From the Pink City to Las Ramblas in an hour's flight. The Spanish low-cost airline Vueling is launching a new route between Toulouse and Barcelona, from July 1, BFMTV reported. Enough to annoy environmentalists: less than 350 km separate the two cities.
⚠️ @vueling anuncia una nueva ruta entre Barcelona y Toulouse.
▪️ From 1 de julio de 2023.
▪️ 3 vuelos semanales (-2--5-7).
▪️ Operará con mix de Airbus A319/A320 de 144/180 plazas.
▪️ Nuevo destino para Barcelona-El Prat.
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— Aeroinfo Barcelona-El Prat (@AeroinfoBCN) May 9, 2023
Tickets on sale on the Vueling website range from 22.9 to 79.9 euros one way. Three connections per week are currently displayed. The Spanish company is the only one to offer a direct flight between these two cities.
A direct train buried with Covid
More ecological, a direct train connected the two metropolises in three hours until 2021 - allow four hours for a car ride. This line, opened in 2013, had closed during the health crisis and has never reopened. The SNCF and its Spanish equivalent Renfe had deemed the number of passengers insufficient.
But the Occitanie region and the two cities are calling for its recovery. "In a context where the fight against climate change is a priority, we are convinced that such a link is essential," said in March the mayor of Toulouse, Jean-Luc Moudenc, quoted by the Dépêche du midi.
The fastest train journey today takes almost four hours and requires a change in Narbonne.