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Sep 20, 2019 (newstodate): August 2019 saw passenger volumes through Iceland's Keflavik Airport declining.
A total of 840,000 passengers passed through the airport, a drop by 29 percent, y-o-y.
The volume of flight operations also declined by eight percent, y-o-y, to 8,763 movements.
The decline reflects the demise of WOW Air and other operators earlier serving the airport, as well as Icelandair's restructuring of the network and traffic due to the grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX fleet.
On the bright side comes news of the Hungarian LCC Wizz Air to make a fresh effort to keep its route between Lithuania and Iceland in the air on a year-round basis, and the Czech carrier CSA's decision to continue flights to Keflavik also during the coming winter 2019/20 period by extending the route between Prague and Copenhagen to Keflavik on a daily basis from October 28, 2019, with Boeing 737-800 aircraft.
More flimsy are news earlier this month of the US company USAerospace Associates LLC to revive WOW Air.
Initially based on a US AOC, later to be supplemented by an Icelandic AOC, ambitions are to start low-cost flights between Keflavik and Washington already in October 2019, initially with a fleet of two aircraft and planning to grow to six aircraft by summer 2020 - finally landing at some 10-12 aircraft.
A total of 840,000 passengers passed through the airport, a drop by 29 percent, y-o-y.
The volume of flight operations also declined by eight percent, y-o-y, to 8,763 movements.
The decline reflects the demise of WOW Air and other operators earlier serving the airport, as well as Icelandair's restructuring of the network and traffic due to the grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX fleet.
On the bright side comes news of the Hungarian LCC Wizz Air to make a fresh effort to keep its route between Lithuania and Iceland in the air on a year-round basis, and the Czech carrier CSA's decision to continue flights to Keflavik also during the coming winter 2019/20 period by extending the route between Prague and Copenhagen to Keflavik on a daily basis from October 28, 2019, with Boeing 737-800 aircraft.
More flimsy are news earlier this month of the US company USAerospace Associates LLC to revive WOW Air.
Initially based on a US AOC, later to be supplemented by an Icelandic AOC, ambitions are to start low-cost flights between Keflavik and Washington already in October 2019, initially with a fleet of two aircraft and planning to grow to six aircraft by summer 2020 - finally landing at some 10-12 aircraft.