Madrid Airport (MAD) — Direct Flights, Airlines, USD Fares | Spain

Adolfo Suarez Madrid-Barajas (MAD, ICAO LEMD) serves Madrid, Spain and is a destination reached by travellers flying from across Africa. It is the based hub of IB. Our catalogue links 0 direct destinations out of MAD and 1 African origin into it, served by 2 carriers.

At a glance

1 catalogued corridor touch Madrid (MAD / LEMD) in Spain: 0 outbound and 1 inbound, flown by 2 carriers, with IB based here. 0 of those corridors carry a cached USD quote in our fare file; the rest are catalogued on schedule evidence alone. The mix runs 1 sector under four hours, 0 of four to seven and 0 beyond seven.

The route mix at MAD splits into 1 short sector under four hours, 0 medium sectors of four to seven hours and 0 long-haul sectors beyond seven — a profile that tells you what the terminal is actually built around. 1 of the corridors here is flagged in our data as labour-migration or diaspora routes, where checked-baggage terms drive booking decisions more than schedule does.

Two codes, two uses. MAD is the IATA code you will see on a ticket, a baggage tag and a departure board, while LEMD is the ICAO code used in flight plans, NOTAMs and air-traffic filing. They are not interchangeable: IATA codes are reused across the world’s smaller fields and are the ones that cause mis-booking, which is why every corridor on this site is keyed on the pair of codes rather than a city name.

Airlines serving MAD

2 carriers appear on the MAD corridors catalogued here, 1 of them with a row in our carrier file, recording checked-baggage baselines of 23 kg, and 1 of those row sits inside a global alliance (Oneworld 1). That list is built from the 1 corridors this site catalogues through MAD, so it is our coverage rather than the airport’s full published schedule.

These carriers operate the MAD corridors catalogued on this site. Adolfo Suarez Madrid-Barajas is the based hub of IB, which anchors most of its schedule and connecting bank.

Alliance spread decides how easily a disruption at MAD gets fixed. With 1 Oneworld carrier on these corridors, a passenger stuck here can sometimes be reflowed onto a partner without a new ticket — but only within the same alliance, and only when the original ticket permits it. Between alliances, re-accommodation is a commercial favour rather than an entitlement.

Top routes into MAD

9/10 is the highest demand score on any MAD corridor in our catalogue — Casablanca to Madrid (CMN–MAD), about 21 flights a week on AT and IB. Demand score is this catalogue’s own 1-10 editorial rating across 1 corridor at MAD, not a passenger count from a civil-aviation authority.

Sorted by demand; the USD market-low column is the cheapest fare our cache has seen on the corridor across all carriers.

Three corridors carry roughly 100% of the 21 weekly departures our catalogue records at MAD, which makes the airport two different places depending on which flight you hold. Dense routes absorb disruption within the day. Thin ones do not, and rebooking onto another airline needs an interline agreement rather than goodwill.

Block times across these corridors run from about 1.5 h to 1.5 h. That range is the practical reason a single connecting-time rule does not work at MAD: a short regional inbound and a long-haul outbound have very different delay profiles, and a tight self-built connection between them is where most missed onward flights on this site’s corridors happen. On separate tickets there is no protection at all.

Corridors and typical fares from MAD

0 of the 1 MAD corridors carry a cached USD quote, so most pricing here is planning-band rather than observed. Fares are quoted in USD across the whole site so corridors from different African markets stay comparable. Sector length drives the shape: 1 run under four hours, 0 four to seven and 0 beyond seven.

Most MAD corridors here serve diaspora and long-haul family travellers. The mix is 1 short intra-Africa hop (under 4 h). 1 are labour-migration or diaspora corridors where extra-baggage allowances matter. USD fares vary by corridor — intra-Africa typically $400–900, Gulf hubs $500–1,200, long-haul $800–2,200; each per-route guide below carries live cached fares.

