New IB MAD-SFO and MAD-LAS routes?

Old Dec 17, 2011, 2:33 am
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New IB MAD-SFO and MAD-LAS routes?

I was just playing around with the oneworld interactive map

link - http://onw.innosked.com/?show=MAP

and I selected destinations from MAD with Iberia (connections and codeshare boxes UNchecked) and to my huge surprise SFO and LAS appeared as direct routes operated by Iberia!

Proof:

SFO direct service IB 6173 on April 13th?
http://i.imgur.com/laoFm.jpg

LAS direct service IB 6121 and IB 6175 on May 23rd?
http://i.imgur.com/IQAeg.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/EEsSI.jpg


Strange... What do you think? Bug or major discovery?

If they really are going to expand, I would have thought the wise thing to do would be to secure the Europe-Latam market by adding more secondary S. American destinations or continue with the Europe-Africa plan...

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EDIT: It's official!! From the Iberia website:

SFO IB 6173 http://i.imgur.com/Lh35O.jpg

LAS IB 6121 and IB 6175 http://i.imgur.com/wzFay.jpg
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Last edited by alekos47; Dec 17, 2011 at 6:27 am Reason: Clearer screenshots
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Old Dec 17, 2011, 12:51 pm
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But wait, I thought One World was abandoning SFO?
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Old Dec 17, 2011, 2:21 pm
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Hi,

I cannot find those flights on other websites such as expedia and I do not think there has been an announcement either.

I would find it very odd to have 2 flights to LAS leaving from MAD within 35mins of each other.

That said, I would love an IB flight to LAS & SFO.

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Old Dec 17, 2011, 5:22 pm
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It does look like a Friday MAD-SFO and SFO-MAD flight (arriving MAD Saturday) from that. But as stated above, nothing to verify this at this time, and trying to book this has not produced usable results for me - all it shows are connections via LAX or ORD.
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Old Dec 18, 2011, 6:11 am
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These are corporate charter flights.
Incentive travel for a Spanish company.
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Old Dec 18, 2011, 12:01 pm
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Originally Posted by Aikos
These are corporate charter flights.
Incentive travel for a Spanish company.
Hi,

Very interesting

Thanks for that Aikos!^

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Old Dec 18, 2011, 9:52 pm
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Gracias! for that - it explains the appearance of these flights.

Originally Posted by Aikos
These are corporate charter flights.
Incentive travel for a Spanish company.
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