The company will start its commercial activities on Friday the 25th on the Madrid-Barcelona line and two weeks later it will start with the Madrid-Valencia route
The first Iryo train (consisting of the Valencian Air Nostrum, Trenitalia and Globalvia) officially started rolling this Monday, becoming the third high-speed operator in Spain by joining Renfe (with AVE and Avlo) and Ouigo (which opened on the Valencia Line Madrid on October 7). And it has done so on the Madrid-Valencia link, on what has been the company’s maiden voyage, “the realization of a dream”, as the president of Iryo and Air Nostrum, Carlos Bertomeu, noted at the welcome ceremony that took place this Monday at Joaquín Sorolla station.
“Iryo is a new way of understanding mobility, focusing on the customer experience and that, from an intermodality point of view, the travel experience is friendly and incredible,” he added in his speech, thanking the road taken by his partners Trenitalia and Globalvia .
The new high-speed operator has a fleet of new trains (the Frecciarossa 1000), 20 state-of-the-art units manufactured by Hitachi Rail in collaboration with Bombardier (now the Alstom group), in which it has invested EUR 800 million and which, according to Bertomeu, are “the most technology train running in Europe”. Iryo will operate 30% of high-speed frequencies in Spain and aims to carry eight million passengers. For the connection between Valencia and Madrid, the target is set at 1.25 million passengers.
The event was attended by Transport Minister Raquel Sánchez; the President of the Generalitat, Ximo Puig; the Minister of Territorial Policy, Rebeca Torró; the president of Adif, María Luisa Domínguez; next to Iryo’s general manager, Víctor Bañares. Industry representatives also participated, such as Diego Lorente, CEO of AVE; o Pilar Caro and Manuel Broseta, respectively director and president of the Conexus Foundation, among others.
The company will begin its commercial operations this Friday the 25th with the Madrid-Zaragoza-Barcelona link, but it had wanted the inaugural trip between Madrid and Valencia, where it would officially start on December 16, including a stop in Cuenca.
Already in 2023, on March 31, the connections with Seville, Malaga, Antequera and Córdoba will be launched. Finally, on June 2, he arrives in Alicante and Albacete.
Tickets for all its destinations are already on sale from 18 euros. The Iryo trains, such as those of Ouigo and some AVE trains (currently going to Alicante), have Chamartín as their reference station in Madrid, immersed in a process of rebuilding and expansion.
Source: La Verdad
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