As we approach the final stage of the summer season, we continue to offer a variety of special flights. In August and September, we have up to 154 charter flights, catering above all for cruises and tour operator destinations but also including incentive trips and sporting events.
Holiday charter flights
Cruise passengers are regular customers on our charter flights, and in August and September we continue to offer assistance to MSC Cruceros with special operations to Trieste, one every ten days, Venice and Bari, one every Saturday, and Copenhagen, one every Sunday.
Costa Cruceros is another company that benefits from our charter services, with one flight a week on Fridays to Hamburg and Athens, a flight on Saturdays to Catania, and one on Sundays to Bari.
For Sama Travel we offer an alternating service between Izmir and Istanbul every Saturday.
At the end of August we'll be assisting the tour operator Speranza with two special return flights between Zagreb and Girona.
Sports charter flights
The summer has been packed with sporting events and we're extremely proud of Spain's latest victories in the tennis and football championships.
At Iberia, we're honoured to continue supporting Spanish sport with our charter flights for sporting events. For example, we brought back one of the most important Spanish football clubs from the Pre-season tour of the United States, and for the final of the UEFA Super Cup in Warsaw we not only flew the members of the football club there but the entire management team as well.
In mid-August we'll be providing our support again with sports charter flights for the athletes taking part in the Paris 2024 Olympics. Another large group of these athletes will return from Paris on Iberia's scheduled flights. Three institutions have chartered flights in this case: the COE (Spanish Olympic Committee) to Paris, the RFEF (Royal Spanish Football Federation) to Bordeaux, and the FEB (Spanish Basketball Federation) to Lille.
As the new La Liga season begins, we are set to take one of the EA Sports teams to the Balearics and the Canaries. And then in September, we're operating sports charters to San Sebastián.
At the end of August we're flying the cyclists competing in the Vuelta Ciclista España from Granada-Jaén to Vigo.
Corporate charter flights
A percentage of our charter flights in this period is dedicated to incentive trips for companies.
B2
Iberia is assisting the sponsor of the Paris 2024 Olympics, Toyota, by bringing the employees back to Madrid. The flight has been chartered by Viajes NUBA, one of the travel agencies in Spain specialising in the MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions) sector.
Volkswagen has chartered our incentive flight services to take its employees from Munich to Barcelona.