The bird has ceased to be punctual. That is something that, seen what has been seen in recent months, It could be intuited. Today there are reliable and official data that support that statement. And is that Renfe has published The first punctuality report of its AVE, Long Distance and Avant services. This report, which corresponds to the month of June and will have a monthly periodicity, reveals interesting data on the amount of journeys and, above all, their punctuality. The result leaves no doubt: the bird is usually late.
The report. Or rather, the reports, because there are three: Ave and long distance, Medium distance and Avant. Linked the corresponding PDFS can be found. According to the Minister of Transportation, Oscar Puenteit is an exercise of “transparency” whose objective is that “the real punctuality and incidents that occur” can be known with the maximum detail. And what do the infomes say? We go in parts.


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Ave and long distance. It is no secret that the bird does not go through its best moment: infrastructure problems, roads in poor condition, robberies, fires and, ultimately, all kinds of hardships that, without a doubt, have played against. June has been the second month with the highest average delay, only surpassed by April (20.9 minutes). In summary:
- TRAYS MADE IN JUNE: 9,607.
- TRAYS WITH FIVE MINUTES OR LESS: 3,477 trains.
- TRACKS with up to 15 minutes of delay or less: 1,824 trains.
- TRACKS with up to half an hour of delay or less: 882 trains.
- TRACKS with up to an hour of delay or less: 307 trains.
- Medium delay in June: 19 minutes.
- Average delay of the first half of the year: 17.6 minutes.


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Medium distance. Nor are medium distance paths save. June has been the second month of the year with greater delays, only surpassed by March and its 15.4 minutes. The summary is as follows:
- TRACKS MADE IN JUNE: 6.152.
- TRAYS WITH FIVE MINUTES OR LESS: 2,347 trains.
- TRAYS WITH up to 15 minutes of delay or less: 927 trains.
- TRAYS WITH HALF HOUR OF DELAY OR LESS: 345 trains.
- TRACKS with up to an hour of delay or less: 122 trains.
- Average delay in June: 15 minutes.
- Average delay of the first half of the year: 12.8 minutes.
Avant. Within that delays have also made Mella in Avant, it is the modality that comes best in the report. The average delay is only 10 minutes, more or less half than high speed. June you have been the worst month of the year, but the figures are quite better than in the other two options:
- TRAYS MADE IN JUNE: 4,151.
- TRAYS WITH FIVE MINUTES OF DELAY OR LESS: 706 trains.
- TRACKS with up to 15 minutes of delay or less: 248 trains.
- TROUPS WITH Up to half an hour of delay or less: 118 trains.
- TRAYS WITH A HOUR OF DELAY OR LESS: 26 trains.
- Average delay in June: 10 minutes.
- Average delay of the first half of the year: 8.8 minutes.


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What happened? That 2025 has been a year of penance for high Spanish speed. Accidents and problems the most diverse They have resulted in a series of delays, of several hours in the worst cases. Investment in modernizing and improving infrastructure It seems necessary And, in that sense, The proposal is on the table: 400 million euros that will allocate to the maintenance of roads and infrastructure (viaducts, tunnels ….), “of the 10,300 kilometers of railway lines of the conventional network and the 1,200 kilometers of the metric width network”. The execution period is 24 months.
Renfe already covered his back. It should be remembered that on July 1, 2024 Renfe changed his commitment of punctuality. Renfe, who until last year returned the full amount of the ticket if the bird arrived 60 minutes late, the margin uploaded to 90 minutes. From 60 minutes, only half of the important one is returned, when the limit was 30 minutes before. The conditions also worsened in the middle distance and Avant.
With these conditions, only in June Renfe has saved 6% of the refunds that, before the entry into force of the new conditions last year, I would have had to execute.
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