World2Fly will end Madrid-Havana flights in 2026

World2Fly is ending one of the clearest nonstop links between Spain and Cuba, and the cutoff lands while travelers were still booking spring and summer plans. The Iberostar-linked airline said Monday, May 18, that it will permanently stop the Madrid-Havana-Madrid route, with the last scheduled flight set for May 20, 2026. The notice was relayed with Onlinetours, the agency that sold the route and handled customer communication in Havana and Madrid.

For passengers, the immediate loss is practical and blunt: one fewer direct way into Cuba from Spain. That hits family visits, diaspora travel between Madrid and Havana, and leisure trips bound for Havana, Varadero and other Cuban destinations that depend on Spanish visitors, package tours and hotel tie-ins. Spain has long been central to Cuba’s tourism network, so pulling a direct link from that corridor does more than change a timetable. It strips out another booking option and leaves travelers with less flexibility when they try to match flights with hotel stays, holiday dates and return trips.

The fare impact is likely to be felt quickly. When a nonstop route loses seats, the pressure usually shifts to the remaining options, making last-minute tickets harder to find and more expensive. That matters most for travelers who need fixed dates, especially families splitting time between Spain and Cuba and Cubans abroad who plan visits around school breaks, holidays and short windows off work. The end of this route also makes trip planning more fragile, because one schedule change can now ripple across an already thin market.

World2Fly had already cut one of its two weekly Madrid-Havana frequencies from March 15 to June 28, 2026, citing fuel shortages in Cuba. Flight-tracking pages still showed a World2Fly departure scheduled for May 20 and a recent Havana-bound flight on May 13, a reminder that the route was still active even as the shutdown was being set in motion. World2Fly’s own website still listed Havana among its destinations.

Onlinetours says it has specialized in Cuba since 1999 and operates from Havana, Madrid, Barcelona and Las Palmas, which made it the customer-facing channel for the change. That is fitting for a route tied to a small long-haul operator. World2Fly, founded by Iberostar, received its first Airbus A350-900 in June 2021 and runs a limited wide-body fleet, so each route decision carries extra weight across the company’s network.

Taken together, the cancellation looks less like an isolated timetable tweak than another step in a broader retreat from Spain-Cuba air links. The direct bridge is being narrowed, and travelers staring at that May 20 departure are seeing the shape of it disappear in real time.