World2Fly, The airline of the company World2Meet (W2M), the travel division of the Spanish tourist group Iberostar, will be flying to Havana from 19 June., as well as to other destinations in the Caribbean, departing from Madrid and Lisbon.
According to the company, its maiden flight will be to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, as announced 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 expand as the demand it 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 willing to attend from the demand for new destinations to expanding and relocating our area programming as flexibility is a natural thing in our company., ”Subías said.
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 built in May 2021, while the other is scheduled for delivery in May 2022.
Those planes are “leased, of course, because it is no time to invest” and will have 432 economy class seats, 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 it will increase them to seven a week with Cuba.
According to the Europa Press report, the aviation authorities have said they will allow regular international flights to Venezuela. “Flights between Moscow and Caracas are resuming twice a week,” the statement by the Russian authorities, collected by the Sputnik agency, said.
The announcement was made on Thursday, the day the Eurasian country reached the threshold of 4.5 million infections since the start of the pandemic, adding more than 9,000 cases of the new coronavirus in the past 24 hours.