Level has just launched as an independent airline within the IAG group, which also includes Iberia, Vueling, British Airways, and Aer Lingus, after being created in 2017 as a commercial brand operated by Iberia. Rafael Jiménez Hoyos is in charge of piloting this new chapter for the low-cost carrier, which he joined at the end of 2014 with extensive experience in the aviation sector. Born in Albacete, his father worked as an aircraft mechanic, and he always knew he wanted to take to the skies in one of the planes he saw him working on. This led him to become a pilot, first in the military and then commercially. Trained at the General Air Academy in San Javier (Murcia), he eventually left the military to work for airlines such as Air Nostrum, Click Air, Vueling, and Iberia. He is passionate about flying, and it shows, as he constantly shares anecdotes from the many flights he has experienced. Every month he still boards Level planes as a captain to fly them to some of their destinations, going unnoticed by many of the company's employees. He attends to theCompanies From Level's headquarters in Viladecans, in the first interview given by the executive in this new phase.