Icelandair to start link from Aberdeen to Reykjavik next week


Icelandair will start flying from Aberdeen next week, its second departure point from Scotland and sixth from the UK. The carrier’s subsidiary Air


Iceland will fly four times a week year-round to Reykjavik from March 9, operating on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday with a 72-seat Bombardier jet. The service will offer connections


via Reykjavik to 16 destinations in the US and Canada, including New York, Toronto, Orlando and Seattle, plus Chicago from March 16 and Montreal from May 19. Icelandair plans to increase capacity from the UK by 25% this year with daily flights from


Summer services


Ian Taylor ian.taylor@travelweekly.co.uk


TRANSATLANTIC: Icelandair offers links to 16 US and Canadian cities


Manchester this autumn – up from four a week this summer – to add to its double-daily Heathrow service and daily Gatwick flights. The carrier will fly daily from Glasgow this summer and three to four times a week from Birmingham. The airline said its Reykjavik


‘Stopover Buddy’ service for passengers had attracted “hundreds


of requests” in its first three weeks. icelandair.co.uk


The start of summer schedules at the end of March sees an increase in long-haul flight options, with family demand forecast to increase following the abolition of Air Passenger Duty for children under-16 on March 1.


Many new routes have already been announced, including Delta Air Lines from Edinburgh to New York, British Airways’ links to San Jose (California) and San Jose (Costa Rica), and Qatar Airways commencing flights from Birmingham.


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26 travelweekly.co.uk 3 March 2016


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