Iberia (airline) Deutsche Luft Hansa of 1.1 million pesetas. Flight operations started on 14 December 1927. Within a year, the company was sponsored by the Spanish government to provide postal transport between Madrid and Barcelona. During the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera, the aviation companies in Spain were combined and became state-controlled as a general interest public utility, coming into effect in early 1928. As a consequence, Iberia was merged into Compañía de Líneas Aéreas Subvencionadas "S.A." (CLASSA) and ceased activities as an independent airline on 29 May 1929. The name "Iberia" continued to be registered although the company airline did
Raoul and the Kings of Spain (song) co-produced the song) and bass player Gail Ann Dorsey. Raoul and the Kings of Spain (song) "Raoul and the Kings of Spain" is a song by the band Tears for Fears, released as the first single from their 1995 album of the same name. Upon its release, the single reached #31 in the UK and would be the band's last Top 40 hit there for ten years (until 2005's "Closest Thing to Heaven"). The song also reached #39 in Belgium (Wallonia) and #26 in Poland. "Raoul and the Kings of Spain" is about Roland Orzabal's Spanish heritage (Orzabal's father was