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Started the high season end of year trip, Iberia announced that it has recovered all its pre-pandemic capacity.
Specific, the season spans from 29 October to 25 March and, in this last quarter of 2022 Iberia will operate a 95 percent of its capacity. Already in the first quarter of 2023 and thanks to the arrival of new planes, Iberia will experience growth 105 percent of its capacity 2019 what, overall for the season, will result in an offer that already matches the network of flights and frequencies offered before the pandemic.
Recovery of Iberia capacity
As most notable events, Iberia has already reestablished its entire network of flights and destinations in Latin America, grows in USA with the route to Dallas, and will carry out greater deployment on several routes of its short and medium-haul network in Spain and Europe. This is the breakdown by market:
- Rio de Janeiro, Caracas and Mexico, protagonists in Latin America
Iberia has already recovered one hundred percent of its network in Latin America with direct flights to Rio de Janeiro and Caracas, the last two destinations that remained pending after the pandemic, and with three weekly frequencies on each of the routes.
On Mexico It is also growing and will be the market with the greatest offer with three daily flights, along with Bogotá - which grows 10 a 14 weekly frequencies-, and Buenos Aires where Iberia consolidates the two daily flights this season.
In Santiago de Chile, Lima, Sao Paulo and Santo Domingo the daily flight will be maintained, just like in San José de Costa Rica that, starting in december, consolidates the seven weekly frequencies.
Montevideo will also have a daily flight starting in January, Panama with six weekly flights; and Havana and Puerto Rico with four weekly frequencies.
The other most relevant destinations in this market are: the Guatemala-El Salvador route, which also recovers the seven flights, Quito with six and Guayaquil with three others, total nine flights with Ecuador.
With everything, Iberia will add this winter close to 260 Weekly flights with the region - mostly daily- that unite Europe with 18 destinations in 16 Latin American countries.
15 percent more capacity in the United States
USA continues to gain prominence in the Iberia network and, for the coming winter months, has increased its capacity with respect to 2019. Specific, has planned an offer of 589.000 seating, which represents an increase in 15 percent with respect to 2019, and around 2.000 flights, a 21 percent more than in the pre-pandemic winter.
in addition, Iberia incorporates new destinations and will maintain flights to Dallas during the winter season. Although they were initially launched to operate only in summer, They will continue during the winter with three weekly frequencies.
In addition to that, Iberia increases its presence in several US destinations compared to last winter, when travel restrictions from Europe were not lifted until November. On Miami, will go from 10 a 14 weekly frequencies -two daily flights- and in New York, from 10 a 13 weekly frequencies, that will increase to 14 already in the month of March.
The Iberia program in USA is complemented by three weekly flights to Boston, another three to The Angels and another five weekly flights to Chicago.
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