Iberia to launch nonstop flights from Newark to Madrid

The New York Metropolis area is getting a brand new nonstop flight to Spain.

Subsequent yr, Spanish airline Iberia will launch service from Newark Liberty Worldwide Airport (EWR) to Madrid. It will likely be Iberia’s second airport within the New York space, including to its present nonstop service to and from John F. Kennedy Worldwide Airport (JFK).

Iberia’s new Newark flights to Adolfo Suarez Madrid-Barajas Airport (MAD) will launch on March 29 with day by day departures.

Flying on the route: Iberia’s brand-new Airbus A321XLR, the airline’s single-aisle jet able to making the transatlantic crossing, which debuted simply over a yr in the past. The airplane options 14 lie-flat seats in its business-class cabin, organized in a one-by-one configuration.

Associated: Iberia plans to fly all of its new Airbus A321XLRs to the US

Iberia bolsters New York schedule

Newark might be Iberia’s tenth airport within the 48 contiguous U.S. states, and can give the provider a presence on each side of the Hudson River.

Iberia already flies nonstop to MAD and to Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN) from JFK’s Terminal 8, the airport’s Oneworld alliance hub anchored by Iberia’s high U.S. accomplice American Airways.

Now, Oneworld frequent flyers (and American AAdvantage loyalists) preferring to fly out of EWR will acquire one other European vacation spot from the New Jersey hub.

“Newark provides a strategic choice that gives quick and handy entry to Manhattan, increasing alternative for vacationers and enhancing the expertise in considered one of Iberia’s most essential markets,” Iberia mentioned in a press release Tuesday.

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Iberia’s EWR-MAD itinerary

Here is how the itinerary will shake out:

• EWR to MAD: Departs 11:55 p.m., arrives at 1:20 p.m. the following day (all occasions native)
• MAD-EWR: Departs 7:35 p.m., arrives 10:25 p.m. (all occasions native)

Most notable about this schedule: you’ll primarily get pleasure from a full day in Madrid earlier than returning to the U.S., with that night departure and a late-night arrival at EWR.

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Different Newark flights to Spain

This may not be Newark flyers’ first nonstop hyperlink to Spain’s capital metropolis.

United Airways already serves Madrid from its main hub at EWR — and can fly to 5 different cities in Spain subsequent yr, together with brand-new service to Santiago de Compostela, on the nation’s northwest coast.

Tips on how to e-book Iberia with factors and miles

There are a selection of the way you should utilize factors and miles to e-book Iberia flights:

• American Airways AAdvantage members can redeem miles on accomplice flights operated by Iberia.
• Practically each main bank card switch accomplice permits transfers to both the Iberia Membership program or one of many different worldwide carriers that share its Avios loyalty foreign money — together with British Airways, Aer Lingus, Finnair and Qatar. You may seamlessly switch Avios between every of these airways’ applications.

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