Iberia continues to expand its Latin American network and will offer a total of 5.3 million seats to and from the region in 2024.
This figure represents an increase of 16 percent compared to 4.6 million in 2023, and more than 20 percent compared to pre-pandemic levels in 2019.
The airline will operate more than 320 weekly flights between Europe and Latin America in 2024, with routes to Argentina, Brazil, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico seeing the largest capacity increases.
Iberia will fly three times a day between Spain and Argentina this summer, a 50 percent increase over the previous winter season, and this winter the airline will operate twice-daily frequencies to Sao Paulo, up from the current 11 weekly flights. .
The Madrid-Bogotá route will have three daily frequencies throughout the year, while flights to Peru amount to 13 weekly.
Montevideo will also see record capacity in 2024 with daily flights throughout the year, and there will be additional frequency on the airline's services to Santiago de Chile between June and September, taking the route to 11 weekly flights.
And Puerto Rico is also seeing a significant increase in capacity compared to last year, with daily services during most months of the year.
The news comes as TAP Air Portugal this month announced plans for a new route between Lisbon and Florianópolis.
Europe's only non-stop services to the Brazilian coastal city will launch on September 12, becoming TAP's 12th Brazilian destination, joining routes to São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belém, Belo Horizonte, Brasilia, Fortaleza, Natal , Maceió, Porto Alegre, Recife and Salvador. .
In total, the airline will operate 95 weekly flights between Lisbon and Brazil this summer, with an average of more than 13 daily flights.
TAP will launch the only direct flights from Europe to Florianópolis
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