High-speed AVE €25 offer brought forward to Sunday, July 9
Saturday, July 8, 2017 @ 9:46 PM
RAIL board RENFE has started early for this month's 25th anniversary ticket sales: from midnight tonight (Saturday), a total of 35,000 one-way trips on the high-speed AVE line will be up for grabs for just €25.
This year, to mark the quarter-century of the AVE – which is capable of covering distances of around 400 kilometres in 90 minutes – RENFE will put 25,000 tickets on sale at €25 on the 25th of every month.
But after the first few months crashed the rail board's server and it was forced to increase the band width, and then all 25,000 were snapped up before daylight, RENFE has had to make its offer more generous.
To cope with passengers buying tickets at the same time – with up to 1,000 a minute going at one point – RENFE had to issue over 35,000 since literally hundreds paying for theirs right in the same split second meant 40% of them were double-booked.
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