A total of 1.7 million passengers used Renfe’s high-speed rail services and long distance trains for their journeys during the Christmas holidays, representing an increase of 11% compared to the similar period of the previous year.
Thus, from 20 December 2024 to 7 January 2025, a total of 1.7 million passengers used AVE, Avlo, Alvia, Euromed, Intercity and AVE International trains for their journeys, which meant 171,400 more passengers than during the Christmas holidays of 2023-2024.
By corridors, the largest increase of passenger number was recorded in the North with 362,500 travellers, almost 100,000 more (37.6% more) than during the Christmas holidays of the previous year. The North corridor is providing connections between Galicia, Castilla y León and Asturias with Madrid.
But the corridor most used by travellers has been the South, recording a growth of 17.7% representing registering 64,000 more travellers, reaching to with almost 426,000 passengers, compared to Christmas 2023-2024. This is placing the second fastest growing corridor. For its part, the Levante Corridor, which links Valencia, Castellón, Alicante and Murcia with Madrid, increased its number of travellers by 23,000, 9.1% more.
For these holidays, Renfe offered nearly 2 million seats on nearly 5,800 AVE, Avlo, Alvia, Euromed, Intercity and AVE International trains for travel during the Christmas holidays, from 20 December to 7 January. This represented an increase of 186,000 seats, 10.3% more than in the same period last year.
Renfe Viajeros has increased its gross operating profit (Ebitda) at the end of the 2024 financial year to EUR 338 million euros, a figure 17% higher than that obtained during the whole of 2023 (EUR 289 million).
The contribution of the high-speed corridors that link Madrid with Catalonia, Andalusia and the Valencian Community has been particularly significant, although in the latter case the commercial operation was conditioned by the effects of the storm Dana, which forced the suspension of the high-speed service between October 29 and November 14.
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