Iceland’s PLAY recently announced four new routes from Reykjavik starting this summer. Three are in Denmark (Aalborg, Aarhus and Billund) and one is in Germany (Düsseldorf). This brings to 11 the number of new routes the airline currently plans to launch in 2023. The complete list is (weekly frequency at launch in brackets): Geneva on […]
January 10, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
PLAY (IATA code OG) now connects Reykjavik with Liverpool. The 1,635-kilometre route launched on Friday 7 October. Flights will operate 2-weekly with a second service on Mondays. The route is not flown by any other carrier. This makes Liverpool the airline’s second destination in the UK as it already serves London STN. Nearby Manchester is […]
October 11, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Icelandair (IATA code FI) began not one, but two new routes on Wednesday 6 July. That day saw the launch of 2-weekly service from Reykjavik KEF to both Nice in the south of France and Rome FCO. The 2,940-kilometre Nice service will operate on Wednesdays and Saturdays until 27 August. The 3,325-kilometre connection to the […]
July 13, 2022 | Latest Route News +
PLAY launched its 13th new route this summer when it began daily service on 9 June from Reykjavik KEF to New York SWF. The 4,110-kilometre route will be flown using the airline’s A320neos and A321neos. New York SWF previously welcomed European flights from Norwegian between June 2017 and September 2019. During that time the carrier […]
June 16, 2022 | Latest Route News +
PLAY (IATA code OG) continues to expand its presence across Europe’s airports. On Tuesday 24 May Brussels BRU welcomed 3-weekly service from Reykjavik KEF. The two other weekly services on the 2,150-kilometre route will take places on Thursdays and Saturdays using the airline’s A321s. A fourth frequency (on Wednesdays) is set to begin on 6 […]
June 1, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Icelandair (IATA code FI) has added Raleigh-Durham International Airport in North Carolina to its US network with the launch of a 4-weekly service from Reykjavik KEF on Thursday 11 May. The 4,850-kilometre route becomes the airline’s first new US route since the start of the pandemic and faces no direct competition. The new route will […]
May 19, 2022 | Latest Route News +
PLAY (IATA code OG) has followed the launch of its first US service from Reykjavik KEF (to Baltimore/Washington, launched on 20 April) with its second US service, this time to Boston in the state of Massachusetts. The first flight (OG 111) was on Wednesday 11 May. The 3,880-kilometre route will operate daily until the end […]
May 18, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Icelandic newcomer PLAY (IATA code OG) launched its first service to the US on Wednesday 20 April. The 4,445-kilometre service between Reykjavik KEF and Baltimore/Washington will operate daily using the airline’s A321neos. At present PLAY is the only carrier connecting the two airports. However, Icelandair will also start flying the route from 13 May, offering […]
April 28, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Icelandair has begun what will be a relatively short-lived service from Reykjavik to Salzburg in Austria. The first flight on the 2,800-kilometre route took place on Saturday 15 January. In a rather neat touch, the inaugural service was operated by one of the airline’s new 737 MAX 8s, with the registration TF-ICE. The weekly service […]
January 25, 2022 | Latest Route News +
PLAY (IATA code OG) became the latest airline to serve western Europe’s busiest airport when it began 2-weekly service (Mondays and Fridays) on 3 December from its home base at Reykjavik in Iceland to Amsterdam. The 2,040-kilometre route will be flown by the airline’s bright red A321neos, with the inaugural service of flight OG 460 […]
December 6, 2021 | Latest Route News +
July passenger data collected for airports across the Nordic and Baltic nations shows that Copenhagen was the region’s busiest airport with 1.23 million passengers, ahead of Oslo with 1.02 million passengers. Stockholm’s main airport was in third place with 880,000 passengers. Each of these three capital city airports has now recovered between 35% and 40% […]
August 23, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
Despite (as yet) no significant easing of the US’s entry restrictions regarding European nationals, US carriers have recently increased their services to Europe and even started new routes. One such is United Airlines’s new daily service between Washington IAD and Athens. The first flight (UA 982 operated by a Boeing 787-8, registration N45905) departed the […]
July 5, 2021 | Latest Route News +