The Spanish carrier, which is part of International Consolidated Airlines Group who also own British Airways, Vueling and Aer Lingus, has already been through two major rounds of redundancies in times. So far they have axed around 4,500 employees and its hoped this latest round of 955 would mostly come from voluntary redundancies and some early retirement plans.
Iberia are also planning more job cuts next year to further streamline the Spanish operation despite huge profits for IAG, it is expected they will be announced in February or March.
