Icelandair this summer celebrated the 80th anniversary of its first international flight, with passengers travelling on Icelandair’s flight from Reykjavik to Glasgow presented with limited-edition tartan luggage tags and complimentary cake by the airline.
Since the airline’s first aviation milestone, logged on July 11, 1945 with a six-hour flight from Reykjavik, Iceland’s capital, to Largs in Scotland, the airline has grown to be one of the major carriers taking passengers across the Atlantic.
Icelandair serves the UK and Ireland with direct flights to Iceland from five gateways: London Heathrow, London Gatwick, Manchester, Glasgow and Dublin, with easy onward connections to 14 gateways in the USA and Canada including Boston, New York (JFK and Newark), Chicago, Seattle, Denver, Orlando, Washington D.C, Detroit, Minneapolis, Portland (Oregon) and Anchorage.
Miami will be added to the airline’s U.S. route network on October 25, with three flights a week – on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday – with the service running through to March 2026. The flight will be operated on Icelandair’s brand- new Airbus A321LR aircraft and the flying time is eight hours.
When flying transatlantic from the UK with Icelandair, travellers can choose to add a stopover in Iceland at no additional airfare – with the option to stay for a day, or up to a week. The country’s attractions include geothermal bathing and northern lights gazing.
Iceland’s Keflafvik International Airport is around 30 miles from the centre of Reykjavik.
