Iberia carried 37.2 % more passengers on its Madrid-Moscow route in 2006, in comparison with the previous year. The load factor on the route, which was launched just two years ago, reached…
Iberia carried 37.2 % more passengers on its Madrid-Moscow route in 2006, in comparison with the previous year. The load factor on the route, which was launched just two years ago, reached 74.4% in 2006. Since the maiden flight on March 13th, 2005, Iberia has carried nearly 130,000 passengers on this route.
The Spanish destinations most often chosen by travellers from Moscow are Madrid, Alicante, Tenerife, Malaga and Gran Canaria, and the long-haul destinations of Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Santiago, Chile, and Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo in Brazil.
Iberia plans to increase significantly the number of weekly flights between Madrid and Moscow, and also to begin flights from St. Petersburg, starting in June. The additional frequencies will provide passengers from Russia with better connections in Madrid to other 35 Spanish cites; Lisbon and Oporto in Portugal, 17 Latin American destinations, particularly the main Central American capitals and the Caribbean region, such as Cuba and the Dominican Republic, as well as to Buenos Aires and Mexico, where Iberia flies twice a day. Chicago, Miami and New York in the United States and Johannesburg in South Africa are other long haul destinations of the Spanish airline, to which passengers coming from Russia will get better connections.
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