For the winter season, which in the airline industry began on October 30 and runs through March 30, 2024, Iberia Express has scheduled 10% more capacity than in 2022, and 12% more than in 2019.
“This winter we will continue to grow and deploy a historic capacity. In these more than 10 years of Iberia Express, it has been demonstrated that our hybrid model, a pioneer in the airline industry, is very efficient to compete with low cost on point-to-point routes and effective to nourish Iberia’s long-haul network, offering connecting flights and a Business service that is highly valued by our customers,” said Isabel Rodríguez, commercial director of Iberia Express.
320 weekly flights with the Canary Islands
The airline’s most important market will be the Canary Islands, where it consolidates its leadership on routes with Madrid and has concentrated more than 40% of the 3.5 million seats it will offer in the coming months. This winter, Iberia Express will add 1.4 million seats in the Canary Islands, 12% more than in 2022.
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The airline is growing in all its destinations: Gran Canaria, Tenerife, Lanzarote, Fuerteventura and La Palma, and has scheduled 320 weekly flights with Madrid, with special focus on routes with Gran Canaria (eight daily flights each way) and Tenerife (nine flights each way). In Lanzarote it will increase to three daily flights, in Fuerteventura it will offer two daily flights, and in La Palma between one and two daily flights.
Big bet on Ibiza in winter
The Balearic Islands is another strategic market for Iberia Express and, this winter, it will exceed 560,000 seats -10% more than in 2022-, which are concentrated in Mallorca and Ibiza. In Mallorca, the airline will have six daily flights in each direction, and in Ibiza it will exceed 210,000 seats, 36% more than last year. The company will add one more frequency on this island to 25 weekly, which means operating between three and four daily flights.
25% more capacity on international destinations
In total, Iberia Express will offer 23 routes this winter, 13 of them international, as part of its strategy to diversify its capacity to new markets. Outside Spain, it will increase its capacity by nearly 25% compared to 2022 thanks to the addition of Marrakech and Cairo to its map of destinations, but also to growth in the airline’s already consolidated destinations such as Dublin, Naples and Manchester.
Dublin, Manchester and Naples
In Europe, Iberia Express will see the greatest growth this winter in Lyon, where between 17 and 18 weekly flights are scheduled; Naples, with up to 12 weekly flights; Dublin, with an average of nine flights a week, i.e. between one and two daily flights; and an increase of one weekly frequency with Manchester, to four round-trip flights a week.
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