Costa del Sol • Issue No. 2063 • 16 - 22 January 2025
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OUIGO, the French lowcost train operator, has just started its price-beating low-cost fares from Malaga to Madrid for as low as €9 per ticket. It took six years in applications and studies, but finally the high-speed operator is underway in the Costa del Sol capital. The official inauguration took place in María Zambrano station on Wednesday, January 15, with the first Ouigo train leaving the station on Thursday, January 16, for Madrid with one stop in Cordoba. For the moment there are two one-way trips from Malaga to Madrid and two back. In total, 14,000 weekly places are available, as they are trains with two floors and a much larger passenger capacity than their competition in Renfe, Avlo, and Iryo. Ouigo is working with Adif, the rail-track managers, to increase frequency and hopes to have a third daily and return journey later in the year. The company only began selling tickets for their
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Ouigo trains launch cheapest tickets to the capital
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first trips and has already sold 80 per cent of them for the second half of January. Even though Renfe’s AVE and their lower-cost Avlo, as well as the Italian-owned Iryo, had been fighting a price war on tickets, Ouigo is a price game-changer for Malaga. The journey takes under three hours and carries passengers to Atocha, right in the beating heart of the Spanish capital, at
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a lower price than all the competition. Other destinations from Ouigo lined up to start in the coming years include a direct route to Sevilla and eventually all the way to Barcelona.
The opening ceremony ended with fireworks and was attended by the president of the Diputación de Malaga, Francisco Salado, and the mayor of Malaga, among others.
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