San Pablo airport was extended and upgraded at the same time as the AVE was built to link Madrid to Seville, where a fancy new station was built for the AVE (Santa Justa?).
Barcelona would have made more sense for several reasons. Greater traffic, and the possibility of linking up with the rest of the European High Speed rail network, which is only being done now. The Olympics were held in BCN in 1992, but the Catalan capital had no AVE service until 2008 or thereabouts.
Ostensibly, the Sevilla link was built for EXPO in 1992.
Felipe Gonzalez, was PM of Spain at that time, is from Seville.
?Casualidad, o una historia de enchufados y corrupcion?
