Iberia ups Latin America seats

Iberia is adding its biggest-ever summer schedule to Latin America, putting 3,354,159 seats on sale and running up to 366 weekly flights in 2026. (iberia.com) The airline said the increase is 7.6% above summer 2025 levels and will run through the Northern Hemisphere summer schedule that began on March 29, 2026. Iberia’s parent industry group, Asociación de Líneas Aéreas, said the carrier has more than 21.4 million seats on sale across its full summer network. (iberia.com) (ala.aero) Buenos Aires is getting one of the clearest boosts. Iberia said Madrid-Buenos Aires will rise to 23 weekly flights in June, July and August, up from 21, with 456,000 seats on that route alone, a 12% year-over-year increase. (iberia.com) Mexico is expanding in two ways at once. Iberia said it will start direct Madrid-Monterrey service on June 2 with three weekly flights, while adding capacity in the country as part of its wider Mexico buildout. (iberia.com) Brazil is also moving up the priority list. Iberia said the additions of Recife and Fortaleza, plus more service to Rio de Janeiro, will take its Brazil offer to nearly 400,000 seats this summer, up 15% from a year earlier. (iberia.com) The expansion is tied to Iberia’s Flight Plan 2030, the airline’s fleet-and-network growth program. Iberia and the airline association said new long-haul aircraft, including six Airbus A321XLR jets and one Airbus A350-900, are supporting the larger schedule. (iberia.com) (ala.aero) Madrid sits at the center of the strategy. Iberia said the larger summer bank of flights is designed to strengthen its role linking Europe with 18 destinations in Latin America across 16 countries. (iberia.com) Other Latin American markets are getting more frequencies too. Iberia said the Dominican Republic will have 10 to 11 weekly flights this summer versus 7 to 8 in 2025, Puerto Rico will rise to 10 to 12 from 7 to 9, and Santiago de Chile will have nearly 240,000 seats after increasing to 12 weekly flights. (iberia.com) For Iberia, the summer 2026 schedule turns Latin America into one of the airline’s main growth corridors again, with Buenos Aires, Mexico and Brazil taking a larger share of that push. (iberia.com)