Renfe will start operating daily on the Lyon route on September 1 and on the Marseille route on October 1
MADRID, 13 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The AVE to France, with the Barcelona-Lyon and Madrid-Marseille routes, celebrates this Sunday, August 13, a month of activity reaching 100,000 tickets sold.
Renfe inaugurated the new AVE routes between Barcelona-Lyon on July 13 and Madrid-Marseille two weeks later, a period in which 43,000 people have already traveled on these new services, the entity’s first solo services in a international connection.
The average occupancy already exceeds 80% and has reached 100% on dates of high mobility, as Renfe has indicated in a statement, in which it has advanced that due to this good progress it will begin to operate daily on the route from Lyon on September 1 and on the Marseille route on October 1.
Renfe put its international offer on sale on June 21 to travel until October 31 with an introductory offer that allows you to travel between ten French cities for only nine euros.
Likewise, it put two prices on offer for international routes, 19 euros to travel from Montpellier or Narbonne to Barcelona, Zaragoza or Madrid, and 29 euros for the complete route, the connection from Marseille and Lyon with Spain.
Specifically, the AVE service between Barcelona and Lyon connects the stations of Barcelona Sants, Girona, Figueres Vilafant, Perpignan, Narbonne, Béziers, Montpellier-St-Roch, Nîmes, Valence TGV and Lyon Part Dieu. The route leaves Barcelona at 8:22 in the morning and returns from Lyon at 2:30 in the afternoon, with a travel time of about five hours.
On the other hand, the AVE service on the Madrid-Marseille route connects the intermediate stations of Guadalajara Yebes, Zaragoza Delicias, Camp de Tarragona, Barcelona Sants, Girona, Figueres Vilafant, Perpignan, Narbonne, Béziers, Montpellier-St-Roch, Nîmes, Avignon-TGV, Aix-en-Provence TGV and Marseille-St Charles.
Between Barcelona and Nimes, a route shared by the two lines, Renfe already has four frequencies that allow a combination of schedules and travel times that attracts AVE trains to the public on both sides of the border.
The international connection involves travel times by AVE such as Barcelona-Nimes in three hours, Figueras-Montpellier in two hours, Barcelona-Avignon in four hours, Girona-Marseille in four hours, Madrid-Perpignan in four hours and 30 minutes, or Zaragoza -Nimes in five hours and 25 minutes, as detailed by Renfe.
