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Calling Michele Ballarin a "businesswoman" is being charitable ... serial huckster would be more accurate. Her interference with Somali pirates a decade ago was just so bizarre and damaging.
More workers, shareholders, investors, and travelers waiting to be fleeced by another idiotic enterprise.
For now, PLAY flights to/from the UK would be well-timed given it's one of the few 'green' countries UK people can travel to without quarantine on return.
Honestly, assuming they are planning on becoming a serious airline, wouldn't it make more sense for them to build up a decent route network in Europe first and then expand outside Europe to places like the US? Or do they really need the US market to theoretically survive?
This airline has already failed. In its 'livery'. Anyone fancy a ride in a plane dripping in blood?! Terrible.
There's one good thing about PLAY, compared to other ultra-low-cost-carriers. They not only got a A321neo previously flying for Interjet, but apparently also left the interior as it is. That's a nice 34 inches of legroom for every passenger.
@John- was thinking the same thing. That deep red against bright white clouds in the second rendering is AWFUL.
Alicante and Tenerife are interesting locations to have at launch. Nearly a million people live on Tenerife (similar in population to Oahu, and nearly 3x bigger in population compared to Iceland), so maybe there is a decent amount of local demand for Iceland? Though Icelandair already has seasonal flights to TFS. At least Alicante is not currently served by Icelandair, but was a destination WOW flew to.
If they are thinking of people flying from the US and connecting at KEF to go to Europe, neither of those locations are popular (or know at all) to most Americans.
We met a ton of Danes in Tenerife last year and a lot of them flew in on the now defunct WOW.
A quick check shows that it can take up to 20 hours (via connecting flights) to get to TFS from Copenhagen.
A 3 hour (and change) flight from CPH to KEF , then a 5 hour flight from KEF to TFS may be a good option for Danes
So they still are not connecting US to EU yet?
I'm sure Europeans are not going to transit at KEF.
I'm sure Iceland doesn't have enough O&D demand to fill all these routes.
Might be wise for them to wait for DOT approval before flying?
@Stephen Morrissey
Norwegian had/has seasonal direct routes to 7 Nordic cities from TFS.
5H35M from CPH direct. 7-8 H with LH connecting in FRA or MUC.
And WOW stopped operating in March 2019, their last summer season was 2018.
Last year, yeah right