Iberia is Repatriating Spaniards from Around the World The airline is also donating blankets and gowns to a Madrid Hospital

 

• Tomorrow Iberia will make its second special flights to both Santo Domingo and Dakar, and its first flight to Havana in a high-capacity aircraft since travel restrictions were imposed. It has already flown once to Quito, Buenos Aires, and Tokyo, and is seeking permission to fly to Lima.

 

• It is donating bed linen and pillows, gowns, and other supplies to Madrid’s Gregorio Marañon hospital.

 

Iberia continues to fight against the COVID-19 crisis, supplying transportation home for Spaniards abroad, and donating materials to hospitals.

 

Repatriation flight

Iberia is continuing to operate special flights to repatriate foreign citizens in Spain and bring Spaniards home from countries around the world, some of which have imposed restrictions on air travel.

 

Tomorrow the Spanish airline will operate its second rescue flights during the crisis to both Senegal and the Dominican Republic, using A330s. It has already made such flights to Argentina, Ecuador, and Japan. It will use one of its largest aircraft for today’s flight to Cuba.

The airline is also seeking permission to fly to Peru.

In these efforts the company has the active support of Spain’s Foreign Ministry and its embassies and consulates abroad, as well as with the pertinent foreign diplomatic missions to Spain.

 

Donations to hospitals

Iberia, in collaboration with its employee-backed NGO Mano a mano [“hand to hand”], the Health Agency of the Madrid regional government, the ALAER logistics company, and Madrid’s SAMUR public ambulance service and its civil defence agency, has made several donations.

 

• More than 6,000 duvets, 1,000 pillows, and 1,200 pillow cases for the emergency field hospital being set up at the IFEMA exhibition centre. It is now preparing a new donation of in-flight toilet kits with toothbrushes, toothpaste, combs, and socks.

 

• More than 4,000 cellulose hospital gowns belonging to the company’s own medical service have been donated to the Gregorio Marañón hospital in Madrid

 

• The Mano a Mano NGO founded by Iberia employees is also contributing 1,500 disposable barrier gowns to the same hospital.

 

A minimum of connectivity

The COVID-19 crisis has obliged Iberia to make drastic cuts in the flight programme owing to quarantines, travel restrictions, and even the closing of airspace by several of the countries Iberia serves.

In order to meet the needs of hundreds of Spaniards abroad and foreigners in Spain who wish to return home, Iberia has overcome numerous obstacles and maintained sufficient operational capacity to make these repatriation flights.