<h6><strong>The Diplomat</strong></h6> <h4><strong>Iberia will offer a total of 3.2 million seats between Europe and Latin America in the upcoming summer season, which represents an increase of four percent compared to 2024, the airline reported in a press release. It will also operate 140 weekly flights between Spain and the US, 14 percent more than last year.</strong></h4> The summer season for the tourism sector begins on March 30. For this reason, Iberia has planned an increase in capacity in practically all markets, with special attention to routes with Latin America, where the Spanish airline is the undisputed leader with the largest number of destinations, 18 in 16 countries. According to Iberia, in 2025 the highest connectivity in its history will be recorded, even surpassing last year's figures, with 3.2 million seats between both regions, four percent more than in 2024. This means more than 300 weekly flights. Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo will experience the largest increase in weekly frequencies, adding three flights a week in both cases. Thus, Buenos Aires will have 21 weekly frequencies this season, that is, three daily flights, and Sao Paulo will increase to 14 weekly frequencies, consolidating the two daily flights. Lima will also add an additional frequency, so that this summer it will be possible to fly to the Peruvian capital twice a day from May. Iberia is also committed to maintaining the proposal made last year in the rest of Latin American destinations. Mexico and Bogotá will maintain the triple daily flight this summer, and Montevideo and Quito the daily flight. For its part, Santiago de Chile will have ten weekly frequencies during the first part of the season and from June it will increase, as last year, to eleven weekly flights. Rio de Janeiro will maintain five weekly frequencies, Caracas will have between three and five weekly flights depending on the month, and Guayaquil will have three frequencies per week. In Central America and the Caribbean, the offer remains similar to 2024. Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Guatemala and El Salvador will maintain daily flights. Panama will have up to four frequencies per week and Havana will continue with three weekly frequencies. <h5><strong>United States</strong></h5> On the other hand, the incorporation of the new A321XLRs in the coming months will allow Iberia to strengthen its commitment to the United States, the country with the largest number of destinations in the airline's intercontinental network. In the 2025 summer season, the airline will operate 140 weekly flights between the two countries, 14 percent more than last year, and will put a total of 1.1 million seats on the market. Iberia flies direct, non-stop, to New York (two daily), Chicago (one daily), Miami (two daily), Dallas (one daily), Los Angeles (one daily), San Francisco (three weekly frequencies), Boston (two daily) and Washington (one daily). Precisely these last two will experience the greatest growth this summer, doubling in the case of Boston the 2024 offer from one to two daily flights starting in June; and increasing the weekly frequencies to Washington from four to seven. Both destinations will be operated by the new A321XLR aircraft, a narrow-body model but capable of crossing the Atlantic, and of which Iberia has been the global launch airline.
