is the largest
Iceland ic
Airline , wirh offices based in
Reykjavík . It operates services to 21 cities in 12 countries. Its flying base is
Keflavík International Airport . ''Icelandair'' is a part of
FL GROUP
For corporate history, see
FL GROUP - History
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:
- Glasgow , United Kingdom ( Glasgow International Airport )
- Manchester , United Kingdom ( Manchester International Airport )
- London , United Kingdom ( London Heathrow Airport )
- Amsterdam , Netherlands ( Schiphol Airport )
- Paris , France ( Charles De Gaulle International Airport )
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- Copenhagen , Denmark ( Copenhagen Airport )
- Stockholm , Sweden ( Arlanda Airport )
- Helsinki , Finland ( Helsinki-Vantaa Airport )
- Berlin , Germany ( Tegel International Airport )
- Frankfurt , Germany ( Frankfurt International Airport )
- Munich , Germany ( Munich International Airport )
- Zurich , Switzerland ( Zurich International Airport )
- Milan , Italy ( Malpensa International Airport )
- Madrid , Spain ( Barajas International Airport )
- Barcelona , Spain ( El Prat International Airport )
- Boston , USA ( Logan International Airport )
- New York City , USA ( John F. Kennedy International Airport )
- Baltimore / Washington, DC , USA ( Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport )
- Orlando , USA ( Orlando Sanford International Airport )
- Minneapolis-St. Paul , USA ( Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport )
- San Francisco , USA ( San Francisco International Airport )
The airline is expanding into charter services with a new company that reuses the old name Loftleiðir. Loftleiðir Icelandic is now operating 6
Boeing 757-200 s and 3
Boeing 767-300 s. The company has 15
Boeing 737-800 s on order. These aircraft will be leased to other companies.
The Icelandair all-
Boeing fleet consists of the following aircraft (at December
2005 ):
On
28 February 2005 Icelandair signed a contract for two
Boeing 787 s 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.
- Initially ''Icelandair'' relied on Douglas DC-8 aircraft for their international routes. During the 1990s they acquired new Boeing 757 s. In 1997 the airline established a subsidiary, Air Iceland , to operate domestic and some short-haul routes.
- Today ''Icelandair'' is Iceland's biggest carrier and the only one on most routes but 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 offers stopover packages in Iceland on its transatlantic flights at no extra cost.
