By PGTravelTips Reporter.
From 2 October 2010, Iberia will start flying between San Salvador and
Madrid, becoming the first European airline to connect both cities.
The four new weekly flights (on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays)
will also allow travellers to connect to other Central American cities with TACA, and to other European cities from Madrid with Iberia.
Thanks to a code-sharing agreement with TACA Airlines, passengers will be able to fly onward to (or from) other Central American cities such as Managua, San Pedro Sula or Tegucigalpa.
New route...Iberia will start flying between San Salvador and Madrid, becoming the first European airline to connect both cities.
Iberia expects to carry around 40,000 passengers on the new route during the first year of operation. The carrier will use Airbus A-340/300 aircraft, with capacity for 254 passengers, including 36 Business Plus flat-bed seats, recently enhanced to allow up to 2.20 metres of space per passenger.
Flights will depart San Salvador at 19:40 hours and arrive in Madrid at 14:15 hours the following day, from where passengers will be able to connect to 41 other cities in Europe and 9 in Africa.
The return flight will depart Madrid at 12:30 hours, touching down in Guatemala at 15:45 hours before continuing to San Salvador, arriving there at 17:20 hours.
From here, passengers will be able to take connecting flights to other Central American cities.
www.iberia.com
Further information on Central America: www.visitcentroamerica.com
PGTT.
