Iberia ups Latin America seats

Iberia is adding more flights and seats between Madrid and Latin America for summer 2026, pushing the route network to a seasonal record. (iberia.com) The airline said it will offer 3,354,159 seats on Latin America services, up 7.6% from summer 2025, with as many as 366 weekly flights between Europe and the region. Iberia’s broader summer schedule starts on March 29, 2026. (iberia.com 1) (iberia.com 2) The busiest single push is Buenos Aires. Iberia said the Madrid-Buenos Aires route will run up to 23 weekly flights in June, July and August, up from 21 now, with 456,000 seats, a 12% increase from last summer. (iberia.com) Mexico is also part of the expansion, but the official growth item is a new Madrid-Monterrey route rather than an announced frequency increase to Mexico City. Iberia said Monterrey service starts June 2, 2026 with three weekly flights and 36,288 seats over the summer season. (iberia.com 1) (iberia.com 2) Brazil is getting more capacity through Recife and Fortaleza, which Iberia added recently, plus more Rio de Janeiro flying. Iberia said those changes will lift its Brazil offer to nearly 400,000 seats, 15% above the previous summer. (iberia.com) Other gains are spread across the network. The Dominican Republic rises to 10 to 11 weekly flights from 7 to 8 in 2025, Puerto Rico moves to 10 to 12 from 7 to 9, and Santiago de Chile holds 12 weekly flights with nearly 240,000 seats, up 7%. (iberia.com 1) (iberia.com 2) The expansion is tied to Iberia’s Flight Plan 2030, the airline’s fleet and growth program. Iberia said new long-haul aircraft, including six Airbus A321XLR jets and one Airbus A350-900 added recently, are supporting the larger summer schedule. (iberia.com) (iberia.com) Latin America remains central to Iberia’s long-haul strategy out of Madrid. In its March 23, 2026 summer network update, the airline said the region would again play a “central role” as it builds what it calls the largest summer capacity in its history. (iberia.com) The immediate effect is simple: more seats on Iberia’s Madrid-Latin America corridor during the peak July-August travel window, with Buenos Aires, Monterrey and Brazil taking much of the added lift. (iberia.com)