First Chinese Airline Launches Iceland Flights - 787

First Chinese Airline Launches Iceland Flights

Ben Schlappig — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:19:29 +0000

Chinese airlines have been growing like crazy in the past few years, and have been adding all kinds of routes. In many ways it's surprising that no Chinese airline has flown to Iceland yet, though there have been rumors for a while of that changing... and now it's official. Juneyao Airlines has announced that they'll…

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Chris Hannonen — Fri, 29 Nov 2019 05:02:57 +0000

^ Amazing that you manage to offend not only the Chinese but the Finns as well with your racism by calling our capital city a "Chinese trash can." As a Finn, I would much rather a somehow step into my personal space to take a photo than perpetuate these dangerous views. It is absolutely fascinating that so many Europeans are so transparently and unapologetically racist as they bemoan the "impoliteness" and "noisiness" of people from other countries. The lack of self-awareness is astounding. If your local or national government is too broken and corrupt to impose regulations for the purchase of property by foreigners or renting by airBNB as many other cities and countries have successfully done, perhaps the Hungarian people ought to take responsibility to fix that problem yourselves rather than scapegoating one of the largest drivers of your economy. The simple fact is, your government earns too much in tax revenue and GDP growth to care about "the regular Magyar." Who's fault is that?

Mattej — Fri, 29 Nov 2019 03:03:30 +0000

We see this same problem with Chinese in Budapest. They have bought up most of the best districts and Airbnb kills life for the regular Magyar. As someone who was in HEL monthly I loved the peace and quiet and now it’s become another noisy Chinese trash can. When I see HU on the edge of bankruptcy and CX stock at a 1 year low ... makes one think. I’m also avoiding places with too many Chinese tourists.

Chris Hannonen — Thu, 28 Nov 2019 23:44:00 +0000

"Misanthropic" is quite an interesting way of saying "I'm not racist, but..." I don't think I've heard that one before. Neat. As has been rightly noted, to suggest that two weekly flights from China on a 787 tip is what is going to tip Iceland over the edge into chaos is nonsense. Reykjavik and southwestern Iceland has been an absolute mess over the last decade and we can thank our fellow European and North American friends for that. Yes, there are etiquette issues with Chinese tourists given the vast cultural differences and day-to-day way of living in China versus many other parts of the world (particularly Western). Rules that require Chinese travellers to join organised tours does indeed lead to the tour-bus-clumping phenomenon. While we're stereotyping, Americans scream-talk everything they say, everywhere they go. If we're to assess by their tourists, one could reasonably assume that Brits and Australians are always drunk, all the time.

Daniel from Finland — Thu, 28 Nov 2019 09:45:03 +0000

@Mike, the current HEL-CPH-HEL 5th freedom flight has everyone deplane at HEL in both directions. Coming from China, pax continuing to CPH go through security at HEL. In the other direction, no security. Passport control is at CPH both ways. Pax who start their journey in HEL and only fly to CPH will need to go through passport control at HEL and CPH despite intra-Schengen.

Oz Eagle — Thu, 28 Nov 2019 08:57:54 +0000

@ Sir Fly a lot I'm amazed a tissue was used as my experience is that all who are in close vicinity tend to wear the spray.

Mark — Thu, 28 Nov 2019 06:43:59 +0000

@Natasha Juneyao opened daily service to HEL last summer already, flying now in winter 3x weekly. There's also Sichuan Airliens flying CTU-HEL-CPH 3x weekly and Tibet Airliens have an once a week summer service TNA-HEL.

EthFlyer — Thu, 28 Nov 2019 05:33:30 +0000

Chinese tourists everywhere, Americans in Europe, Americans and Australians in SE Asia, and Arabs in Indonesia. Tons of trash tourists out there.

yourcommiedaddy — Thu, 28 Nov 2019 03:13:15 +0000

@Charles Unfortunately your list will get even shorter, I suggest you visit Mars for leisure soon before the Chinese builds infrastructure on it.

A Random Chinese Guy — Thu, 28 Nov 2019 02:37:43 +0000

I'm amused by the sinophobia even in a travel blog. Ya know it's kind of difficult for Chinese tourists to destroy anything nowadays given most "popular" places have already been destroyed by the American saints ... That aside, if 2 flights per week (translating to probably 400 more visitors, also assuming otherwise they are too stupid to find other ways to fly to Iceland) will destroy your holy Iceland experience, so be it. Grow up, guys.