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AVLO’s departure from Madrid-Barcelona seemed like another problem for Renfe. He has left us an unexpected winner

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August 2025. The summer had started out average for Renfe and ended even worse. After an exchange of information, Renfe accepted that some Talgo AVRIL trains had suffered cracks in their structures and that they were being taken out of circulation, with the consequent suspension of service. And, of course, that has had consequences for travelers. Goodbye AVLO, goodbye. Everything ended up precipitating in the last days of August but the origin must be sought a few days before. At the end of July, Renfe paralyzed by surprise the sale of tickets for the AVLO service. The news was given from The Economist: AVLO trains had suffered cracks in their cars on the Madrid-Barcelona line. A few days later, Renfe confirmed this fact and began to apply a temporary solution. The idea is that the trains would continue running but reducing traffic speed there where it was believed that the trains had cracked. Some leaked photos Already in August they demonstrated the seriousness of the events. Renfe decided withdraw AVRIL trains of the service. And days later he ended up suspending the AVLOs. September. It was a strange month for Renfe. The company maintained the AVLO service in the early stages, but in the absence of finding a solution, it ended up canceling. relocate passengers of the service low cost of the company on the AVE. That is, a kind of upgrade to travelers who already had their ticket for beyond September 8. That put the company in trouble. Or at least that was the first reading. Since then Renfe does not compete directly against Ouigo and Iryo. Without a cheaper service, the Spanish company was left without the possibility of competing directly against foreign companies. However, it does not appear to have directly affected their results. How has it affected Renfe? If we take into account the latest data from the CNMCwhich refer to the months of July, August and September, we could say nothing or very little. Renfe Viajeros (which adds data from AVLO and AVE) has increased its occupancy by 4%, the number of travelers has increased by 0.6% and they have increased the use of rolling stock by 1.6%. Regarding prices, Renfe has also won. And the company has managed to increase the number of travelers despite an obvious increase in ticket prices. The AVE cost 70.58 euros on average, 13.3% more than in the same period last year and AVLO went to 51.35 euros, repeating the same growth. Retail. But what interests us most about this period is how prices behaved when AVLO was not available. In the month of September, AVLO prices dropped but let’s remember that they were only available for very few days. Instead, Renfe only offered AVE tickets. And they were shot. In September, service prices premium increased to 75.11 euros. It is 11.4% more than the previous month. But above all, it is a price 17.4% higher than that of the same month in 2024 when there were four companies available on the market. Beyond Renfe. Curiously, the one who performed the most in this case has not been Renfe. Iryo is the company that has increased prices the most in this period. With an average ticket price of 63.82 euros, the company seemed to have positioned itself between Ouigo and Renfe, offering an alternative halfway between both services. However, the absence of AVLO in the month of September must have triggered the demand for Ouigo and Iryo. This is the only way to explain why the Italian company raised the prices of its routes to 74.13 euros in that month, just one euro less than the AVE. Year-on-year growth that month reached 83.5%. For its part, Ouigo also raised prices but remained on a somewhat more contained line. In the quarter, the average ticket price was 51.86 euros, which already represents a growth of 20% compared to the previous year. In September, however, prices remained at 52.20 euros, slightly below the month of August but, yes, 30% more expensive than in September 2024. The complete photograph. Expanding on everything that happened, as expected, AVLO’s departure from the Madrid-Barcelona corridor has only increased prices. It is something that we were already beginning to suspect and that was logical if we take into account that it is the corridor with the highest occupation and use of the line. In fact, the latter exceeds 84% ​​and remains around 10% above any other high-speed corridor with liberalized services. It is the perfect environment for passengers dynamic prices suffer. Photo | Xataka and Logan Armstrong In Xataka | Renfe is selling its AVLO for 7 euros in Andalusia: it is the new battlefield in the price war against Ouigo and Iryo

There is only a great beneficiary at Ryanair’s departure from regional airports. One called “High Speed ​​Train”

