Question About Iberia

Comet · Post by **Comet** » 30 Sep 2003, 15:31

I don't know if I'm in the right section of the forum for this, but I hope I am!

Are there any Iberia experts out there who can answer this (I've looked on the search engines to find an answer but only get German language sites).

Did Iberia ever run services from Tenerife to El Aiun in Western Sahara, Africa? If so, what aircraft was used?

If Iberia didn't run these services, then which (Spanish) airline did?

Comet · Post by **Comet** » 30 Sep 2003, 16:39

The report on my first ever flight(s) will be a bit incomplete without this info, but I will still post the report with whatever info I can get.

Post by **sn26567** » 30 Sep 2003, 17:17

Comet wrote:Did Iberia ever run services from Tenerife to El Aiun in Western Sahara, Africa?

Are you sure of the name of the destination? I looked in the OAG and they don't find any airport with that name.

I have a nephew working at Iberia Reservations in Madrid. I can ask him...

Post by **sn26567** » 30 Sep 2003, 17:21

Could your destination have been this one?

Name: Aioun El Atrouss
IATA: IEO
ICAO: GQNA
Aioun El Atrouss, Mauritania
Latitude: 16°42' 40" N
Longitude: 9°38' 16" W
Elevation: 951
Runway Length: 5245 Feet

That's the only one I could find. And no scheduled airline flies there.

Comet · Post by **Comet** » 30 Sep 2003, 19:41

Andre - that may be the one.

Western Sahara is a disputed territory, which is shown on modern maps as being part of Morocco. It does border Mauritania.

It used to be called Spanish Sahara back in the 1970s. There were flights from Tenerife to El Aiun because I went on one! I was only four at the time, but my Mum tells me it was a Spanish airline, and I thought naturally of Iberia and their DC9s (it was a rear boarding jet), but then I saw something about another airline which used to fly services from the Canary Islands.

No airline probably flies there now because it is one of the places they tell travellers not to head to.

meerkat · Post by **meerkat** » 30 Sep 2003, 21:05

Could have been a Caravelle which had an under fuselage door at the rear and was operated by Iberia and Aviaco plus others.

Meerkat

Comet · Post by **Comet** » 01 Oct 2003, 09:55

I had also thought of the Caravelle, then last night we were looking at photos of the trip and found a picture of an Iberia 727 with steps up to the rear door, but I don't know if this was our aircraft.

qnnm · Post by **qnnm** » 11 Oct 2003, 22:42

According to the Iberia timetable (1 nov 1972 - 31 mar 1973).

daily IB550 Fokker 27 : TFS 07h55 ---- 08h55 EL AAIUN
daily IB559 Fokker 27 : EL AAIUN 18h05 --- 19h10 TFS

LPA-EL AAIUN -LPA had 3 daily non stops (F27 and DC9)

MAD-SVQ-EL AAIUN-LPA-TFS (rt) : 4 x week DC9
MAD-AGP-EL-AAIUN-LPA-TFS (rt) : 1 x week DC9

Lien · Post by **Lien** » 11 Oct 2003, 23:21

Note that also the DC-9 and B727 carry a 'under fuselage' door. Both were in Iberia service.

Lien !

qnnm · Post by **qnnm** » 11 Oct 2003, 23:33

I think that the first IB 727 was delivered in early 1973.
Ms Comet's flight was apparently in 1970 ?

Lien · Post by **Lien** » 12 Oct 2003, 00:05

But the DC-9's were introduced at the end of the 60's.

Lien !

Comet · Post by **Comet** » 12 Oct 2003, 12:05

qnnm wrote:I think that the first IB 727 was delivered in early 1973.
Ms Comet's flight was apparently in 1970 ?

My flight was not in 1970, believe me, I would never have remembered anything in that year!!!

My flight was after 1973, and we did see the Iberia 727 (I'll try and post a photo of it for you), but I believe it may have been a DC9 (it was not F27 because it was a rear-loading jet and not a prop - the F27 has steps which form part of the front door).

Thanks anyway for the info.

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