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Old 9th Nov 2012, 11:21
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SLF3
 
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Iberia have a good long haul product (better seats than TAM, everything else equal) and operate out of a first class hub airport. Their niche (South America) is booming. They should make money.

If you look along the ramp the fleet looks coherent - Airbus on every tail. I have not personally experienced poor customer service from Iberia, though their web services are a disaster.

I guess they need to scale back their short haul operations to a feeder operation (ideally out of a single terminal) and let other short haul go to lower cost competitors.
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