Source: Iberia

  • 21% more flights and 15% more seats
  • The airline will maintain its flights to Dallas through the winter. And, from June, it will operate a daily flight
  • Miami and New York will see an increase in frequencies
  • In the summer season, flights to Los Angeles will be operated by A350 aircraft, which provide greater capacity
  • Iberia’s commitment to the United States also reaches the world of culture. Iberia and El Corte Inglés join the Teatro Real to promote Spanish music at Carnegie Hall in New York
  • In addition, the airline, together with its partner American Airlines, sponsors “Authentic Flamenco” on its tour in New York, Dallas and Washington DC, as part of its Talent on Board project

The United States is one of Iberia’s priority markets, and this will be particularly noticeable over the coming months. The US is the country where the airline deploys its greatest capacity; this summer it offered flights to eight destinations: Dallas and Washington DC – where it debuted its routes in June 2022-, New York, Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles, Boston and San Francisco, as well as Puerto Rico.

Additionally, in the upcoming winter season, which begins on 29 October, it will offer more frequencies and seats than it did in the same period of 2019. It scheduled an offer of 589,000 seats, which represents an increase of 15% compared to 2019, and around 2,000 flights, 21% more than the year before the pandemic.

Likewise, Iberia announced updates to its destinations. The flights to Dallas, which were initially launched to operate this summer, will be maintained during the winter season, initially with three weekly frequencies, which will gradually increase to daily flights starting in June.

These flights will be operated with greater-capacity A330 aircraft equipped with Business, Premium Economy and Economy cabins, providing customers with an optimised travel experience.

Dallas is the main hub for flights for American Airlines, a partner of Iberia, British Airways, Finnair and Aer Lingus in the agreement for the operation of routes between Europe and the North Atlantic, which has contributed to generating enough traffic to maintain this route even in winter.

In addition, Iberia grows in several US destinations compared to last winter, when the restrictions for travel from Europe were not lifted until November. In Miami it will go from 10 to 14 weekly frequencies -two daily flights- and in New York, from 10 to 13 weekly frequencies, reaching 14 in March.

There will also be increased flights to Los Angeles, which, from the start of the summer season, in April 2023, will be operated with A350 aircraft, which offer greater capacity and are 30% to 35% more efficient thanks to their state-of-the-art components, and the advanced design of their Rolls-Royce Trent XWB engines.

Summary of Frequencies for the Winter Season

  • Dallas: 3 weekly flights. Daily from June 2023, in the summer season
  • Los Angeles: 3 weekly flights
  • New York: between 12 and 14 weekly flights depending on the month
  • Miami: 2 daily flights
  • Chicago: between 5 and 7 weekly flights depending on the month
  • Boston: between 3 and 5 weekly flights depending on the month
  • Puerto Rico: 4 weekly flights
  • Washington DC: seasonal route that will be resumed from March, coinciding with the start of the summer season
  • San Francisco: seasonal route, which will restart in May, in the summer season

Promotion of Spanish Talent with the Teatro Real

Iberia’s commitment to the United States extends to the world of culture. On 15 September, the Teatro Realwill offer a concert at New York’s Carnegie Hall, bringing its orchestra to America for the first time, in an event sponsored by the airline and the El Corte Inglés chain of department stores.

In addition, Iberia, together with its partner American Airlines, takes part in the promotion of Spanish talent in the United States with its sponsorship of the Authentic Flamenco Show, supporting it on a tour which will stop in three of the destinations offered by the airline in the US, New York, Washington DC and Dallas.

The New York premiere will be attended by Iberia’s president, Javier Sánchez-Prieto, Juan Cierco, its Corporate Director, and Gemma Juncá, its Marketing and Brand Director, as well as personalities such as Juan Carlos Calderón, Natalia Millán and Silvia Marsó, who have recently joined Iberia’s Talent on Board project, with which the airline seeks to support Spanish talent, in Spanish, in all its facets: art, sport, culture, gastronomy and R&D&i, in the 50 countries to which it flies.