Another new development in 2026 is the addition of a Spanish airline, IBERIA, which will begin operating flights from Toronto to Madrid next June.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith this meeting between His Majesty the King and representatives of the airlines, the \u00a0Spain Tourism Office in Canada wished to highlight this significant growth and the strengthening of the connection between the two countries,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
Airline execs in attendance included \u2026<\/p>\n
Air Canada
.Daniela Mauro \u2013 Director, International Affairs and Facilitation
. Joseph Malalla \u2013 Principal, International Affairs
. Aaron Balinsky Director, Market Development & Sales Strategy<\/p>\n
WestJet<\/p>\n
. Steve Mc Clelland \u2013 VP Loyalty, Commercial & Business Development
. Sam Taylor \u2013 Group\u00a0Executive VP and Chief Experience Officer<\/p>\n
Iberia
. Juan Cierco \u2013 Corporate Director<\/p>\n
Air Transat
. Annick Gu\u00e9rard \u2013 \u00a0President and CEO
. Sebastian Ponce \u2013 Chief Revenue Officer<\/p>\n
Also in attendance were the First Vice-President of the Government of Spain and Minister of Economy, Trade and Business, Carlos Cuervo Caballero and the President of Airbus in Spain, Francisco Javier S\u00e1nchez Segura, as well as the Ambassador of Canada in Spain, and the Ambassador of Spain in Canada.<\/p>\n
Lead image caption: His Majesty King Felipe VI of Spain (centre) meets with executives from Air Canada, Air Transat, WestJet and Iberia and other dignitaries at a Fairmont Royal York event hosted by the Consul for Tourism Affairs in Canada (Spain Tourism Office in Canada (photo credit Casa de S.M. el Rey)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another new development in 2026 is the addition of a Spanish airline, IBERIA, which will begin operating flights…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10568,17],"class_list":["post-29523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-lead-story","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}