The flight from Madrid to Lisbon is very short. It’s 1 hour and 25 minutes. The question is whether it would be worth burning points to fly business on Iberia or deal with peasant (see Points in the Front, Peasants in the Back). Curiously, I found that booking through Qatar using Avios was cheaper than booking directly on Iberia. For 12,500 points, I decided that I would go with business, much as I did when I flew from Madrid to Barcelona (see Iberia MAD-BCN: Some Funny Business).
With an 8-hour layover before my flight to Lisbon, the extra points expenditure was worth it for the lounge access (see En Route: Iberia’s Domestic Lounge Madrid).
