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Passenger planes flown by KLM, Iberia, and Air France were unwittingly also used to transport cocaine in smuggled loads of 50 kilos per trip from South American airports.

Both the DEA, Spanish police, and Chilean law officials have named former social welfare recipient Morris O'Shea Salazar as the head of the gang.

He is accused of running logistics for the cartel based out of a luxury apartment in Barcelona.

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What's the earliest and latest you've ever booked a business class flight and what were they?

So earliest, furthest out is exactly 361 days, which I did last week when I booked two Iberia business class seats from, in this case, DC Dulles to Madrid for next fall.

My wife and I are going to a friend's wedding just outside of Dublin.

So I'm going to cross the Atlantic and then make our way up into Ireland.

And we booked that at exactly 7 p.m. Eastern time, which is when the airline, in this case, Iberia, loads the next day's flights as far out in the calendar as they do, which was the key because right at 7 p.m. Eastern, that's when I saw that those flights were available.

Latest, closest in, exactly four days before departure, Lufthansa first class.

I already had some business class seats booked to get over to Italy for another friend's wedding in 2021.

Yeah, I'd add Air Serbia to that list as well.

It's just another word for points or miles, but for a specific currency.

So it's the points currency shared by British Airways, Qatar, Aer Lingus, Iberia, and Finnair.

And the magic is that you can move your Avios around and within those five different programs.

So if one has a transfer bonus, like let's say Qatar, has a transfer bonus, you could move points into that Qatar account and then move them from Qatar into British Airways into any of the other programs.

This is a 20% transfer bonus through October 31st.

It's a flat 20%, no different tiering structure here.

And then if you wanted to move it from British Airways over to Qatar or over to Iberia, Finnair or Aer Lingus, you can do that from British Airways as well.

So here's the math if you wanted to fly, for example, Q Suites at a saver rate using these different transfer bonuses.

We work with 30 different airline partners, so I can get you the exact list.

It might be even here somewhere, but I believe it's through the Flying Blue, Iberia, Delta, United, American, ANA.

Air Canada, Life Miles, Smiles.

So there's 30 different plus programs.

Indeed, they probably did.

After all, the man sitting in the right-hand seat was a 24-year-old new hire with Iberia.

He had just over 400 hours of flying time on the Airbus A320, which meant that this would be one of his first flights carrying passengers.

he would be flying the

As the pilots of flight 1456 made their descent towards the airport, they were being thrown about by strong turbulence.

This surprised them, as the weather reports they had received minutes earlier indicated that the winds were light.

However, the Iberia Company manual had warned them that when the wind was coming from the south or southwest, which it was on this night, they should expect wind shear and turbulence.

It also said that no flight should be conducted into Bilbao if the wind was higher than 20 knots at the airport.

However, there was one issue that the controller hadn't accounted for.

A few miles ahead of flight 1008 was another plane, a slower turboprop operated by Iberia, Spain's national airline.

The 727 flown by the Danair crew was significantly faster than the turboprop, and they were rapidly catching up with the aircraft in front.

An additional problem was that the controller didn't have radar.

At 18 minutes past one, the pilots of flight 1008 reported to ATC that they had passed the Tenerife North beacon.

The controller was surprised that the crew had passed this beacon so soon.

He realized that the Danair flight was traveling much faster than the Iberia turboprop ahead, so he decided to put the Danair plane into a holding pattern above the airport to give the Iberia plane time to land.

There was an issue, however.

Was it American Airlines? It was

American Airlines, which is who Iberia went through for this, which kind of lines up.

Yeah, they ended up getting me stuck in Miami after leaving Cuba and would not let me go any further at that point.

And I was with my mother, and they wouldn't let us go forward.

Okay.

And what I hate most about this whole thing is the traveling aspect of it.

The Iberia airlines we took, and I'll go on record to say they suck.

It's a technical term, but it is the ultimate suck.

All the major European carriers set up routes to the Far East via Anchorage in the 1960s and '70s.

While Anchorage sees only a few dozen daily commercial flights, mostly to the continental US today, in the 1970s, it was served by Air France, SAS, KLM, Iberia, Lufthansa, Japan Airlines, Korean Air, and more.

This tiny town in Alaska quickly became one of the most connected and cosmopolitan areas of the world, with passengers and flight crews from all around the world stopping over, all because of where it was.

As aircraft became more advanced with longer range, there were a few airlines that managed to avoid stopping in Anchorage on their way from Europe to East-

But Air France is the only French airline with Siberian overflight rights.

Lufthansa is the only German airline with overflight rights.

Iberia is the only Spanish airline with overflight rights, and so on and so forth.

For the longest while, this wasn't a problem.