Starting October 1st Iberia will start direct flights between the Argentine city of Cordoba and Madrid. Iberia flights will operate on Mondays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, with schedules that ensure good connections from Madrid to and from the 38 Iberia destinations in Spain and the rest of Europe.
Cordoba will become a hub for passengers flying between the Central region of Argentina and Europe; the Spanish airline expects to carry 70,000 passengers on this route during the first year of operation, since the Cordoba airport will become the gateway of a very extensive area of 400 km around the Argentinean city, where about 10 million people live.
Argentina is Iberia's largest growth area in 2010. In February the airline added three weekly return flights to Buenos Aires, for a total of 17 flights per week.