Esta vez he incluído las secciones de Barcelona, Madrid, Santiago y Vigo, además de otras ciudades más o menos al azar que son ejemplos de cómo Iberia completaba su oferta con códigos compartidos (especialmente a Europa del este) con prácticamente cualquier compañía que volara a Barajas (algo relativamente fácil de hacer cuando se negociaban los derechos de tráfico para una compañía estatal como era entonces) También podéis ver en el mapa de rutas que muchos de estos destinos en código compartido no aparecen, mientras que por alguna razón Iberia se empeñaba durante años en poner Beirut en sus mapas cuando era un vuelo operado por un avión de la libanesa ✈MEA
con número de vuelo ME/IB.
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I think this 1990 Iberia timetable is the last one of a gone age where European carriers struggled on its very own to play as global airlines. As you know, Iberia kept a huge domestic network with many transversal flights and it also flew to American, European, African destinations and some Asian cities. Even if it was one of the big players, Europe was very underserved by Iberia and other European airlines had a much larger African and Asian network. There was also not a real hub at Madrid as we know them today. A year later Iberia was already trying its luck with the Iberia Group approach, using different brand names in the Spanish and European market, and investing in several South American carriers, and some 10 years later it joined the OneWorld alliance.
In this post you will find the Barcelona, Madrid, Santiago and Vigo flight sections, as well as other cities which were more or less randomly chosen so as to show that Iberia tried to improve its offer by adding codeshare flights to almost every city which was served at the time by foreign carriers. This was specially true for East European destinations. Also, for some unknown reason, the Spanish airline did not include most of these cities in its route maps, but on the other hand Beirut, which
was served as a ME/IB flight using ✈MEA aircraft was always included.
Bonus track: Algunas páginas, con diagramas de cabina, mapas de rutas y un esquema del aeropuerto de Madrid, sacados de una revista Ronda de enero de 1990:
Some pages from an Iberia Ronda inflight magazine from January 1990, with cabin seat charts, route maps and a schematic diagram of Madrid-Barajas airport:
Actualizado el 25//II/2018 con las imágenes de la revista Ronda.
Updated on Februrary 25th,2018 with the inflight magazine images.