A previous IAG order for 20 Airbus A320neos will be placed with Iberia, the airline said Wednesday. The aircraft were previously announced as part of a much larger batch of orders and options taken out by IAG in Aug 2013. It then converted 20 of those options unto firm orders in Aug 2015, but said at that point that the aircraft could be allocated to any airline in the group. Iberia’s chairman and CE, Luis Gallego, said the aircraft would be used to modernise the company’s short- and medium-haul fleet. The aircraft will be delivered from the first half of 2018 through 2021. The A320neo order follows the modernisation of Iberia’s long-haul fleet which began in 2013. This involves 39 new aircraft joining the fleet through 2021, including 16 Airbus A350-900s, the first of them being delivered in 2018. <br/>