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Ryanair threatened and fulfilled. As he turned a few months ago. The company confirmed yesterday, September 3, which removes more than one million places from regional airports. In total, its activity will be reduced by 41 % in this type of aerodromes and 10 % of its activity in the Canary Islands will also be affected. The movement has unleashed an wave of indignation among Spanish institutions that qualify the exit as blackmail or extortion. The company, meanwhile, defends itself by ensuring that the increase in Aena’s rates are incompatible with its operations in this type of airports. But what the movement leaves us is the confirmation that regional airports are less and less competitive. A good part of them have based their operations on a huge dependence on the company. And the Good train health It is making operating in them, more and more complicated. A good example is that the company will increase its operations in larger airports. The controversy As we explained yesterday, with its latest Ryanair movement it will reduce 400,000 places in the Canary Islands in winter, being the autonomous community most punished by volume. In total, 36 connections are canceled. It remains to be seen if the flights to the Canary Islands are held by other companies. A good example is the Binter expansion that in recent times it has begun to increase its routes in the connections between peninsular Spain and the islands. In addition, Ryanair has announced the closure of Santiago de Compostela and the suspension of all flights to Vigo as of January 1, 2026. It maintains the closure at the airports of Valladolid and Jerez de la Frontera. And will reduce its operations in Zaragoza (-45 %), Santander (-38 %), Asturias (-16 %) and Vitoria (-2 %). The company attacks Aena and the Government, to whom it accuses of “failing to the Spanish regions, whose airports are almost 70 % empty.” For its part, the airport manager attacks that “the communication and institutional relations policy of Ryanair is guided by Phariseism, bad education and blackmail”, while trying to “falsify reality.” All these words pick them up eldiario.es from the mouth of Maurici Lucena, president and CEO of Aena. The excuse Ryanair has used to abandon or reduce its operations at these airports is at the rise of Aena rates. Those rates are the ones guarantee basic services of airports such as cleaning or safety, to put only some examples. At the moment, there are substantial discounts than in airports with the lowest volume of passengers make them insignificant. On the contrary, where it is paid the most is in the airports of greater volume. That rate has been frozen in recent years but will rise if the CNMC approves it. From the beginning, the company’s opposition has been found. They defend that in countries such as Italy, Morocco or Croatia have been lowered to attract tourism and that, with these increases, “Spain is closing” to the same. A statement that The data denies. According to Aena, The increase is just 68 euro cents By passenger but they put the company that their rates have increased by 21% in the last year. But this is just the surface. Spain is not the only country in which Ryanair has reduced operations. The Irish have also retired more than 700,000 places from the French regional airports. And it is also not accidental that their operations to Morocco travel almost empty. For a long time, the company has exploited institutional advertising to maintain open paths that would not be profitable without these substantial pluses. In fact, that Ryanair trip to Daklha is only explained since The interest that Morocco has in exploiting that areanear the Sahara, as a holiday destination. Ryanair as a symptom And the train as a disease that hurts regional airports. To all of the above we must add the loss in competitiveness of many of the airports of which Ryanair leaves. The company has closed operations in Santiago and reduces its connections in Vigo. Casually there are two cities to which The arrival of high speed is especially affecting. Until not so long ago, the only way to travel quickly between Madrid and Galicia was by plane. Now, the High speed It allows you to reach the center of the capital more or less the same time as you travel by plane. And without the discomforts of this means of transport. In Asturiashigh speed is not yet working in full performance but the opening of new sections (and others on the horizon)place the region in a position where the train, again, will compete with the plane for faster connections. It will remain faster to travel by plane but its connection with Madrid is already competitive by train. What to say about Zaragoza where in recent years Renfe has joined Ouigo and Iroyo. The corridor maintains a hard competition And although the tickets are not the cheapest on the market, the volume of trains is very high and the latest connections already allow Zaragoza to be linked with Galicia in four hours (making transford in Madrid). In addition, the possibilities to get to Seville or Malaga are multiple with the aforementioned Renfe rivals. Eliminate air connections with the main Spanish cities should result in greater use of this means of transport. And from Aena they are clear that reality is “more prosaic.” “Ryanair moves her planes to airports where can set higher prices In their plane tickets and earn more money, such as Great Spanish airports“, despite being” substantially higher, “they insisted on words collected by RTVE. In Santander, where connections with Madrid are not so advanced, four international destinations have been withdrawn (Rome, Milan, Vienna and Paris) but the flights to Valencia and Malaga are maintained. In Santiago, however, connections with other Spanish cities die. And in Vigo he retires from the line he had with London. Casually when the contract ends Between the City Council and the company … Read more

First it was Chema Alonso’s departure. Telefónica is now disassembling your legacy with your team’s goodbye

