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