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Four years after suspending the route, Iberia has resumed its flights to Johannesburg International Airport with a sold out flight. This will be the only non-stop flight between South
Africa and Spain.
The Spanish airline is flying three
times a week between the two cities, with the following timetable:
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Flight no.
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From
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Departs
|
To
|
Arrives
|
Days
|
|
IB6050
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Johannesburg
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20:15
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Madrid
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06:35 next day
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Tues., Fri., Sat.
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IB6051
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Madrid
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23:45
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Johannesburg
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09:55 next day
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Mon.,Thurs., Fri.
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The re-launch of the Madrid-Johannesburg led
Iberia to stage a number of actions to promote South Africa in Spain and
elsewhere in Europe, and also to introduce the new Iberia to potential
customers in South Africa, a country featured in the August issue of Iberia’s
in-flight magazine Ronda,
read by about one million readers.
Marco Sansavini, Iberia’s Chief Commercial
Officer, commented: “With our flight from Johannesburg to Madrid, we will be
strengthening economic and cultural ties between South Africa and Spain, while
also promoting European tourism to South Africa.
"Meanwhile, our South African
customers can come to Madrid and avail themselves of the good connections to
all our Spanish, European, and American destinations.”
Iberia returned to South Africa as a renewed
airline, more efficient, with new aircraft, new long-haul cabins, and new
services. To link Johannesburg and Madrid it will fly its new twin-engine A330-300s
More connecting flights in South Africa and
Spain
In addition, Iberia and Comair have signed a
code-share agreement to be implemented in the next few weeks. It will cover such destinations as Cape
Town, Port Elizabeth, and Durban in South Africa, Windhoek in Namibia, and Victoria
Falls and Harare in Zimbabwe, via Johannesburg.
Via Madrid, passengers from South Africa will
find good connections to Iberia’s 30 additional destinations in Spain,
including Barcelona, Bilbao, Seville, and Malaga; 58 European cities including
London, Lisbon, Porto, Milan, Rome, Frankfurt, and Geneva; Boston, Chicago, Los
Angeles, Miami, and New York in the United States, and 20 Latin American
destinations, such as Havana, Santo Domingo, Mexico City, and Panama City.
Iberia will offer a total of 36,700 seats this
year on the Johannesburg-Madrid route.
About Iberia: Iberia is the leading carrier on routes
between Europe and Latin America and it flies to more than 125
destinations in 48 countries.
Together with its subsidiary Iberia Express and
its franchise partner Iberia Regional/Air Nostrum, it operates about 600
flights each day with a fleet of 136 aircraft. It offers easy and convenient
connections at its hub in T4 in Madrid-Barajas airport.
Iberia was Europe’s
most punctual airline and second in the world in 2015, according to
Flightstats.
The airline is a member of the oneworld alliance that operates
more than 14,000 daily flights to some 1,000 destinations in more than 150
countries. For more information, please visit http://grupo.iberia.es
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