Il Frecciarossa 1000 is ready to travel in Spain. The FS Italiane Group, through iryo, the subsidiary of Trenitalia in Spain, from Sunday 18 Settembre kicks off ticket sales on the Spanish high-speed route between Madrid, Barcelona and Zaragoza. The first trips – explains a note – are scheduled for next November 25, while from December 16, iryo will offer trips between Madrid, Valencia and Cuenca and, in the first quarter of 2023, the connection to the south will arrive in the cities of Seville, Malaga and Cordoba . In June 2023, Alicante and Albacete will be the additional cities to be reached by iryo's Frecciarossa. In addition, there will be agreements with taxi services and other means of public transport in the main Spanish cities to start and complete your journey.
Iryo will be able to count on 20 Frecciarossa 1000s
In Spain, people will travel on 20 new Frecciarossa 1000s, identical to those circulating in Italy and built by Hitachi in the Pistoia plant. These are more new generation trains be sustainable, which have obtained the Environmental Impact Certification: they are recyclable almost completely 95%) and allow for savings of 80% of carbon dioxide per passenger each way. Once fully operational, the Spanish project will generate about 2.000 new jobs between direct and related jobs.
The launch on the Madrid-Barcelona section represents the milestone of a process started in November 2019 with the assignment by Adif, manager of the Iberian railway infrastructure, of 30% of the connections on the HS network; an offer second only to Renfe, the Spanish national operator.
FS Italiane in Europe: France, UK, Greece, Germany and Holland
The Group is already present in France with Trenitalia France and connections on the Paris – Lyon – Milan route, in Spruce Brittany with Avanti West Coast and c2c, in Greece with Hellenic Train through medium and long distance connections, as well as urban and suburban ones in Athens, in Germany with Netinera, regional transport operator, and in Netherlands with Qbuzz, road transport operator.
