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Feb 19, 2019 (newstodate): After years of frenetic growth in passenger volumes, Iceland's Keflavik Airport will see a sustained drop in the coming summer season, according to Isavia.
The change reflects the dramatic reduction in WOW Air's operations, while Icelandair will grow its capacity to fill part of the decline.
Measured in passenger seats, Icelandair will thus grow its seat capacity by 14 percent, while WOW Air will retract by 44 percent, compared to last summer.
Icelandair will thus increase from some 3.5 million seats to about four million seas, while WOW Air will drop from 2.7 million to 1.5 million seats in summer 2019.
easyJet plans to reduce its supply by 11 percent, British Airways by 23 and Norwegian by 14 percent, while Wizz Air plans to grow by 15, SAS by 22 and Finnair by 10 percent, y-o-y.
Together, these developments will reduce the passenger through-put at Keflavik Airport by 10 percent in summer 2019, reflecting the drop in North Atlantic traffic by 29 percent and in the UK traffic by 22 percent.
For 2018, Isavia expected 10.4 million passengers through the Icelandic airports, an increase by 18 percent, y-o-y.
The year actually ended with 10.6 mio passengers, an increase by 10.6 percent, y-o-y.
The change reflects the dramatic reduction in WOW Air's operations, while Icelandair will grow its capacity to fill part of the decline.
Measured in passenger seats, Icelandair will thus grow its seat capacity by 14 percent, while WOW Air will retract by 44 percent, compared to last summer.
Icelandair will thus increase from some 3.5 million seats to about four million seas, while WOW Air will drop from 2.7 million to 1.5 million seats in summer 2019.
easyJet plans to reduce its supply by 11 percent, British Airways by 23 and Norwegian by 14 percent, while Wizz Air plans to grow by 15, SAS by 22 and Finnair by 10 percent, y-o-y.
Together, these developments will reduce the passenger through-put at Keflavik Airport by 10 percent in summer 2019, reflecting the drop in North Atlantic traffic by 29 percent and in the UK traffic by 22 percent.
For 2018, Isavia expected 10.4 million passengers through the Icelandic airports, an increase by 18 percent, y-o-y.
The year actually ended with 10.6 mio passengers, an increase by 10.6 percent, y-o-y.