Iberia Is Operating Special Flights to Repatriate Spaniards

• This weekend it will fly to Buenos Aires and Quito, where travel restrictions are in place
• Spanish embassies and consulates are helping coordinate passenger lists
• Special flights to Tokyo, Dakar, and Santo Domingo have taken place in the past few days
• Iberia is maintaining a minimum level of air connectivity between Spain and the outside world so it can repatriate Spaniards who wish to return and also help foreign visitors return home from Spain, in spite of the travel restrictions decreed at many destinations

In coordination with Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Iberia has made arrangements for Saturday, 21 March, to operate separate flights to Buenos Aires and Quito, returning to Madrid on Sunday, to repatriate hundreds of Spanish citizens now trapped by the travel bans now in force in Argentina and Ecuador.

Passenger lists tare being coordinated with the respective Spanish embassies and consulates.

In recent days Iberia has made similar repatriation flights to Japan and Senegal. This afternoon a third such flight is departing to Madrid from the Dominican Republic.

Iberia continues to fly to countries with severe travel restrictions, such as the United States, to facilitate repatriations in both directions.

The worldwide coronavirus pandemic involving quarantines and the closing of airspace by many of the countries it serves has obliged the Spanish airline to drastically curtail its flying operations.

However, in coordination with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, it is managing to skirt some of the restrictions in order to repatriate stranded Spaniards abroad and foreign citizens in Spain.