17 Mar 2016Icelandic airline WOW air has applied to the municipality of Kópavogur to build apartment hotels at Kársnes by the seafront close to the planned WOW headquarters.
17 Mar 2016The route will be operated all year round, initially with the airline’s Boeing 757 aircraft, then with higher-capacity wide-body Boeing 767 aircraft during the summer.
10 Mar 2016An Icelandair jet was escorted to its arrival gate at Brussels airport today by a fleet of fire engines – after a landing gear malfunction forced a high-speed landing.
7 Mar 201634% of all flights leaving KEF last month were bound for the United Kingdom, with traffic up some 20% as compared to the same month last year.
2 Mar 2016Today saw the introduction into service of Air Iceland’s first new Bombardier Q400 aircraft, with a 35-minute flight from Reykjavik to the northern town of Akureyri.
29 Feb 2016The airline already has Airbus aircraft names TF-MOM, TF-DAD, TF-SIS, TF-BRO, TF-SON and TF-KID, and now – upon the suggestion of one of the airline’s pilots – TF-GAY, writes Gay Iceland’s Ingibjörg Rósa.
18 Feb 2016Icelandic low-cost airline WOW air has turned around considerable losses in 2014 to post profits of ISK 1.1 billion (approx. €7.7 million) last year.
16 Feb 2016Until now, passengers could connect to the on-board wifi once their aircraft had climbed through 10,000 ft. The network would be switched off before landing.
15 Feb 2016Love was quite literally in the air on a flight from Paris to Iceland yesterday as one of the passengers used the aircraft’s PA system to propose to his girlfriend.
9 Feb 2016Falling fuel prices, rising demand on North American routes, and more hotel bookings have all contributed to a rise is profits for Icelandair Group of some 67%.
9 Feb 2016Last month saw double the amount of flights from Keflavík International Airport (KEF) than in January 2013, with the winter months now enjoying as much traffic as traditionally associated with peak season.
7 Feb 2016WOW air, the Iceland-based airline, has purchased two new Airbus A321-211 airplanes. The two new planes are a part of the airline's expansion in the North-American market that is set to commence in May.
