Cleveland is an airport that sort of got the short end of the stick when Continental and United merged, as it used to be a Continental hub, and up until 2009 even had nonstop service to London Heathrow. Unfortunately since then the airport hasn't had any transatlantic service, though it looks like that will finally…
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"The flight from Cleveland to Keflavik will cover a distance of 2,792 miles, so it’s about as long as many transcon flights within the US."
As a matter of fact, 2792 miles is longer than every transcon flight within the US,
"A transcontinental flight commonly refers to a non-stop passenger flight between an airport in the West Coast of the United States and an airport in the East Coast of the United States."
So pumped that CLE is getting European service back. I'm hoping it will help to "revive" the airport a bit in the way that PIT made a comeback after losing its hub many years ago.
I'm surprised all you readers aren't commenting on their ancient Business Class seats.
Anchorage is on the West Coast 🙂
Miami is on the East Coast 🙂
Boy this is a fun comment section...
Icelandair is skilled at finding under-served markets and giving their passengers great new flight options. My in-laws usually use Icelandair for their YHZ-AMS trips and don't mind the stop in KEF. It still makes for a much shorter trip than most other available connections, and they find KEF very easy to navigate. Icelandair is also usually the cheapest option.
If they can succeed in a tiny market like YHZ, I'm sure they'll have no problem in CLE. According to wikipedia, greater Cleveland has a population over 2 million. The Halifax area is less than half a million.
I don't think their seats are wide enough to accommodate those huge mid-Western asses.
1] You guys and this debating trans-con flight lengths, I just can't...
2] I would pay more money, make a longer connection and quite frankly backtrack on my route to avoid an International flight on a "guppy"...Boeing can call it anything they want, "Max", "Next Generation" [nextgen], put fancy cowlings on the engines, cute tips on the wings, IT IS STILL A GUPPY...They took the cheap way out and caved to SouthWest and whoever else and didn't completely rework the 737 airframe...It is a 1960's cabin that is cramped, low and uncomfortable...WHO WOULD EVER want to be on one longer then 1.5hrs is beyond me...While I love a Boeing wide body [#team747], when it comes to a narrow body its #airbusallday for me...
"Cleveland is an airport that sort of got the short end of the stick when Continental and United merged, as it used to be a Continental hub, and up until 2009 even had nonstop service to London Heathrow."
Indeed it did. I live in the Cleveland metro area and since United pulled out we lost a whole concourse (which United refuses to give up, so it's sitting there fenced off and unused) which was really beautiful. Lots of natural light and a fun rainbow tunnel to go through. I keep wishing that the new Icelandair flights will change this, but I'm probably not educated enough for this to be a realistic aspiration.
Truly happy that I can get to Europe with only one stop in Iceland now, though. I'm very excited and may be booking a flight soon to try it. Just not sure if I like their Saga product, but the rates seem more than reasonable!