MADRID, 20 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Iberia celebrates this week the 75th anniversary of its flights with Latin America, its main market, building “a true bridge between Europe and Latin America” and making Madrid “the main gateway from Latin America.”
Specifically, on September 22, 1946, an Iberia DC-4 left Madrid’s Barajas airport for Buenos Aires, thus establishing the first regular flights between Europe and Latin America. The route of those first flights was Madrid-Villa Cisneros-Natal-Montevideo-Buenos Aires. In total, a 36 hour trip.
During an event held at Casa de América this Monday, the trailer for the documentary ‘Flying’ was also premiered, a song that was born to welcome Iberia’s Airbus A350 and as a tribute to its employees.
Likewise, Iberia and EFE have inaugurated this Monday at Casa de América a photographic exhibition on these 75 years of flights between Europe and Latin America. Attendees will be able to enjoy images of the first planes, the crews of those years, the service on board or the historical advertising of the airline.
The exhibition will be open until September 27, from 11 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. from Monday to Friday, and on Saturday until 3:00 p.m. Admission is free.
Iberia has been gradually recovering its route program and, in the winter season, will offer more than 200 direct flights a week to 17 destinations in 15 countries in the region.
The airline has scheduled growth in several countries such as Mexico, the Dominican Republic and Colombia especially, and has also planned more flights throughout Central America and Uruguay.
In addition, during the most complicated months of the pandemic, Iberia always maintained connectivity between Spain and Latin America and made more than 60 repatriation flights to Argentina, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Ecuador, Panama, the Dominican Republic and Uruguay, facilitating the return home of thousands of people.
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