Iberia Airlines will recover its pre-pandemic level of activity in the next winter season

Iberia Airlines will recover its pre-pandemic level of activity in the next winter season

Madrid: Iberia is already finalizing its 2022-2023 winter program, which begins on October 30 and that will run until March 25 of next year. The airline this winter has scheduled the same capacity that it offered before the pandemic.

Bet on Latin America

Iberia reopened direct flights to Rio de Janeiro and Caracas and, starting in November, it offers three weekly frequencies on each of the routes.

The airline continues its growth in Havana, which goes from three to five weekly frequencies, the Guatemala-El Salvador route, from five to seven weekly frequencies, and Quito six weekly flights are consolidated, to which other three with Guayaquil.

Mexico continues to be the market with the greatest offer, along with Bogotá and Buenos Aires, where the airline will consolidate the two daily flights this winter season. In Santiago de Chile, Lima and Sao Paulo it maintains a daily flight, as does San José in Costa Rica, which also goes from six to seven weekly frequencies. Montevideo and Panama will have six weekly flights and Puerto Rico with four operations throughout the winter.    

Dallas also in winter

In the US, the main novelty is the extension of the operation with Dallas that the airline initially launched to operate this summer until October 29. In Miami, it will go from 10 to 14 weekly frequencies -two daily flights- and in New York, from 10 to 13 weekly frequencies that will reach 14 in March already.

More capacity in the short and medium-haul

In Europe, The Airline concentrates efforts in Italy where it will grow with seven frequencies in Milan (from 28 to 35 weekly flights) and Rome, with four more frequencies and 37 weekly flights. At both destinations, it will offer an average of five daily flights in each direction.

In Portugal, Iberia grows in Lisbon up to 40 weekly flights (up to six daily flights) and will offer its route to Funchal all winter with three weekly frequencies. 

Geneva, Brussels and Bordeaux are other corporate routes on which Iberia will strengthen its capacity. In Geneva it will reach 34 weekly frequencies (up to five daily flights), in Brussels, it will increase its offer up to three daily frequencies, and in Bordeaux Iberia Regional / Air Nostrum will also increase its offer up to three daily frequencies.

In Spain, Iberia, Iberia Express and Iberia Regional/Air Nostrum will offer a flight program focused on business traffic and on the Balearic and Canary Islands.

Iberia recovers in the winter season and all its operations on the Madrid-Barcelona Air Shuttle prior to the pandemic with 87 weekly frequencies and up to 15 daily flights in each direction.

And it has also grown in Bilbao with up to six daily flights; in La Coruña, Asturias , and Vigo , where they will offer up to four daily flights; and Santiago , Santander and San Sebastián , with three daily flights already.

Iberia Expres will increase its capacity in the Balearic Islands by around 49% compared to the same period in 2019-20, with particularly significant growth on the Madrid-Ibiza route. In the Canary Islands, it has scheduled around 28% more capacity, especially in Tenerife, Lanzarote and La Palma and exceeding one million seats.

Iberia Express will also strengthen its flight program to other national destinations such as Malaga and Seville , and international destinations such as Copenhagen, Dublin, Berlin and Lyon.