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Iberia Airlines or Iberia Líneas Aéreas de España, apart from being the national airline of Spain is the largest Spanish airline with its base in Madrid. Serving several important international destinations across the world, Iberia Airlines has its prime hubs at Madrid Barajas International Airport in Madrid and Barcelona International Airport in Barcelona. The total turnover made by Iberia Airlines in 2005 was about € 395 million. In 2005 itself Iberia Airlines and Iberia Regional, known as Air Nostrum served about 32,364,264 passengers in over 100 destinations across 39 countries. Apart from carrying passengers and cargo, Iberia Airlines is involved in other related functions like handling in airports, aircraft maintenance, in-flight catering and IT systems.
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Through code-sharing, Iberia Airlines operates flights to 90 other destinations and owning the fleet of above 200 airliners, Iberia Airlines operates every day more than 1000 flights.Iberia Airlines itself being accountable for 60% of the total traffic of Madrid Barajas International Airport, served about 21,619,041 passengers to and from Madrid Barajas along with Air Nostrum.
Iberia, Compañía Aérea de Transportes, being integrated on 28th June, 1927, started operating flights on 14th December, 1927. The next year this company was subsidized by the Spanish government for offering postal services between Barcelona and Madrid. The nationalization of Iberia Airlines occurred on 30th September 1944 and Iberia Airlines became a member of INI. Iberia Airlines became the first airline to operate between South America and Europe in 1946 after World War II. The transatlantic flights between United Airlines and Spain were started in 1954 due to the withdrawal of the visa requirements for the people visiting Spain from the US. On 3rd April 2001, privatization of Iberia Airlines took place and by 2002, with the completion of its 75th year of service, Iberia Airlines had already served more than 500 million passengers. The major shareholders of Iberia Airlines are British Airways, Caja Madrid, Logista, El Corte Inglés and SEPI.
Iberia Airlines itself owns 20 % shares in Clickair, a low-cost airline wit its base in Barcelona as well as Royal Air Maroc’s 0.95% share. Iberia Airlines became a part of the Oneworld Alliance on 1st September 1999 and at present shares partnership with British Airways, American Airlines, Avianca and Grupo TACA. It has also a codeshare contract with Cathay Pacific an Oneworld member, on flights to Hong Kong from London and Amsterdam. Iberia Airlines serves various routes across the world to Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America. Iberia Airlines operates direct scheduled flights connecting Boston Logan International Airport to Madrid Barajas Airport.
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