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After The Pallete eraTelefónica is making profound strategic and human changes. After the recent one Departure from hacker Chema Alonsothe company is disassembling kernel, according to The confidential. This is the project and the team led Alonso, where there were heavyweights of the company, such as Javier Martínez and Paco Montalvo. Company sources have confirmed to Xataka Mobile the departure of both figures. Why it is important. From the hand of Sebas Muriel, ancient CEO of Tuenti, Telefónica is saying goodbye to Kernel, which in 2016 we met as “The fourth platform“And later like Aura. With her, they proposed to create a mechanism where Each user decided if he shared his personal information or demanded compensation. The confidential also speaks of the exits of other key pieces, such as Luiz Medici and Kiko Gámez. Goodbye to Pallete and Chema Alonso’s legacy. The hacker departure in March reminded us of the ambitious path that the company had pursued in the last decade: projects such as the aforementioned fourth platform, The aura wizard, Open Gateway either Movistar Homethe domestic device that came something late to a market that Google and Alexa already dominated globally. Kernel was the project to modernize an archaic operator, the Digital heart of Telefónica, according to Paco Montalvo. Disassembling this team is a farewell to the great technological bets that the company has pursued to compete against the OTT and the great world technological ones. At the time of the indiscriminate management of the data, Telefónica claimed to want to return all control to the user. Something is left. The great responsible for that path are no longer, and the contrast with its substitutes It can’t be bigger. According to El Confidencial, the old team of Chema Alonso remains Antonio Guzmán, Irene Gómez, David del Val and Yaiza Rubio. According to Telefónica sources consulted by Xataka Mobile, Telefónica is reviewing the previous projects to approach the new vision. Despite the obvious dismantling of their pieces, they say that with Kernel there is no definitive decision, waiting for a new strategy that they hope to announce before the end of the year. A new telephone. In his first major public appearance as executive president, Marc Murtra, the substitute for José María Álvarez-Pallete, It was very clear: Telefónica should focus on consolidating and growing to create technological capacity, a more pragmatic and forceful objective than that of digital transformation and collaboration With great technology which had been adopted in the previous stage. Telefónica is facing The largest existential dilemma of its over 100 yearsyou have to choose transform into a technology company In a Europe in decline that seeks to be more autonomous or accept that as a traditional telecus it is immersed in a reality that erodes its margins. The financial sanitation that Pallete achieved was not enough for markets, with a 57%stock market drop. Good news and farewells in 2025. The helm turn brought Good news: The action at three years. And the first steps of the new direction reflect that initial forcefulness of Murtra: in 2025, Telefónica has executed five sales In different countries, and only Brazil remains a strategic market in America. In Spain, a great consolidation for 2026 sounds more and more strongly: the one that would bring a Purchase of Vodafone. The fruit of this fusion is well known: to get more than 45% of the market. Strategically, Telefónica is about to A ‘sorpasso’ itselfone that goes to enter more for services than by communications, the first step to be a diversified technological company and less telecus. At the moment, the services are 43 % of income in their accounts, and grows at a good pace: “in double digit,” according to Emilio Gayo, New CEO of the Teleco. Another good news comes with the rearme: Telefónica already It stays with 69% of defense ICT awards. Outstanding image | Xataka In Xataka | Telefónica has a plan to eat the market in Spain. That is a problem for local operators

At his departure from Valladolid, Ryanair has left an unexpected death injured: airport coffee

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Ryanair’s impact is not only counted by the number of flights he leaves in an airport. Not at least where they are a key piece in the operation of a regional square such as Valladolid, where Its march has reduced by 60% The number of travelers who pass through their facilities. Last January, the company announced that this summer would close operations at the Valladolid airport. The decision entered into the Pressure measures that the company is applying against the government for discrepancies related to the collection of hand suitcases or rates that Aena Cobra for operating in the facilities. This pressure tool translated into a reduction in operations in seven airports. In Vigo, for example, Ryanair has eliminated their seats by 61% available. But the highest figure is not always the one that does the most damage because you have to pay attention to the specific impact that the company has on the airport. And in Valladolid it was huge. So much that the volume of travelers at the city airport has been reduced by 63.2% According to data offered by AENA. But the company’s march not only has a direct impact on the offer of flights that are now available the Valladolid. It impacts the workers of the airport itself. Like those of its cafeteria. Three workers dismissed due to lack of work The story brings it first hand The North of Castile. The local media has interviewed César Carreras, a cafeteria dealer of the Valladolid airport who says that with the march of Ryanair, 80% of the clientele has vanished. In less than a year, Carreras has seen how the airport was emptied without Ryanair’s operations (which stopped operating on March 28) but with The previous flying of Vuelingwhich stopped offering the Valladolid-Barcelona route in June last year. Right now, Binter is the only company that operates the airport but has no daily trips. “This month They only work two days a week“, says the head of the cafeteria. Specifies that travelers have left but that there is also an employee hole, since only four workers of all employees that the company maintained in Valladolid remains in the facilities although performing other work. He explains that only the days that there are flights and just for three hours are exploding to cafeteria because the rest of the day the airport remains practically empty. He explains that now he only works the cafeteria and that he has had to fire three employees. At the moment, it remains in the concession because it would have “problems” to leave it and because it can give the service itself since it has another open business. When Ryanair announced that Valladolid left and Jerez and what reduced its operations I already talked about the decision would leave “Half -empty regional airports” although he blamed the march and reduction of operations to the alleged high rates of Aena. Those Aena rates They are the ones used to maintain the minimum services of an airport (security, cleaning …) and from the company ensure that they are extremely low in regional airports because there are multiple discounts to make them attractive. At the moment, they say, they are operating just two euros per passenger. What has long resonates is the fine that the Ministry of Consumption imposed on Ryanair for the collection of the hand luggage suitcase. For the Government, the allowed dimensions are extremely reduced and do not cover the definition of “essential” to which it obliges European regulations. Consequently imposed a sanction of more than 100 million euros. That fine was the one that precipitated everything, since Ryanair understands that without a more concrete definition he has no reason to let in the cabin that They exceed 40x20x25 cm measures collected in its most basic rate. Therefore, they assure that the collection for the cabin trolley It is perfectly legal. Something that seems, It will be ratified in a few months by the European Union itself. Photo | Fred Rivett and Fahmi Fakhrudin In Xataka | Curves are coming in summer: Ryanair wants more controllers in Spain and if he does not get them there will be delays

