Kepler never sleeps! This is how categorical the members of the Kepler team are, a project in continuous evolution that, hand in hand with our airports, manages the operations, and all those involved in them, for the dispatch of an aircraft. This week, for the first time in two years, the whole team got back together again in Madrid to prepare the Kepler deployments at the airports of Mallorca, Malaga and Alicante, as well as to continue improving the tool at the airports where it is already in use. The configuration of the planning rules and the training of our agents are key aspects of change management at the airports. The role of the Kepler team consists of parameterising the new tool to the needs of each stopover, leading the training of the agents and accompanying the local team at all times as experts in the tool.
Francisca Carbonell, coordinator of Mallorca Airport and part of the Kepler team, comments that “we have been participating in this project for many months, with many good moments in our backpacks and many lessons learned from the 23 airports where Kepler has already landed. After this week of preparation, we are looking forward to kicking off in Palma”.
José Manuel Arroniz, Chief Agent in Alicante, says that “one of the most enriching tasks of the project for me has been to train so many different colleagues; each team is new and we learn things at each airport. It makes us grow professionally and personally. I have no doubt that the deployment in Malaga and Alicante is going to be a success”.
Check out our website to find out more about Kepler and the value it brings to the Iberia Airport Services operations team and our customers: https://handling.iberia.es/kepler/

Iberia employs 6,023 women. Engineers, maintenance technicians, pilots, flight attendants, administrative staff, check-in and boarding agents… Eight of them talk to El Español’s MagasIN about their careers and equality.
Ana María Zapata is head ramp agent at Iberia Airport Services at Barajas airport. She works in a group where the presence of women is still scarce, only 9% of the workforce.
There are very hard days, in inclement weather, but “my experience at Iberia is very good”.
The most positive thing recently, she says, “has been to see, once again, the quality of the human capital that makes up Iberia’s workforce”. During the pandemic, Iberia converted three of its passenger aircraft into freighters. “Loading aircraft in bulk was a laborious and even tedious job, but we all knew that the company was making an effort to be active and we were proud to be able to lend a hand,” he concludes.

Maria Guilarte is Senior Passenger Service Manager at Madrid airport. An industrial and aeronautical engineer, she has worked in different areas of the company since she joined Iberia in 2008. She recognises that “in Airports I have experienced one of my most intense periods: the most beautiful thing was receiving all those repatriated during the harsh pandemic or, if I think of another type of emotion, Filomena was also very hard, I spent several days at the airport, without setting foot in my house”.

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Iberia is firmly committed to achieving the decarbonisation of air transport and to this end is implementing a whole range of initiatives in all its areas of operation. One of these is the renewal of Iberia Airport Services’ fleet of mobile equipment.
Over the last year we have strengthened our collaboration with the most important manufacturers of ground equipment in our sector (COBUS, ITW, TLD, GUINAULT, CHARLATTE and JBT) to lead tests with electrical equipment from different families (GPU, pushback, gardener, electric tractor, platform) at airports such as Palma de Mallorca, Malaga, Barcelona and Madrid.
The incorporation of this equipment into our fleet means qualitative and quantitative improvements both for climate change and for the user of this equipment.

•  Emissions, noise and vibrations are reduced to zero, thus achieving a cleaner airport environment.
•  They are user-friendly and well accepted by users.
•  They are safer due to their advanced technology.
•  Their preventive and corrective maintenance is more economical in the long term.
• They have lithium batteries in many cases, which improves their energy efficiency.

We have also renewed the Management System certified by the ISO 14.001:2015 standard, which demonstrates our commitment to reducing the environmental impact, also of our handling activity. These initiatives are part of the company’s Sustainability Plan, which cuts across all areas. At Iberia Airport Services we work every day to reduce CO2 emissions together with manufacturers, suppliers and institutions such as AENA and to seek optimal solutions that maximise the level of operation we offer our customers, without forgetting the environment.