Icelandair Is Adding Flights To San Francisco As Of June 2018

You keep harking on about BA having an awful business class...how about this? It's not even a flat seat on a flight over 4000 miles long...

BA has its faults but Jesus...I bet you won't fly this lol

Has lucky ever actually reviewed Icelandair? he needs to put his money where his mouth is. Which usually seems to be on swiss behind

That's a long flight in that crappy business class seat! I thought there was talk of them finally updating their business class a while ago. I guess that got dropped.

I am surprised about them returning to SFO. I just don't see how they can make money on this route with the low fares and competition with WOW. Not to mention you have a wide body sit on the ground overnight. I have flown "Saga" class before and it's on par with Virgin America from JFK to LAX at best.

@anon,

Took me 30 seconds to find this on this site:
https://onemileatatime.com/icelandair-business-class-saga-class-review/

Could they turn this plane around for a 9pm-ish departure from SFO and a noon arrival at Keflavik? Is there not an afternoon bank of flights from Keflavik that passengers with onward connections to Europe could use?

Come on Lucky. You are a journalist. Do your research both BWI and SFO aren't new routes for Icelandair. They have previously served both destinations.

I flew Icelandair Business from KEF to SEA and it was a pretty bad experience, small legroom and the seats just aren't comfortable. Most domestic First class has better seats. Can't imagine 8-9hrs flight on this product...

Presumably there is an upside to a 20 hour layover - the same flight and cabin crew can work both legs.

No thanks. Always want to go to Iceland but 8.5 hours in those crammed business class seats... pass...However, from nyc to Iceland is 5.5 hour in those seats which look more tolerable. And talk about those “worst business class seats”in the world on BA.... I guess people would rather crammed in these seats or take a super dated India Air business class seats because apparently they are better than BA business class seats! Go figure...

Icelandair business class seats are like 1980's domestic first class but then their business class fares are less.

@Will Both SFO and BWI are new routes in 2018.

@anon: "Has lucky ever actually reviewed Icelandair? he needs to put his money where his mouth is."

It took exactly one click from this page to see that he reviewed their J product in August of 2014.

Lucky,

SFO is "saturated" but isn't that mostly a matter of landing and takeoff slots rather than gates?

And if so then it would make sense for SFO to grant more slots to international widebody flights and less to, say a regional jet or turbo prop going to Santa Rosa, Fresno or Monterrey?

@ Martin -- That's correct. There's definitely room to park the plane, my point was more that I doubt that SFO will give Icelandair a similar arrangement to what MCI has done, where they're essentially waiving most of the fees and even offering incentives. So there's definitely room for Icelandair, it's just that I think parking a plane there for 20 hours per day will cost them an arm and a leg. I could be wrong.

One other reason it's probably not a good idea to redeem Alaska miles for Icelandair: carrier surcharges *are* imposed on Icelandair award tickets.

One should fly Icelandair only when it's the best means of visiting Iceland itself. For a long time, Icelandair was the only way to get to Iceland. That's no longer true. Icelandair is tolerable on a short flight from IAD or JFK but never enjoyable. Iceland is a phenomenal place to visit. Go. And fly another airline (NOT WOW) if you can.

WOW sees to always have ridiculously low fare sales to Europe while Icelandair is no super-bargain. I just haven't seen where it's fares are unusually low to Europe ever.

Granted they give a free carryon while WOW doesn't and WOW way-overcharges for a bag. But if you can deal with just a small backpack WOW is a steal.

I just don't see the huge expansion if they can't compete with WOW on price.

I can guarantee Lucky will never use WOW lmao...he will hyperventilate just at the thought of rubbing shoulders with so many roughians...

Jack

You can fly to Iceland on other airlines but that involves a change of planes and, in most cases I can think of, going to Europe first.

So you can fly on nicer planes with nicer seats and better service. But you will be more tired and jetlagged when you arrive. The point of premium travel is to arrive more quickly and in a better state, surely?

I will be flying Iceland Air in June to San Francsico. The ticket states that I will be landing at the domestic terminal and not the international. Could this be correct? Last year Air Berlin said it was landing at the domestic terminal too and it ended up beong the international. Just so that my 81 yeR old dad goes to the right terminal. Thank you to anyone who can help confirm this.

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April 19, 2018 at 1:01 pm
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I will be flying Iceland Air in June to San Francsico. The ticket states that I will be landing at the domestic terminal and not the international. Could this be correct? Last year Air Berlin said it was landing at the domestic terminal too and it ended up beong the international. Just so that my 81 yeR old dad goes to the right terminal. Thank you to anyone who can help confirm this.