The first commercial flight Iberia unió Barcelona and Madrid the 14 from December to 1927, y operó the route with an airplaneón trimotor Rohrbach Roland, that you haveíto capacity for 10 people.
Settled in wicker seats and heading to the airportóFour Winds Drome, on Madrid, 10 people undertook their journey from Barcelona on the first commercial Iberia flight, which took place on 14 from December to 1927.
Iberia's first flight
With two crew members, baggage and cargo, they flew in a planeón trimotor Rohrbach Roland, whose speed máxima era 205 km/h, what I allowedó complete the journey in three and a half hours. upon arrival, el rey Alfonso XIII garrisonsó the act that made officialó the birth of the companyñía, founded six months agoás.
From that moment, Iberia offeredó daily flights between Madrid and Barcelona, with a fleet of three Rohrbach Roland tri-engine aircraft and that, during the first month of operationón, added up 75 flights and 287 passengers. The price of the trip was 163 pesetas and 300 pesetas for those who bought round trip.
76 añconnecting them Américh Latin and Europe
Definitely, one of the great milestones of Iberia in these 95 añit was that, less than 20 añundress themés about to make its first commercial flight, the airíNea laid her eyes on Américh latina and crossó the Atlántico the 22 September 1946, from Madrid airportñor from Barajas heading to Buenos Aires. This traverseía, what contó with stops in Villa Cisneros (Áfear), Christmas and RíJanuary's, completeó after 36 hours on board an airplaneón Douglas model DC-4.
La expeditionón, composed of three commanders, a navigator, a radium, a guyánico and a stewardess, transportó towards Américh at first 24 people, who paid 7.250 pesetas or 659 dólares to the change of the élittle. Thus, Iberia becameó in the first airíline of Europe that, afterés of war, establishedó tráI'm theéregular prisoner between both continents.
Buenos Aires marcó the beginning of a relationshipón between Iberia and Américh Latina that has been maintained and strengthened until today, Well, that regionón isá today in Díat the center of the company's corporate strategyñía, So it supposes around 50 percent of your operationón.
Hoy, Iberia has flights to 18 am destinationsérich latina, what isán distributed in 16 países of the regionón. Así, the airínea currently offers around 260 weekly flights, which places the company as líder in the connectivity between Latinoamérica and España.
