To board the

Renfe

low cost

train

, just look for the purple AVLO banner, it is not necessary to look at the screens.

It is like the Ouigo de France (its low cost AVE), that there is no assigned boarding gate and the banner is placed on the platform depending on the departures.

The suitcase is measured in a trolley before boarding, following the model of airlines such as Ryanair.

In the trains, once inside, there is no business class, only tourist, nor is there a cafeteria, but there is a vending area, with machines.

If the passenger brings more than one suitcase, he has to pay for it.

Also if you want to change your ticket, cancel it or choose a seat

.

The wifi, yes, is included.

There are more seats, precisely because there is no cafeteria and because the trains have been remodeled to accommodate more passengers.

Renfe made

its first test trip

this Wednesday

with AVLO passengers

, the

low cost

High Speed ​​train

, which

will start rolling from June 23

on the Madrid-Barcelona-Figueres route.

The premiere takes place more than a year late, as it had to be postponed when the pandemic broke out.

Prices

Prices start at seven euros

(five for minors), two euros below what was initially announced, and at most they may cost 65 euros.

This means that it

could happen that the low cost train ticket was even more expensive than that of a

normal

AVE

.

They can be purchased on the website, at the counter and at travel agencies.

"The pricing system is dynamic, so that

the best price is assigned at all times,

" Francisco Arteaga, director of Renfe's High Speed ​​and Commercial Services business area, explained to journalists aboard the first AVLO.

These trains fit more passengers

.

They are so-called 112 trains, which are the most modern in the fleet, but they have been remodeled so that they have more capacity: 438 seats each.

It is 20% more seats compared to the trains of this series.

They are zero-emission vehicles and will run on 100% electricity from renewable sources.

French competition

At the moment it will begin to circulate with five.

The seats are for two seats, although

from 2022 new trains will be incorporated (the 106) that will have seats of three

.

And it is that for a train of this type to be profitable with tickets in this price range it has to have an occupancy of approximately 80%, something complicated right now, with the restrictions on mobility that exist.

"As passenger demand increases, more units will be added," Arteaga explained.

Tickets for the first trips went on sale in January and

200,000 have already been sold,

about 6,000 in the first 24 hours, according to the company.

From 2022 AVLO will also travel to Seville and Valencia.

In 2013, the French company SNCF

launched Ouigo, the low-cost TGV (High Speed) service.

In this time they have already moved 60 million travelers and sell tickets for 15 and 20 euros.

The French will begin operating in Spain on May 10 (when the state of alarm in Spain ends) with prices

between 10 and 25 euros,

although it did a promotional campaign with one-euro bills.

The idea is to compete with Renfe

on the section from the north of the Pyrenees, now that the rail service has been liberalized in Spain.

The French company SNCF obtained authorization in November 2019 to enter the high-speed market in Spain, when the market was opened to competition.

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