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Icelandair is the largest Icelandic airline, with offices based in Reykjavík, operating services to 22 cities in 12 countries. Its flying base is Keflavík International Airport. Icelandair is a part of FL GROUP
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Corporate History
For corporate history, see FL GROUP - HistoryDestinations
In 2004 Icelandair flew 1,332,802 passengers on scheduled flights (more than 4 times the population of Iceland), with an associated seat-load factor of 74.5% (source: Icelandair 2004 Annual Report).
Destinations served from Iceland:
Europe
- Amsterdam, Netherlands (Schiphol Airport)
- Barcelona, Spain (El Prat International Airport) -seasonal
- Berlin, Germany (Tegel International Airport) -seasonal
- Frankfurt, Germany (Frankfurt International Airport)
- Glasgow, United Kingdom (Glasgow International Airport)
- Helsinki, Finland (Helsinki-Vantaa Airport) -seasonal
- London, United Kingdom (London Heathrow Airport)
- Madrid, Spain (Barajas International Airport) -seasonal
- Manchester, United Kingdom (Manchester International Airport) -seasonal
- Milan, Italy (Malpensa International Airport) -seasonal
- Munich, Germany (Munich International Airport) -seasonal
- Oslo, Norway (Oslo Airport)
- Paris, France (Charles De Gaulle International Airport)
- Stockholm, Sweden (Arlanda Airport)
- Zürich, Switzerland (Zürich International Airport) -seasonal
North America
- Baltimore/Washington, USA (Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport)
- Boston, USA (Logan International Airport)
- Minneapolis/St. Paul, USA (Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport)
- Orlando, USA (Orlando Sanford International Airport)
- New York City, USA (John F. Kennedy International Airport)
- San Francisco, USA (San Francisco International Airport) -seasonal
The airline is expanding into charter services with a new company that reuses the old name Loftleiðir. Loftleiðir Icelandic is now operating 6 Boeing 757-200s and 3 Boeing 767-300s. The company has 15 Boeing 737-800s on order. These aircraft will be leased to other companies.
Fleet
The Icelandair all-Boeing fleet consists of the following aircraft (at December 2005):
- 10 Boeing 757-200
- 1 Boeing 757-300
- 1 Boeing 767-300
- 0 Boeing 787 (4 on order)
On 28 February 2005 Icelandair signed a contract for two Boeing 787s for delivery in 2010 and purchase rights for 5 more.
On 5 April 2006 Icelandair signed a contract to exercise two of their five Boeing 787 purchase rights for delivery in 2010.
Information
- Initially Icelandair used Douglas DC-8 aircraft for their international routes. During the 1990s they acquired new Boeing 757s. In 1997 the airline established a subsidiary, Air Iceland, to operate domestic and some short-haul routes.
- The low-fares airline Iceland Express started competing with Icelandair on two routes in 2003, from Keflavík to Copenhagen and London.
- Some of the air traffic from the United States to Europe and vice versa flies over Iceland. Iceland has become a transfer point for people travelling from the U.S. to Europe and vice versa. This accounts for about 50 percent of the company's passenger traffic. Icelandair's stopover plan dates back to when Loftleidir Icelandic started the plan in 1963 on its transatlantic flights at no extra cost.
- When Flugfélag Íslands began international flights from Iceland, it used a Consolidated Catalina flying boat.
External links
References
- Icelandair.is – Sagan (Icelandair – History)
- Airline Codes Website
- Air International, April 2005
- Flight International, 5-11 April 2005
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