And if your response is “ah but rail firms will add more capacity”, I’d point you to Thalys that hasn’t upped capacity in 2 decades despite rising demand and sky high prices. And SNCF that runs just 2 TGVs to Barcelona a day. Both easy to solve, both not done.

@jon How does Renfe's new BCN-Lyon service factor into all of this? Obviously not much right now (are they still only at 1 train per day?), but Renfe, despite their bad record on the subject MAD-BCN, is expressing interest in adding frequencies BCN-Lyon, and eventually extending their trains Part Dieu-GdL. Which is significantly more interest than SNCF has offered lately.

@jon @SicTransitPHL Also nice that Marseille-Madrid is back, even if 1 train per day is way too little. And I've never seen such a bad ticket purchasing website as Renfe's, I had to book through Trainline.