Icelandair asked its employees to take an unpaid vacation
Icelandair has suggested to all its employees to take an unpaid vacation or to use parental leave for the period up to several months as a reaction to the loss…
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Travel ban to the US affects 27% of Icelandair flights
Icelandair planned 509 flights between the United States and Iceland while announcing a 30-day ban on US President Donald Trump’s entry into force under Isavia’s flight plan. The ban is…
Icelandair expresses uncertainty due to coronavirus
Icelandair press-release Due to measures taken throughout the world to mitigate the possible expansion of the COVID-19 virus, the demand for international travel in certain areas has decreased from what…
WOW air opens office in Italy
The project of relaunch Icelandic low-cost airline WOW air is growing with new offices beyond Iceland. USAerospace Partners, lead by the American ideologist of reincarnation of bankrupted airline Michele Roosevelt…
Mýflug extended fleet with third Beechcraft King Air
Icelandic charter airline Mýflug has received its third Beechcraft King Air, which has arrived in the base airport in Akureyri today as MYA61 from Keflavik. The new aircraft is Beechcraft…
Icelandair has cancelled 22 flights due to hurricane on Valentine’s day, 15 flights were rescheduled
Icelandic national carrier Icelandair has cancelled 22 flights to and from Keflavik (ICAO: BIKF) tomorrow, 14 of February. In addition, 15 flights were rescheduled to later times. Most of the…
Low visibility in Ísafjörður disrupted two flights from Reykjavik
Two planes, performing flights from Reykjavik to Ísafjörður, have diverted to the airport of origin today because of the low visibility in their destination. According to METAR at 1212Z, the…
Samherji, Circle Air and Norlandair are about to start new Akureiry-based airline
The opening of new touristic route Diamond Circle and linked to it hopes of growing tourism in Northern Iceland drove several companies to invest into the launching of a new…
WizzAir cancels flights to Keflavik from Vilnius at summer 2020
Hungarian low-cost airline WizzAir discontinues flying from Vilnius (ICAO: EYVI) to Keflavik (ICAO: BIKF) at summer 2020, reported Turisti.is with a comment of WizzAir information officer. “We constantly re-evaluate our…
Nomination committee suggested to keep three of five Icelandair’s directors
Icelandair Group’s Annual General Meeting will be held next month. Now a special nomination committee has proposed five names on the board, reported Turisti.is. The names of Ómar Benediktsson and…