Spanish flag carrier Iberia has announced plans to launch flights between Madrid and Cairo, Egypt, starting in March 2020.

The carrier will operate four weekly flights with an A319 aircraft which can accommodate up to 141 customers, distributed in Business and Economy cabins, it said in a statement.

Iberia will be offering more than 1,100 seats each week on this route, it said.

The flight schedule will allow Iberia customers flying from Egypt to continue their trip via Madrid airport to other 21 destinations in Spain such as Bilbao, Valencia, Seville, Malaga or Alicante, or Porto in Portugal. They will also be able to fly to 25 cities in the US and Latin America.

To celebrate the launch of this new route, Iberia is offering return tickets from Cairo to Madrid priced at €239 ($268.2).

Cairo will become Iberia's seventh destination in the African continent, where it also serves Casablanca, Tangiers and Marrakech in Morocco; Algiers and Oran in Algeria, and Dakar in Senegal. - TradeArabia News Service