The shape of the fare curve follows the sector length. The 1 short corridor under four hours from MAD price like regional traffic and move mostly with the day of the week; the 0 long-haul corridors beyond seven hours move with season and school holidays, and can double between the cheapest and dearest month in our own cache. Mixing the two on one average would be meaningless, which is why every corridor page carries its own floor.

Direct flights to MAD — 1 route

1 catalogued route is listed below for MAD, reaching 1 country, led by Morocco. Our catalogue records 0 departure and 1 arrival corridor at MAD, each linking to a corridor guide with carriers, frequency, block time and any cached fare. The list is this site’s catalogue, not the airport’s timetable.

• CMN -> MAD

These are guides, not booking screens. Behind each link sit the operating carriers, an estimated weekly frequency, the scheduled nonstop block time, the great-circle distance that would determine an EU261 or UK261 band where either regulation reaches the corridor, and any cached fare evidence we hold. Price is the last of those to matter, not the first.

What you are looking at is our coverage of Madrid, not its published schedule. Corridors enter the catalogue on audience relevance — diaspora, pilgrimage, intra-Africa and business demand — which means a seasonal or thin regional service can operate here without appearing above. Absence from this list is an editorial boundary, not a claim that a route does not exist.

Hub airlines based at MAD

1 carrier bases an operation at Madrid (MAD): IB (IB), on 1 catalogued corridor. A based carrier is where the airport’s recovery capacity lives. Across the 1 corridors catalogued at MAD, a based operation is what makes a same-day recovery realistic; an outstation carrier usually has one rotation and no local engineering.

IB

Hub status is operational, not marketing. A carrier that bases aircraft and crew at MAD builds connecting banks around it, holds spare capacity there, and can usually re-crew or swap metal the same day. The same airline at an outstation typically has one rotation and no local engineering, so an identical technical fault produces a two-hour delay at the hub and an overnight at the outstation.

It also shapes price. The based carrier usually sets the fare level on corridors out of Madrid and competitors price against it, which is why a hub airport is rarely the cheapest place to originate on its own home routes. Where our cache shows an unusually low floor at MAD, it is normally a competing carrier buying share rather than the hub carrier discounting.

FAQ

5 questions below answer what travellers ask most often about this page’s subject, drawn from the same route, carrier, airport and fare files as everything above. Where a figure is missing from our data, the answer says so rather than estimating.

How is MAD airport connected? MAD (Madrid) is reachable on 1 direct route in our catalogue — see the full route list above.

What are the IATA and ICAO codes for MAD airport? The IATA code is MAD and the ICAO code is LEMD. The airport serves Madrid, Spain.

Which airlines are based at MAD? Hub carriers at MAD: IB.

How can I check fares and schedules for routes through MAD? Each route in the list above links to a guide with live USD fares, weekly frequency and the airlines that operate it.

Which airlines fly from MAD? Carriers on MAD corridors catalogued here: Royal Air Maroc, IB. See the airlines table above for alliance and baggage.

How current are these numbers? Routes, carriers and airports come from data files refreshed with each content cycle; fares come from a Travelpayouts cache with a weekly history log behind it. Each page states its own last-updated date.

Related

1 related page follow. Each is linked because it shares an endpoint, a carrier, a country or an audience cluster with this one — the annotations say what each adds, so the ones that do not apply to your trip can be skipped.

• Flights to Spain — country landing page: 1 catalogued corridor from African airports, carriers, visa row and the USD fare floor we have on file.

Internal links on this site are placed from the data, not from a keyword list: a corridor is linked when it shares an origin, a destination, a carrier or an audience cluster with the page you are on. If a link above looks unrelated to your trip, it probably shares a carrier or a hub rather than a destination.

Corridor pages carry the per-route detail — carriers, weekly frequency, scheduled block time, great-circle distance and whatever the fare cache holds. Airport pages carry the full catalogued route list at that field, the based hub carriers and the compensation regime of the country it sits in. Carrier pages carry the baggage baseline, alliance and the network as this catalogue records it.