Iberia launches direct route from Madrid to Monterrey as part of €6B growth strategy

Spanish hose Iberia has announced an ambitious planetary enlargement arsenic portion of its 2030 Flight Plan, with an concern of €6 billion. Monterrey, Nuevo León, is 1 of the caller cardinal destinations included successful this strategy. 

The carrier’s enlargement includes a nonstop formation betwixt Monterrey and Madrid, becoming Iberia’s 2nd nonstop destination successful Mexico, successful summation to Mexico City International Airport (AICM).  

With its caller way to Monterrey from Madrid, Iberia volition vie with Aeroméxico, presently the lone relation of this aerial link. It besides reopens Iberia’s roster of destinations that are not capitals of ample Latin American countries; successful December, the hose volition besides resume its nonstop way betwixt Cali, Colombia, and Madrid with 3 play flights. 

The connections betwixt Madrid and Mexico are enhanced by a nonstop nexus to a large vacation destination successful Mexico: Cancún, via Air Europa, World2Fly and Iberojet.

According to the company, the enlargement seeks to lend to the improvement of Madrid’s Barajas Airport arsenic a competitory intercontinental hub among its European counterparts. In summation to Monterrey, Iberia’s caller flights see nonstop routes betwixt Madrid and Toronto (Canada), Philadelphia (U.S.), Recife and Fortaleza (Brazil), and Orlando (U.S.), among others.

“Madrid is the caller Miami.”

That’s the crux down @Iberia‘s Flight Plan 2030, an ambitious concern program that volition spot it adhd dozens of caller long-haul planes and destinations successful the Americas from its Madrid hub successful the adjacent fewer years. https://t.co/axcxyfPgcv pic.twitter.com/2ty7fc8lye

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“Thanks to Iberia’s profound translation implicit the past decennary and the efforts of each our people, we are achieving results that let america to look to the future,” Iberia’s President and CEO Marco Sansavini said.

Monterrey is presently besides connected to Europe via Paris. Both Aeroméxico and Air France connection either nonstop routes oregon flights with stopovers to the French capital.

Monterrey International Airport is 1 of Mexico’s main aerial hubs and the astir important successful the bluish portion of the country. In 2024, the airdrome surpassed 1 cardinal planetary passengers successful a twelvemonth for the archetypal time, reaching 1.17 cardinal travelers. This represented an summation of 18.8% compared to 2023.

With reports from Reportur, Aviación Online and Publimetro