World2Fly, World2Meet (W2M), the tourism division of the Spanish tourist group Iberostar, will start flying to Havana on June 19, as well as to other destinations in the Caribbean, departing from Madrid and Lisbon.
According to the company, its first flight will be to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, as announced on Thursday by W2M CEO Gabriel Subías, in the virtual presentation of the group’s new business lines.
The airline, which will have two licenses, one Spanish and one Portuguese, will offer two weekly flights from Madrid airport to Havana, Punta Cana and Cancun, plus one a week from Lisbon, although World2Fly hopes to increase them accordingly. what the request requires, EFE reported.
It is “a start-up proposal because we know it is a very complicated year due to the pandemic, but we are ready to participate in the demand for new destinations to increase and move the programming of our area, flexibility being something natural in our business,” he said. said Subías.
The airline will have a fleet of three aircraft: an already operational Airbus A330-300 and two new A330-900s, one of which will be incorporated in May 2021, while the delivery of the other is scheduled for May 2022.
Those planes are “rented, obviously, because it is not a time for investment” and will have 432 seats in economy class, the only one available, he explained.
Russia, for its part, has announced that it will resume international flights with Germany, Venezuela, Syria, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Sri Lanka from April 1, and he will raise them with Cuba at seven a week.
According to the Europa Press report, the aviation authorities have informed that they will allow the regular connection of international flights with Venezuela. “Flights between Moscow and Caracas are resumed twice a week,” the statement from the Russian authorities, collected by the Sputnik agency, reads.
The announcement was made on Thursday, the day when the Eurasian country reached the threshold of 4.5 million infections since the beginning of the pandemic, adding over 9,000 cases of new coronavirus in the last 24 hours.