Renfe maintains at the moment ten trains leaving from A Coruña spread out between morning and afternoon. The schedules chosen by the public company are not to the liking of some users and of unions such as CC.OO. and CGT, who criticize that they are not designed for workers. Renfe argues that the occupation does not reach 40%.
The first trains leave A Coruña at 7 and 8 in the morning and arrive from Vigo and Santiago at 8:30 and 9:20, that is, when the majority of workers have already started their working day. Some rare and out-of-hours frequencies that CGT asks to rectify to adapt them to reality, as Alberto Díaz explains: “They are compulsory public service lines that allow mobility in certain segments of the population, RENFE is receiving subsidies for these trips and it has to guarantee them. The economic profitability of the passenger railway is complicated. “
As confirmed by Renfe to this writing, in Media Distancia in Galicia the demand of travelers has been 36% in relation to that of the same month during the past year. Renfe has acted “according to the criteria that have been delimited by the state of alarm and the reduction in demand.”
On the question of Hotel train to Madrid or Barcelona, In the short term, Renfe does not consider putting them back into service. Renfe will recover its train offer with priority to those services “that can give it higher occupancy rates on trains”.
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