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May 06, 2019 (newstodate): The recent demise of several airlines has dealt a severe blow to traffic volumes and number of destinations at Iceland's Keflavik Airport.
After a prolonged period with sustained increases in passengers and airlines calling at Keflavik Airport, the trend has now turned with the bankruptcies of WOW Air, Primera Air, and Germania, as well as reductions of Icelandair's route network and other events.
With WOW Air's fall, the airport lost the carrier's traffic to Cleveland, Cincinnati, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, St Louis, New York, Pittsburgh, Edinburgh, Alicante, Dusseldorf and London Gatwick, and its plans for flights to Delhi never lifted off.
With Primera Air out, flights to Alicante, Gran Canaria, Palma, Trieste and Tenerife Sur were lost.
Germania's flights to Bremen, Dresden, and Nuremburg were lost as well, and Eurowings' flights to Cologne, Stuttgart and Dusseldorf are now also history.
On top of that, MAX 8 groundings and other reasons have made Icelandair suspend flights to Cleveland, Dallas, and Halifax, and its plans for flights to Dusseldorf were also axed.
So far into 2019, only two new carriers have announced flights to Keflavik - Transavia and Neos, while the Faroese carrier Atlantic Airways has been mulling plans for flights from Vagar Airport via Keflavik to New York from autumn 2019.
After a prolonged period with sustained increases in passengers and airlines calling at Keflavik Airport, the trend has now turned with the bankruptcies of WOW Air, Primera Air, and Germania, as well as reductions of Icelandair's route network and other events.
With WOW Air's fall, the airport lost the carrier's traffic to Cleveland, Cincinnati, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, St Louis, New York, Pittsburgh, Edinburgh, Alicante, Dusseldorf and London Gatwick, and its plans for flights to Delhi never lifted off.
With Primera Air out, flights to Alicante, Gran Canaria, Palma, Trieste and Tenerife Sur were lost.
Germania's flights to Bremen, Dresden, and Nuremburg were lost as well, and Eurowings' flights to Cologne, Stuttgart and Dusseldorf are now also history.
On top of that, MAX 8 groundings and other reasons have made Icelandair suspend flights to Cleveland, Dallas, and Halifax, and its plans for flights to Dusseldorf were also axed.
So far into 2019, only two new carriers have announced flights to Keflavik - Transavia and Neos, while the Faroese carrier Atlantic Airways has been mulling plans for flights from Vagar Airport via Keflavik to New York from autumn 2019.