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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