According to breaking news reports this evening in Spain, Iberia Airlines will suspend all flights as of 12:01 AM Friday the 13th!
Management has stated that because of the extremely negative attitude of the pilots, they don't want to risk the safety of their passengers!

Since I am booked on an Iberia flight leaving Chicago for Madrid on July 14th, I hope your message is some terrible Friday 13th joke! Please, someone, assuage my worries

I confirm it.

According to TV news Iberia has cancelled all flights from 00:00 hours of the 13th of July ahead. By now it's not known when they will begin to operate normally (but probably at least a couple of days).

The reasons are that a hundred managers which were also pilots had resigned of their posts (it may be or may be not linked to the strikes). This is really disgusting...

I called American Airlines (they booked me on the Iberia flight) and they say that the strike is only affecting flights within Spain, not international flights. I hope that is true. Anyone hear differently?

Sorry to say, but I've just seen a Telecinco news report here in Spain, and this suspension affects all Iberia flights. They said that this is some 600 flights, nearly half of which are international.

An addition to the previous: All code-sharing flights for the moment are still operating plus Binter Canarias.

Victoria, thank you for the good news from the Canaries. American Airlines is still not responding to the news, so I am starting to make backup plans. Better safe than sorry

The mediareports that the new conflict (the pilots who resigned, who took care of executive matters) is solved by now, and the programmed flights will go on as scheduled. Those not affected before this new episode.

I would like somebody to confirm this for the travellers.

Pilots used their last weapon to force the company into accepting their conditions, so the pilots dedicated to coordinate Iberia's operations(around 100) resigned. The answer was the closing at 12:00. At 3:00am today, the goverment stated to both parties that the situation could be declared a National emergency unless they inmediately got into the path the law sets for these conflicts. Basically they have 2 days to find an independent advisor (accepted by both parties) that will decide in 4 days on the subject with no appeal possible. If they fail on doing this, the goverment will appoint an advisor of their confidence.

In fact the goverment was seriously advising both company and the union of the potential consequences for both of them of putting at risk the future of the main industry of the country for such a small question.

At 5:00am Iberia resumed operations as it nothing has happened, flights of today have been smooth as ever.....To continue...

Renfe joined in yesterday... took an hour to get home