Iceland’s two largest airlines — Icelandair and WOW Air — just can’t stop growing. They’ve been adding so many new flights to the US, using Iceland as a gateway between North America and mainland Europe.
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Where is IcelandAir finding all the spare plane capacity to add all these routes suddenly? It's not like they're crushing it on plane efficiency either, with the current on-ground times for the US-Iceland routes
Great to have Icelandair back at BWI. They served the route up through most of 2007. They even once had a $61 mistake fare that was honored for BWI-KEF (2004)..
Lucky: the map you’ve shown has MCI (Kansas City) in it from the previous Icelandair post. It does not have the BWI location.
@ Daniel @ Hutch -- Thanks, fixed! Sorry about that. Was dealing with slow plane wifi and it didn't upload correctly, it looks like.
Jim I flew BWI-KEF and back twice when they offered that route. Then they moved it to IAD. Now it looks like they'll be serving both airports. I believe the only 2 other foreign airlines that serve both are BA and Air Canada.
Did Icelandair get a kickback from the MD government for this route? I know the BWI-LHR route operates with a revenue guarantee from Maryland.
With so many new cities, like DFW, CLE, MCI, BWI, cabotage should be allowed so that one can fly through KEF. For example, SEA-KEF-BWI or PDX-KEF-MCI.
@Derek @CabinChief it would be great if it were allowed, but it won't be. Same reason why you cannot fly on a single ticket from JFK to SEA via YVR.
@CabinChief, wouldn't the nonstop Southwest flight be more convenient than connecting in Iceland?
For decades flyers from the Washington area used Icelandair (Icelandic) from BWI to get cheap tickets to Europe. It wasn't that long ago they switched to IAD.
Not only odd that both Icelandair and WOW will fly from BWI but that Icelandair will keep both BWI and IAD airports (though British also flies from both.
The Icelanders are serious ! (Tho I find WOW's fares are way cheaper).
I flew Icelandair economy just recently. Was seriously impressed! For a semi-low cost airline, service was better than anything you'd get on any of the American Airlines for half the price. The layover at Reykjavik was really easy and only added about 1.5 hours to total flying time.
Why would they do this? Other than Chicago and detroilet, is there a more disgusting city in the US than Baltimore?