IAG-owned carrier LEVEL secures own AOC, to use own two-letter code from 2025

LEVEL, the budget long-haul brand owned by International Airlines Group (IAG), has secured its own air operator’s certificate (AOC) and will commence flights as a separate legal entity using its own two-letter flight prefix code in 2025. The carrier has also announced fleet expansion plans, with a seventh Airbus A330-200 due to be added to its fleet “within weeks”.

The process of securing a separate AOC for LEVEL began back in 2023 with IAG wanting to run the airline as a separate entity with its own accounting, operational, and legal processes. Initially set up in 2017, LEVEL has up until now been operating as a subsidiary of Iberia, Spain’s national airline and a keystone member of IAG, along with British Airways. Other airlines operating in the Group include Irish carrier Aer Lingus, and low-cost airline Vueling.

According to LEVEL’s CEO Rafael Jiménez Hoyos, who took the reins of the Spanish carrier in October 2024, LEVEL securing its own AOC provides the carrier “with greater agility to achieve its strategic objectives.”

“This milestone marks the beginning of a new stage, in which we will continue working with the same commitment to consolidate LEVEL as an efficient, innovative, and customer-oriented airline, connecting Barcelona with the world directly and without stops,” Jiménez Hoyos added.

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