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Reykjavik Airshow 2018 from the cabin of flying Icelandair DC-3 (reg. TF-NPK) // Source: Flugblogg

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Reykjavik Airshow 2018 from the top: new aircrafts, banned militaries and rain

After 3 months of postponing the airshow finally has happened in Reykjavik. Crouching through nasty forecasts of the coldest Icelandic summer for past 100 years, the event brought most part…

Icelandair Boeing 757 is departing from Reykjavik airport // Source: Karl Georg Karlsson

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Why Icelandair wants to buy two Atlantic airlines-bankrupts (updated 31.July)

Icelandair group, which includes Icelandic national carrier Icelandair, in the middle of the process of purchase a significant shareholding in two airlines, which commercial situation is more than gloomy. Both…

President of Flugmálafélag Íslands in 2018 Matthías Sveinbjörnsson // Source: Matthías Sveinbjörnsson Facebook page

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The president of the National Aeroclub of Iceland about Reykjavik airshow, Icelandic championship and his own path to the sky

The National Aeroclub of Iceland (Icelandic “Flugmálafélag Íslands”) includes 26 aviation organizations of the country, any of which somehow related to flying. The president of the National club is elected…

Departure of Icelandair Boeing 753 TF-ISX from Sheremetyevo, Moscow during World Cup 2018 on 17.06.18 // Source: Sergey Popkov

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How icelanders flew to World Cup and back

Icelandic airlines provided special charters for the national team and fans to the World Cup 2018 in Russia. Most Russian spotters have never seen Icelandic airlines before. They share their…

The plan of reconstruction of main terminal of Keflavik airport // Source: Isavia

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How Isavia record expectations stumbled on “a hole” in the tourism grow path

2018 is going to bring new record for the biggest Icelandic airport with 10 mln passengers at the end of the year. However, this milestone might be postponed by a…

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How RNAV approaches Iceland

Ground navigation equipment is going to disappear from all northern Icelandic non-international airports. That is the government plan, which is supposed to reduce costs of aerodromes with low paxflow. New…

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Icelandair showed to the public its first Boeing 737 MAX

The major Icelandic airline launched the aircraft with journalists around Iceland. Flugblogger was on board to learn about the newest addition to their fleet, reasons for the delay of new…

Rescue man Gísli Valur Arnarson works with hoist of ICG Aérospatiale AS.332 (reg. TF-GNA) // Source: Flugblogg

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Help from above: What Icelandic Coast Guard struggles for

In harsh weather conditions and any time of day or night, they fly via “dark routes” with names of Scandinavian gods on their aircraft to save lives. Their assistance requested…

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Icelandair has got Boeing 757-300 with “combat” past (updated 13.jun)

The most recent addition to Icelandair’s fleet – Boeing 757-3E7 with registration number TF-ISX – had arrived at Keflavik airport 2nd of March. The plane was bought from Israel airline…

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Stormy mess in Keflavik (updated 26.feb)

Strong wind affected ground operations in Keflavik airport on 25th and 26th of February. Landed planes on open stands were unserviceable due to wind gusts, hundreds of passengers and tonns…