“They defamed me in the media”: Martín Anselmi breaks the silence and details his departure from Cruz Azul

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After a controversy that lasted several days, Martin Anselmi was finally announced as the new coach of the Porto. It was through social media that the club reported on the hiring of the Argentine coach. In his presentation speech this Monday from the Do Dragao Stadium, Anselmi He broke his silence on the entire controversy and directly attacked his former team. The 39-year-old coach accused Blue Cross of having lied and defamed in the media. The president of FC Porto, André Villas Boas (L), presents Martin Anselmi as the new coach of FC Porto during the presentation ceremony at the club’s museum in Porto, Portugal, today, January 27, 2025. EFE/ EPA/FERNANDO VELVET Anselmi He also assured that the negotiation with Porto was always known first hand by Blue Cross. According to the Argentine, once the agreement with the Portuguese was closed, they decided to back down and deny him departure. “Nothing that has been said these days reflects the truth, do not buy what they are selling you, they know how they operate and they know it better than me. I made a decision which I considered the best for me and my professional growth. I assume it and take charge, I was the one who took it, but I did it head-on with total transparency towards the club and its leaders without any hesitation,” he began. “They made me a promise that they would let me out. They negotiated, reached an agreement and accepted a proposal from the Porto Football Club. However, when everything was ready to be formalized, they changed the rules of the game, defamed me and dirty me through the media,” he explained. Even Anselmi He revealed that he made a request to the leadership of the ‘Cement Machine’ to organize a press conference to serve as a farewell, but he was not allowed. Likewise, the South American explained that initially his family was going to stay in Mexicobut the situation became so tense that they had to change plans. “Blue Cross You know that I requested a press conference to say goodbye to the fans in Mexicoin the same place where it all began, was not granted. The situation became unsustainable for both me and my family, who although they were going to continue their lives in Mexico“They had to leave suddenly,” he said. Here are the complete words of Martín AnselmiA mother’s mention hurt less. Look what can talk to us from more than 5 thousand kilometers away pic.twitter.com/4pnzP9eJz0 — 𝕏 El Rod ☀️🚂⚽𝕏 (@Rod_lopez) January 27, 2025 Anselmithe second youngest coach in the Conmebol and this Monday he became the fifth Argentine coach in the history of the FC Porto. The strategist comes from winning the South American Cup with Valley Independent in Ecuador. Later, he signed with Blue Cross, where he played striking, aesthetic football with positive results. He took the blue team to the Mexican soccer final, although they could not win it. Anselmi dwill debut this Thursday, January 30, when the Porto be seen with him Maccabi Tel-Aviv in the UEFA Europa League. Keep reading:· Ricardo Ferretti launches harsh criticism against Martín Anselmi for his departure from Cruz Azul· Fernando Ortiz questions the departure of Martín Anselmi from Cruz Azul· Cruz Azul demands that Martín Anselmi return to training

Cruz Azul lost its compass with the departure of Anselmi and added its third game without winning

