Icelandair Launching Pittsburgh Flights In 2024

I always wonder how much $$ was spewed to make this happen. Living 15 mins from Pitt, I may need to help support the financial incentive, haha!

Great for Pittsburgh, just wish they could support service without endless subsidies that don't really end up providing a net value to the area.

“This will only be the airport’s second transatlantic route, and it’ll be the first time that WOW Air operates this service, though WOW Air operated a similar flight in the past.”

I think you made a typo, unless you have a time machine?

Pittsburgh is in Pennsylvania? So there's two cities in one state? How is that even possible?

What do you mean ?

Hope it can coexist with BA, who cut PIT down to 3x/Wk, and is already its weakest (by loads) route to the USA, despite no longer being the newest.

I think it's a reference to a scene from "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia"

Random, but since this is about PIT figured I'd drop it here. I flew into PIT yesterday and noticed a Flybe plane on the ground! Couldn't find more about it in the few minutes I had while taxiing, but thought it was interesting!

You would never guess by our news stories, which tout the BA frequency and overall service as amazing and such a big factor for our economy, ha ..

Not sure it should be much of an issue. PIT-LHR is only 3x/wk for December-February and returns to 6x/wk from April-October. The route is doing much better than when it launched in 2019. PIT to Europe has growing demand in summer as evidenced by the seasonal capacity increase on PIT-YYZ + PIT-YUL which mainly serve as Europe feeders.

If anything I feel LHR would last over KEF as Icelandic tourism was already decreasing pre-pandemic meaning likely less O&D traffic than when WOW flow the route.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zytRIDBAUV0

Odd choice of destination - the market for people going to KEF from PIT is next to nothing. Raleigh or Phoenix or another second-tier city may have been a wiser choice.

They already fly to Raleigh. Also, ass discussed in the article, this flight also connects to several European destinations. It’s not just Iceland.

Pittsburgh?
WOW, how is this suppose to work.

Once Iceland Air gets the LRs in 2025, they should be able to easily operate flights using the LRs to the Caribbean and other warm weather destinations in North America for Europeans looking to get some sun. Perhaps, on the EU side of that equation they can target secondary European cities that don't have much direct service to North America much in the same way they are now targeting PIT which only has one airline flying to Europe.

What are you talking about, dink? RDU is a seasonal flight until October? It's November now, no?

I wonder why they chose this city to fly in the US. Perhaps some insight to this may have been interesting. From a connectivity standpoint it does not seem like a good choice but then again they do not really have many partners and do not belong to a major alliance.

Can you please give Pittsburgh its "h" where you report the flight times?

It’s not about connectivity in Pittsburgh. It’s about people from Pittsburgh going to Europe- connecting over Iceland to get to over 20 cities in Europe.

It’s a region with approximately 2M people that generates several hundred passengers a day to European points in the summer. That’s how

You ask why they didn’t choose Raleigh. They now fly to Raleigh seasonally and have announced that Raleigh is going year round next. Why do you call me dink? You must be a troll

Obviously what I implied is that FI should immediately launch year-round service to RDU as opposed to launching a new route from PIT.

I referred to you as 'dink', because your statement made no sense.

Pittsburgh has such a wonderful airport design for managing flights. Too bad it no longer serves as a regional hub. I'm glad they are getting a little more service.

It's a pun on how WOW couldn't make it work.
That's how.

Flybe, their Dash 8 in PIT?

I'd guess WestJet, Jazz or Porter could be picking up those.

It's the amount of subsidy PIT was handing out.

It's possible every non Canada international flights are subsidized. Maybe expect the PIT-CDG which I don't think DL ever resume that route.

They even paid a crazy amount to fly PIT-PVG for a very few flights.

My statement made plenty of sense and you’re a mean-spirited troll

PIT was design as a pre 9/11 hub, and I have to say quite a well design and ahead of it's time too. Operationally should be better than CLT or PHL.

Can't even be bothered communicating to you any further. Dink.