We will consolidate our post-pandemic recovery in the summer of 2023, focusing on our long-haul from the United States.
For Iberia, the summer season begins on March 25 and runs until October 28. Following the recovery of our entire network of destinations, we have programmed capacity increases in our most strategic markets in this region, as well as deploying marketing campaigns and other communication, public relations and sponsorship actions to increase our brand awareness.
These are our main novelties for the summer season.
In the summer season, we will recover our full range of pre-pandemic flights and even increase our operations by 2% compared to 2019 levels, which will be 5% for the year as a whole.
Mexico: The three daily flights reached in December 2022 are maintained throughout 2023, already above the pre-pandemic capacity.
Return to Washington DC and San Francisco
We will recover our summer routes from Washington DC and San Francisco in the US. In addition, from June, we will increase our daily flights from Dallas. In total, we have scheduled nearly 20% more flights from the US than in 2019: up to 124 weekly flights between Spain and eight destinations in the United States. Specifically:
New York: Twice daily flights from March, continuing beyond the summer season until the end of the year.
Miami: Twice-daily flights will be maintained throughout the year.
Chicago: Daily flights from March through December
Boston: Daily flights from April to October
Dallas: We operated this route throughout the winter -it was initially launched as seasonal last June with four weekly frequencies- and from April we will increase to five frequencies, to six in May, and will reach a daily flight from June to October.
Los Angeles: This route will have four frequencies in April, increasing to five from May to October, and we will operate it with its largest aircraft, the Airbus A350s, with a capacity for 359 passengers.
Washington DC: We will operate this route again from April to October with four weekly frequencies.
San Francisco: This seasonal route returns from May to October with three weekly frequencies.
Summer Destinations in Europe
We will resume all summer routes in the coming months: Bergen, in July and August with two weekly frequencies; and in Italy, Catania, from June to September; and Olbia, from the end of June to September.
In Croatia, Dubrovnik -with up to two daily flights in August- Split and Zagreb, which will reach daily flights in August.
In Greece, in addition to Athens -which will have more than three daily frequencies in August- Corfu -in July, August and September- Mykonos and Santorini, both from the end of June to September.
In Portugal, our year-round routes to Lisbon, Oporto, and Funchal will be joined by Faro and Ponta Delgada in summer, from June to September, operated by Iberia Regional / Air Nostrum.
And in the rest of the short- and medium-haul network, the biggest increases will be in Dusseldorf, where up to four daily flights will be offered; Stockholm, where we will increase from one daily flight to nine frequencies in May and to 10 from July; Milan, with up to five daily flights; Rome, which will increase from 32 to 37 weekly frequencies compared to last summer; and Venice, with 25 weekly frequencies (five more than in 2022).
In Bordeaux, we will go from two to three daily flights; and in Nantes, also with three daily flights, we will operate as Iberia Regional / Air Nostrum.
Consolidation of Iberia’s Commitment to the Air Shuttle
In Spain, our main focus will be the Madrid-Barcelona Air Shuttle, which this summer will have up to 86 weekly frequencies, the same capacity as before the pandemic and 11 more than the last summer.
The rest of the most significant increases will be in Bilbao, which will have up to 38 weekly frequencies -six more than last summer; A Coruña, which will have up to 31 weekly frequencies -five more than in 2022-; and Santander, which this summer will increase from three to four daily flights.