The Diplomat
Iberia will have two daily flights between Madrid and Lima starting in September, in response to the “growing interest of travelers in both directions, both for tourism and business”.
Specifically, Iberia announced last Tuesday that, starting next June, it will have eleven weekly frequencies (double daily flights except Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays), which will be increased in September to thirteen flights (double daily flights, except Sundays) for the rest of the summer season until the end of October. This is a reinforcement of the previously announced commitment for this year, which contemplated reaching up to ten weekly frequencies from March to October.
“We see that demand between Spain and Peru is very robust, that there is growing interest from travelers in both directions, both for tourism and business, and this encourages us to advance our growth plans in the country to advance our goal, which is to offer two daily flights between Madrid and Lima,” said María Jesús López Solás, Iberia’s commercial and network development and alliances director.
The route between Madrid and Lima is operated with Iberia’s most efficient aircraft, the Airbus A350, with capacity for 348 passengers. This means that for the six months comprising the 2023 summer season, Iberia would deploy an offer in excess of 210,000 seats on this corridor.
These data confirm not only the full recovery of capacity on this route, but also its growth, since with this bet the number of seats this summer season will be 54 percent above 2022, and 12 percent above the pre-pandemic capacity in 2019.
In addition, the Madrid-Lima-Madrid flight schedules allow the best connections with Iberia’s network of destinations in Europe, which covers more than one hundred cities and, beyond Lima, connecting with twelve other destinations in Peru: Arequipa, Cajamarca, Cuzco, Chiclayo, Iquitos, Juliaca, Piura, Puerto Maldonado, Tacna, Talara, Tarapoto and Trujillo.
