New baggage options with Iberia

Iberia is launching a new baggage tariff with three options. And it is becoming stricter on excess baggage.
Iberia A319 (photo: grupo.iberia.es)

Iberia launches new baggage options in addition to its standard 23kg allowance. Passengers can now select an allowance of 15 or 32 kilos.

The company justifies the adaptation of its offer to the changing passenger profile. And to new behaviours that are more "responsible and ecological". The 15kg allowance therefore seems perfectly suited to an individual businessman. travelling for short periods of time. The price for a 15kg bag starts at 13 euros, for a "classic" weight bag at 18 euros and for a 32kg bag at 35 euros.

On the other hand, passengers will now have to pay a supplement for each additional kiloExcluding excess. Each kilo will be charged at 12 euros instead of the flat rate in force until now.

These new baggage options are in force on domestic and European routes operated by Iberia, Iberia Express and Iberia Regional/Air Nostrum. For the moment, customers can access them via the company's website or its application. Eventually, they should also be sold through branches connected to the company's distribution system.

Focus on Latin America

In addition, the has announced that it has resumed most of its flights to Latin America. Since July, Iberia once again serves 18 destinations in 16 countries with 90 weekly flights.

Since this month, Iberia has been serving Cali in Colombia twice a week and Puerto Rico three times a week from Madrid by Airbus A330-200. Iberia has also increased the number of weekly flights on the Madrid-Mexico route from 10 to 12. It plans to increase this to two daily flights in September.

Frequencies to Panama, Quito and Buenos Aires flights have already been increased to 6 weekly flights, and those to San Jose (Costa Rica) to daily. Finally, in September, Montevideo will benefit from five flights a week instead of the current three. Only Caracas remains closed for the time being...