Iberia will resume direct operations with Guayaquil in May

While from July the route with Cali (Colombia) and San Juan de Puerto Rico will also return.

Iberia will resume from May its direct operations with Guayaquil (Ecuador) and from July also the route with Cali (Colombia) and San Juan de Puerto Rico, the company reported on Wednesday.

The Spanish airline is pending to resume its flights with Caracas, which would mean offering flights from Madrid with 18 Latin American capitals.

It also intends to reinforce connections with the Greek islands, with Italy and Croatia and increase connectivity in Spain with the Balearic Islands (Mediterranean) and the Canary Islands (Atlantic) in their summer programs, which will have a more vacation component.

In North Africa, it will fly to Casablanca, Marrakech and Tangier when Morocco reopens its borders and, as of June, also to Algiers.

With these openings, the company will offer this summer 112 destinations, to try to save the season, after the last year's break due to the Coronavirus pandemic.

As the main novelty for this summer, it will offer two weekly frequencies to Maldives in the months of July and August.

The president of Iberia, Javier Sánchez Prieto, who participated today in the Wake Up Spain forum in the Digital newspaper El Español, defended that tourism is “the oil” of Spain and one of the best rental redistributors, and criticized those who question the tourism model in that country.

This sector represented 12.4 % of GDP in Spain in 2019, although restrictions due to pandemic made it fall to 4.3 % in 2020, according to Excellent, association that groups the main companies in the sector.