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Spain watches on closely as neighbouring Portugal heads to the polls for crunch presidential election

SPAIN is eagerly awaiting the fate of its Iberian neighbour after Portugal headed to the polls on Sunday to elect a new president. The incumbent

18 Jan, 2026 @ 20:45

International Affairs·Lead·Politics

Bird strike forces Iberia plane to perform emergency landing just minutes after taking off from Madrid

AN Iberia flight from Madrid to Paris was forced to turn back and make an emergency landing on Sunday after a bird struck the front

4 Aug, 2025 @ 14:13

Lead·Madrid

Police arrest woman on Madrid airport plane after stealing coat at security control

Iberia strikes WILL go ahead: Last-ditch talks fail to prevent Spain-wide walkouts from starting tomorrow

IBERIA walkouts are set to begin tomorrow as last-ditch talks to prevent Spain-wide strikes have failed. Despite multiple attempts to reach an agreement, final talks

4 Jan, 2024 @ 16:45

Lead·Travel News

Boeing 747 412, Iberia (air Atlanta Icelandic) An0878067

Spanish airline Iberia to hold last-ditch meeting with unions today in bid to halt ground staff strikes that will affect more than 45,000 passengers

SPANISH AIRLINE Iberia is holding last-ditch talks today with unions in a bid to halt a series of strikes by ground staff that are due

4 Jan, 2024 @ 11:12

Business & Finance·Lead·Travel News

What can I do if my flight is cancelled by the Iberia strikes in Spain? All you need to know as January walkouts are set to affect 45,000 passengers

TRAVEL disruption is expected over the King’s Day weekend as ground staff from Spanish airline Iberia go on strike. The former flag carrier has already

3 Jan, 2024 @ 12:19

Lead·Travel News

Iberia strikes latest: Airline bosses will meet with trade unions in last-ditch attempt to prevent Spain-wide walkouts in early January

REPRESENTATIVES from Spanish airline Iberia will be meeting with some of Spain’s biggest unions on Thursday in a last-ditch attempt to stop a planned strike

27 Dec, 2023 @ 12:55

Business & Finance·Lead·Travel News

Iberia strikes back on: Here are the dates that air travel in Spain will be affected by the ground staff stoppages

BARELY days after unions had announced that they would not be calling strikes for Spanish airline Iberia’s ground staff, the stoppages are back on. The

25 Dec, 2023 @ 11:30

Business & Finance·Lead·Travel News

Airport strikes in Spain latest: Iberia workers delay the start date of their walk out

AIR TRAVELLERS in Spain this Christmas can breathe a sigh of relief – for now, anyway. Strikes that were due to be called over the holiday

21 Dec, 2023 @ 11:10

Business & Finance·Lead·Travel News

Los Pasillos De Aeropuerto Adolfo Suarez Madrid Barajas Practicamente Vacios Por El Covid19

Fresh airport strikes in Spain: Baggage handlers to walk out on these dates in December and January

SPAIN’S two biggest labour unions, UGT and CCOO, have called eight days of strike action for Spanish airline Iberia’s ground service staff over the Christmas

14 Dec, 2023 @ 11:16

Business & Finance·Lead·Travel News

‘Let it fail and go under’ Iberia warned off buying indebted Air Europa

The owners of British Airways have been advised to swerve the acquisition of Air Europa, Spain’s third-largest airline, and let the company ‘fail and go

22 Feb, 2023 @ 19:15

Business & Finance·Lead·Travel News

Iberia in Spain ordered by court to rethink cabin crew procedures due to ‘risk when closing overhead lockers’

THE SPANISH High Court has ruled that airline Iberia will have to take action to ensure that its cabin crew don’t injure themselves when closing

12 Nov, 2022 @ 10:00

Business & Finance·Lead·National News·Travel News

Spain’s Iberia airline warns of scam messages offering free tickets

SPANISH airline Iberia has warned of a “high number of warnings” in recent days of fake messages circulating on WhatsApp purporting to offer free tickets

7 Nov, 2022 @ 17:45

Lead·National News

EXCLUSIVE: A British mother who suffered a serious episode of anxiety at Madrid airport after she was told a vital possession in her luggage was lost has opened up about the ordeal in an exclusive interview with the Olive Press

A British family originally from Manchester had the “worst holiday of their life” after they were left without their luggage for more than eight days.

20 Sep, 2022 @ 16:07

Lead·Madrid·Travel News

Iberia and British Airways flights rerouted to avoid Russian airspace after Ukraine invasion

British Airways and Spanish carriers Iberia and Vueling has said it will re-route its aircraft to avoid flying over Russian airspace. IAG also said it

25 Feb, 2022 @ 18:45

Lead·Travel News

Ryanair adds new flights to Malaga - including two from Teesside - after slashing millions of seats to Spain

Ryanair accused of treating passengers like dogs for accepting bookings for cancelled flight to Spain from Morocco

A Spanish tourist stranded in Morocco has accused Ryanair of treating customers ‘like dogs’ and ‘deceiving people’ after taking bookings for cancelled flights out of

3 Dec, 2021 @ 13:09

Lead·Travel News

Valencia's Air Nostrum in Spain and Ireland's CityJet get EU merger approval for second time

Air Nostrum based in Spain’s Valencia region asks for government bailout loan

THE Valencian airline Air Nostrum has asked for a €103 million bailout loan from the Spanish government’s rescue fund. The company says that it lost

16 Apr, 2021 @ 17:00

Travel News·Valencia·Valencian Community

Spain’s Iberia slammed for not letting family embark and ordered to cough up €2400 compensation

According to the law established by European Regulation 261/2004, users who were delayed for more than three hours on a flight are entitled to the

6 Oct, 2020 @ 10:30

Lead·Malaga·Other News

EXCLUSIVE: British couple ‘could sue’ Iberia after ‘coronavirus patients’ travel on Cuba to Spain flight and passengers AREN’T TESTED on landing

“A stewardess told us that the ill passengers were being treated for suspected coronavirus in Havana. But somehow, they had left the hospital and boarded

22 Mar, 2020 @ 18:27

Lead·Madrid·Travel News

Ground staff at Spain’s national airline Iberia will stage eight-week walkout

The Union General de Trabajadores (UGT) has called for strikes every Monday from September 30 until November 18.

