SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Oct. 29 (EUROPA PRESS) –
Iberia Express has scheduled 12 percent more capacity in the Canary Islands for the next six months than in 2022 and 43 percent more than in 2019, coinciding with the winter season that begins today for the airline sector in Europe and will be longer. Until the 30th of March.
As reported by the Iberia Group’s low-cost airline, this winter the most important market for Iberia Express will be precisely the Canary Islands, where it consolidates its leadership on routes with Madrid and will deploy 1.4 million seats, more than 40 percent of the 3 .5 million that it will offer in total in the coming months.
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 in each direction) and Tenerife (nine flights by sense).
In Lanzarote it will deploy close to 160,000 seats (7% more than in 2022) and will grow to three daily flights; in Fuerteventura it will reach close to 110,000 seats (14% more than in 2022) with two daily flights; In Gran Canaria it will concentrate almost 488,000 seats (15% more than last winter) and eight daily flights in each direction; on La Palma it exceeds 86,000 seats (7% more than last winter) and will operate between one and two flights daily; and in Tenerife it will offer close to 564,000 seats, exceeding 513,000 seats (10% more than in 2022) with nine flights in each direction between the two airports on the island.
25 PERCENT MORE CAPACITY.
In total, Iberia Express will offer 23 routes this winter, 13 of them international, as part of its strategy to diversify its capacity into new markets. Outside Spain, it will increase its capacity by around 25 percent compared to 2022 thanks to the incorporation, above all, of Marrakech and Cairo to its destination map, but also growth in the airline’s already consolidated destinations such as Dublin, Naples or Manchester.
Flights between Madrid and Marrakech launch today, with two daily frequencies and schedules that facilitate connections from Spain and the entire European continent. With this new link Iberia Express expands for the first time towards the African continent, where it will also incorporate the Madrid-Cairo-Madrid route starting tomorrow, October 30, with three weekly frequencies.
In Europe, this winter the greatest growth for Iberia Express will correspond to the Madrid-Lyon routes, where between 17 and 18 weekly flights have been scheduled; Madrid-Naples, with up to 12 weekly flights; Madrid-Dublin, which reaches an average of nine flights per week, that is, between one and two flights per day; and increases a weekly Madrid-Manchester frequency, up to four weekly round-trip flights.