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It seems that at Blue Cross They took their joy away with the departure of Argentine coach Martín Anselmi, who left the cement producers right away to go and coach FC Porto in Portugal, because this Saturday on matchday 3 they tied 1-1 with the Puebla in their third game without knowing victory. A result that shows that blue turned into gray without the driver who in the last two tournaments led them to achieve glory in the MX League with a runner-up finish and a semifinal in the Clausura and Apertura 2024 tournaments, but without achieving the maximum achievement. Because it could be said that people leave and institutions staybut with what the light blue team showed today with the Uruguayan Vicente Sánchez on the bench replacing Anselmi, it opened a range of questions that make us fear the worst for Cruz Azul with a large roster of players, but that gives the impression that They ripped out the soul with the departure of their coach. This allowed Puebla without much brilliance to get a very productive draw by simply putting the dagger between their teeth to dispute each ball with the celestials as if it were the last thing they had left of breath, but in the end with the goal from Uruguayan Emiliano Gómez they got a point from a very complicated field. Breathless and eager Without exaggeration and keeping the proportions, the way Cruz Azul assumed the match against Puebla It gave the impression that they did not want to be on the field of the University Olympic stadium, which to make matters worse left in the air the idea that it is a stage that does not suit the celestials and that their fans feel uncomfortable in that setting. Thus, Cruz Azul, although it took the lead on the scoreboard one minute into the game with the goal of Argentine Lorenzo Faravelli, was never able to maintain a rhythm that could guarantee a favorable result, especially because After his annotation he allowed Puebla to take over the shares and even put them in Puebla. The problem did not lie in what Argentine Pablo Guede’s team did, but rather what Cruz Azul failed to do, which with Vicente Sánchez on the bench wanted to invent a line of four where the players never felt comfortable. and they were the worst 44 minutes since a year ago for the Celeste Machine in the first half. Because Rotondi was put in the midfield and not on the wing where he is very dangerous, while Jorge Sánchez, Gonzalo Piovi, Willer Ditta and Omar Campos never settled in at the back, while in midfield with Lorenzo Faravelli, Carlos Rodríguez, Ignacio Rivero and Carlos Rotondi, they did not fit in either. The lack of rhythm meant that Gabriel “Toro” Fernández and Ángel Sepúlveda were decoration pieces and never generated danger up front. facilitating the work of the people of Puebla who in the first half were masters and lords of the actions. It was not enough for the Machine In the second half, the new coach made moves with Luka Romero and Erik Lira in the attack by Ángel Sepúlveda and Omar Campos, returning to his line of three, where Rotondi returned to the left sector to combine with the debutant Luka Romero, causing the first 15 minutes of the complementary part to give the impression of being the old Cruz Azul. But then Puebla closed the roads and made the Machine seem inoperative to open a trail of doubts about the true capacity of Cruz Azul and if these 70 million that they have spent on reinforcements will be the key to fighting for the title. For now it seems that the hangover after the emotional blow of Anselmi’s abandonment is weighing more than necessary and facing the duel with Necaxa The worst is predicted on date 4 where they have to visit the house of the hydrocalides, Continue reading:– Cruz Azul announces the official signing of the Polish Mateusz Bogusz– Cruz Azul sues Martín Anselmi and could ruin his arrival at Porto– They assure that the Cruz Azul board investigates Iván Alonso for the departure of Anselmi

Cruz Azul sends a statement to Martín Anselmi after his departure from Mexico

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The Cruz Azul Machine does not want to accept the resignation of Martín Anselmi in the middle of the Clausura 2025 tournament of the MX League to sign a contract with Porto from Portugal and for this reason they informed him that he will have big problems if he does not appear this Friday at the facilities of the Aztec organization for the usual training sessions. The information was made known by the club through a statement posted on its social networks in which they urged the coach and his technical team to report to the cement training center; They also informed him that if he did not attend, they would break an important rule of his contract. “It has caught our attention, given that you have a current contract, duly registered with the Mexican Soccer Federation, and on which there is no early termination agreement, nor a transfer agreement with a third club,” the text says. “By virtue of the above, you are requested to immediately return to your work, especially with a tournament in progress, and to comply with your contractual commitments. In the event that you do not show up at the Club Cruz Azul facilities tomorrow… your conduct will be taken as a breach of your Sports Employment Contract,” adds the statement sent to Martín Anselmi. Words from the DT For its part, Martin Anselmi He was captured this Thursday night at the Mexico City airport to leave the country and head to Portugal to sign his new contract as coach of Porto in the midst of negotiations that the club is carrying out to announce his signing. In statements to the various media, he highlighted that he had to travel to Europe to be able to finalize the details of his new contract that will allow him to join one of the most iconic clubs on the old continent. “They told me from Porto that there is an agreement and that only a few details need to be resolved”he expressed in the words he had moments before boarding the plane. Keep reading: –Father of James Rodríguez highlights his quality: “It will be impossible to match”–Soccer matches today, live: time and TV of what you can see this Friday, January 24–Luka Romero is willing to play with the Mexican team

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