Looking at AENA statistics for the air competition in previous years, I find a curious pattern. While there was almost no traffic between Barcelona and Montpellier and 20-30,000 between Barcelona and Toulouse, the traffic between Barcelona and Nice has exploded from a few tens of thousands to almost 200,000 last year. Sadly I can't find rail statistics, but it should have been minimal, the main alternative must have been road.

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}