All Icelandair articles – Page 6
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Icelandair to axe two US destinations
Icelandair is axing its US services to San Francisco and Kansas City next year, as part of a network restructuring.
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Icelandair agrees initial 'fraction' of 737 Max compensation
Icelandair has reached an initial agreement with Boeing partially compensating the airline for earnings lost as a result of the 737 Max grounding.
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Icelandair reports Max grounding's second-quarter impact
Icelandair remained loss-making in the second quarter, as the grounding of the Boeing 737 Max fleet took a $50 million toll on the carrier's operating result.
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Airline BusinessPutting numbers on the legacies of airline leaders
With airline leaders gathering in Seoul for the IATA AGM, we use Cirium’s Fleets Analyzer and schedules data to measure the legacies of the chief executives who have left their roles in the past 12 months. The AGM takes place in South Korea just weeks after the death of long-serving Korean Air chairman and chief executive Cho Yang-ho
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Icelandair considers A321neo and possible all-Airbus fleet
Icelandair Group is considering switching to an all-Airbus fleet, or the introduction of A321neos to succeed the Boeing 757, as part of a long-term strategic review.
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Icelandair Group pulls out of Wow Air discussions
Icelandic carrier Wow Air’s future appears increasingly uncertain after Icelandair Group ended newly-initiated discussions with the budget airline.
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Icelandair takes some of its Max 8s out of service
Icelandair has joined the group of European carriers which are suspending Boeing 737 Max 8 operations.
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PICTURE: Icelandair’s first 737 Max 9 arrives, leased from BOC
Icelandair has taken its first Boeing 737 Max 9, which has been delivered on lease from BOC Aviation.
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Airline BusinessANALYSIS: Which airline CEOs face big challenges in 2019?
A look at the challenges – and opportunities – that await airline chief executives in the year ahead
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NewsPICTURES: 2018's key airline chief executive appointments
A visual record of some of the most significant leadership appointments across the global airline industry in 2018
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Wow Air confident over sourcing crucial funding
Icelandic budget carrier Wow Air admits there are “some reservations” about its ability to operate as a going concern, but its directors believe the company will be successful in securing additional capital.
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Icelandair Group scraps Wow Air takeover
Icelandair Group has abandoned its plan to take over budget carrier Wow Air.
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Icelandair Group to take over budget rival Wow Air
Icelandair Group has agreed to acquire the entire share capital of its budget rival Wow Air.
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Arcing observed before Icelandair 757 windshield incident
Investigators have disclosed that electrical arcing was observed in the cockpit of an Icelandair Boeing 757-200 it diverted to the Canadian air force base at Bagotville with a badly damaged windscreen.
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PICTURE: Icelandair receives first 737 Max
Icelandair has taken delivery of its first Boeing 737 Max, one of 16 of the re-engined family destined for the carrier.
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ROUTES: DFW taking a 'rifle' approach to new routes
Dallas/Fort Worth International airport has adopted a "rifle" approach to attracting a select number of routes, as opposed to the "shotgun" strategy it previously pursued.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Iceland basks in tourism boom
To gauge something of the extraordinary increase in air traffic to Iceland in recent years, you need look no further than the growth in the Icelandair fleet, chief executive Birkir Holm Gudnason suggests.
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ANALYSIS: Belfast hopes for Norwegian long-haul boost
The outlook for Belfast International airport’s long-haul business looked bleak at the start of this year when United Airlines scrapped its Newark service – the Northern Ireland gateway’s only transatlantic route.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Yield woes belie profitable 2016 for Europe's carriers
Europe’s airlines were largely profitable on an operating level in 2016, as low fuel prices and a strong focus on cost-cutting helped them to eke out profits, despite a tough yield environment.
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Icelandair modifies winglets on 757 fleet
Icelandair is fitting a modified blended winglet to its Boeing 757-200 fleet, the first airline in Europe to install the ‘scimitar’ design on the twinjet type.