Avios booking IB265: Wamos operating? Business cabin 1-1-1?

[FiduCia]

Hi all,

I have an Avios redemption booked on IB265 from Madrid to Santo Domingo on 26 September 2025. When I booked, it was scheduled to be operated by Iberia.

I’ve now noticed the flight shows as operated by Wamos Air, which isn’t exactly what I was hoping for in terms of product.

What puzzles me is that when I check the Iberia seat map for my booking, it’s displaying a 1-1-1 configuration in the business cabin. That doesn’t match anything I’ve seen before on Iberia’s own A330/A350 fleet, and it doesn’t look like Wamos’s standard layout either.

Has anyone else seen this? Is Iberia actually leasing an aircraft with a 1-1-1 config for this route, or is the seat map just wrong?

Also interested to know if anyone has flown IB265 recently and can confirm whether it’s actually Iberia metal or Wamos operating.

Thanks in advance for any insights!

[RV]

I had exactly the same on my way back from Cuba last year.

In the end it was a 2 x 2 x 2 layout. Service was Iberia, but on a very old Wamos aircraft… and the seat very uncomfortable. Also it wouldn’t actually lie flat. Overall it felt more like an enhanced premium economy seat.

Straight away after landing I got an email from Iberia with a 15% discount for future bookings.

I put two formal complaints requesting for compensation on the avios paid but didn’t really follow through after they denied it twice and I just couldn’t be bothered anymore.

I researched back then and I think they were using Wamos quite extensively on flights to Cuba and Venezuela.