INTERO
Hello and welcome to this flight-report from Tel Aviv (TLV) to Madrid (MAD) with Iberia.
FIRST THING IS THE ROUTING OF THIS TRIP!
Flight routing
- 1Tel Aviv TLV - Madrid MAD Iberia A330-300
- 2Madrid MAD - Tel Aviv TLV Air Europa Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner
INTroduction
I bought the ticket one month before the flight. I was sitting with my friend and we thought about a nice destination that we can visit with a flight on a wide-body jet.
Surprisingly I find a one-way ticket from Tel Aviv to Madrid on Iberia for only 79$! This fare is extremely cheap!
The return flight I bought with Air Europa on their Dreamliner for 80$. They don't have the ideal hours on the way to TLV (Take off at 9 AM) but the fare was also extremely cheap so I use their service and flew with them the return flight
Information about the activity of iberia in israel
Iberia operates up to 7 weekly flight on Madrid - Tel Aviv route since 2018.
The flight are usually operate on LEVEL's Airbus A330-200 that don't contain flat bed business class (During the Omicron Varient time flights were operated by smaller Airbus A320neo.
Sometimes A330-200 and A330-300 operates the route. The Premium Economy seats on the A330-300 sell as "XL Seat" for 22 eur per direction.
THE DAY OF THE FLIGHT TO MADRID
We left my house at 1:30 AM and had a 30 min driving. We left my house early as some roads were blocked due to night construction.
After arriving at Ben Gurion Airport we went to the check-in counters.
The way to the duty free and the airside area:
spotting at tlv airport
British Airways Boeing 777-200ER landed from London (LHR):
Air Europa Boeing 737-800 landed from Madrid (MAD)
Arkia Embarer E195 will take off to Batumi (BUS):
Turkish Airlines (Operated by AndoluJet) Boeing 737-800 will take off to Istanbul (SAW):
Lufthansa Airbus A320 landed from Munich (MUC):
Israir Airbus A320 landed from Dubai (DXB):
Pegasus Airlines Airbus A321neo will depart to Istanbul (SAW):
Pegasus Airlines Airbus A320 will depart to Antalya (AYT):
El Al Boeing 737-800 landed from Amsterdam (AMS) and Aegean Airbus A320 will depart to Athens (ATH):
Freebird Airbus A320 will fly to Antalya (AYT):
Virgin Atlantic Airbus A330-300 landed from London (LHR):
Swiss Airbus A340-300 landed from Zurich (ZRH), you can also spot our aircraft:
Aegean Airlines Airbus A320 will depart to Athens (ATH):
And finally It is possible to spot our beauty Airbus A330-300 that will take us to Madrid!
time to board to the aircraft
Boarding was made on time at 4:45AM, 45 minutes before the schedule departure
In the jetbridge:
One last step before enter to the plane:
iberia a330-300 cabin
Iberia's Airbus A330-300 have 3 serving classes: Business, Premium Economy and Economy. As I wrote before we sat at the Premium Economy section for only 22EUR per passenger!
business class
economy class
This is the pitch in Economy Class, not too bad (I'm 1.76)
premium economy
Generous legroom and big screen in front of me!
Cabin is separated from the Economy Class and contains only 21 seats (3 rows of 2-3-2 configuration). Pretty good deal for 22EUR!
We were sitting in the cabin more that 30 minutes until taxi. A view of the Entertainment options (Also got the Business Class's headphones while the Economy Class passengers got inearphones:
FLIGHT EXPERIENCE
On the radar!
The wing view:
We took of at 6:00AM, 30 minutes ahead of the schedule:
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The inflight map while leaving Israel:
Shortly after takeoff, a light meal was served. Actually, I excepted to get a hot meal for a 5.5-hour flight but those are COVID dates…
We'd got alcoholic beverages and unlimited soft drinks.
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After the snack service I took a nap and woke up for a sunrise's view over the south Italian coast:
The flight path:
I used the wifi of the aircraft to get some information about the flight and the weather in Madrid:
Pitch is generous for a premium economy seat:
Good morning world:
After 4 hours of flying we started our descend to Madrid:
Beautiful views of Spain:
Cabin before landing:
Almost there:
We landed in Madrid Barajas Airport and soon started our taxi to the gate in Terminal 4:
Parked near another Airbus A330 of Iberia:
Disembarking this wonderful bird:
Bye bye our A330-300!
It was a long way to the passport control and to the baggage claim, we also took a train to terminal 4S:
Time to take our luggage and to enjoy the city of Madrid!
Hi Yonatan, nice to see one of your reports!
It's nice that so many European carriers are flying widebodies to TLV again. Being able to get a Premium Economy seat for only 22 EUR more on an already good fare is a really good deal for such a long flight. Since they're sold as XL seats on this route, I'd get it for free with my oneworld status, yay.
While the meal isn't up to the standards of true long-haul flights, it is free and has some fresh items, while meals on slightly shorter flights like ATH-MAD have buy-on-board only. And free wine/beer is nice too.
Thanks for sharing!