Airline Weekly
• Gordon Smith, Jay Shabat
Iberia’s turnaround: from near-failure to Ryanair-like profitability—and the question of durability
Once fighting for survival, Iberia has been transformed into a “margin machine,” with a performance profile now likened to Ryanair’s. The cluster examines what drove the carrier’s shift from loss-making legacy operations to sustained profitability, and whether that model can keep holding.