21 Sep, 2019 @ 11:00

Business & Finance·Lead·National News

iberian airline pilots annouce two one day strikes in december

FLIGHT SHOCKER: Spain could be left with almost no domestic flights in a no-deal Brexit

SPAIN is facing a flightmare post-Brexit as British-owned Iberia could lose its right to operate in the EU if the UK fails to ratify the

21 Dec, 2018 @ 12:33

Lead·Travel News

NOT SO BRITISH: BA owner in talks with Spanish government amid Brexit fears

BA seeks has been consulting the European Commission and Madrid as it steps up preparations for a no-deal Brexit

13 Nov, 2018 @ 12:00

Business & Finance·Lead·National News

Balearic president to meet with airlines to safeguard resident discounts

THE President of the Balearics has vowed to prevent airlines increasing their prices after new resident discounts look likely to come into force from July.

25 May, 2018 @ 11:19

Business & Finance·Mallorca·Politics·Travel News

Iberia slammed after €25,000 fine for making applicants take pregnancy test

Unions and politiians round on airline for 'discrimination' against women

11 Jul, 2017 @ 10:10

Lead·Mallorca

Spanish plane descends perilously close to cars on motorway

Iberia flight from Madrid narrowly misses busy Costa Rica road

8 Oct, 2015 @ 13:38

Featured·National News

Baggage handling strike to affect 8,000 Malaga airport travellers

Workers demand an end to unsafe conditions

16 Aug, 2015 @ 13:00

Business & Finance·Lead·Malaga

Spain’s Ebola outbreak hits European travel markets

Stocks in tourism companies continue to plunge following Spain's Ebola outbreak

8 Oct, 2014 @ 19:00

National News

Spain watches on closely as neighbouring Portugal heads to the polls for crunch presidential election

Bird strike forces Iberia plane to perform emergency landing just minutes after taking off from Madrid

Iberia strikes WILL go ahead: Last-ditch talks fail to prevent Spain-wide walkouts from starting tomorrow

Spanish airline Iberia to hold last-ditch meeting with unions today in bid to halt ground staff strikes that will affect more than 45,000 passengers

What can I do if my flight is cancelled by the Iberia strikes in Spain? All you need to know as January walkouts are set to affect 45,000 passengers

Iberia strikes latest: Airline bosses will meet with trade unions in last-ditch attempt to prevent Spain-wide walkouts in early January

Iberia strikes back on: Here are the dates that air travel in Spain will be affected by the ground staff stoppages

Airport strikes in Spain latest: Iberia workers delay the start date of their walk out

Fresh airport strikes in Spain: Baggage handlers to walk out on these dates in December and January

‘Let it fail and go under’ Iberia warned off buying indebted Air Europa

Iberia in Spain ordered by court to rethink cabin crew procedures due to ‘risk when closing overhead lockers’

Spain’s Iberia airline warns of scam messages offering free tickets

EXCLUSIVE: A British mother who suffered a serious episode of anxiety at Madrid airport after she was told a vital possession in her luggage was lost has opened up about the ordeal in an exclusive interview with the Olive Press

Iberia and British Airways flights rerouted to avoid Russian airspace after Ukraine invasion

Ryanair accused of treating passengers like dogs for accepting bookings for cancelled flight to Spain from Morocco

Air Nostrum based in Spain’s Valencia region asks for government bailout loan

Spain’s Iberia slammed for not letting family embark and ordered to cough up €2400 compensation

EXCLUSIVE: British couple ‘could sue’ Iberia after ‘coronavirus patients’ travel on Cuba to Spain flight and passengers AREN’T TESTED on landing

Ground staff at Spain’s national airline Iberia will stage eight-week walkout

FLIGHT SHOCKER: Spain could be left with almost no domestic flights in a no-deal Brexit

NOT SO BRITISH: BA owner in talks with Spanish government amid Brexit fears

Balearic president to meet with airlines to safeguard resident discounts

Iberia slammed after €25,000 fine for making applicants take pregnancy test

Spanish plane descends perilously close to cars on motorway

Baggage handling strike to affect 8,000 Malaga airport travellers

Spain’s Ebola outbreak hits European travel markets

Julio Iglesias lawyer wants sex abuse complaints thrown out because courts in Spain have ‘no jurisdiction’

Broken joint found on tracks where Cordoba crash killed 39

‘We still can’t find her’: Families launch heartbreaking appeals for missing loved ones after Cordoba train disaster

Three days of national mourning declared in Spain as Pedro Sanchez promises ‘transparent’ probe into train disaster with at least 39 deaths

Spain is preparing to switch on EES biometric scanners at the Gibraltar border next month – but where is the long-awaited EU-UK treaty?