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Sep 26, 2019 (newstodate): First out in 2019 to announce new arrivals at Keflavik was the Dutch low-cost carrier Transavia.
Starting from July 1, 2019, the carrier, member of the Air France/KLM Group, has been offering three weekly rotations on the route between Amsterdam and Keflavik during this summer schedule.
Results seem to have been good enough to secure Transavia's comeback to Iceland again from summer 2020, now with five weekly rotations.
And good news are vital for Keflavik Airport where 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.
Consequently, Isavia expects this year's passenger traffic at Keflavik International Airport to decline by 8.7 percent, y-o-y, to 8.9 million, including a drop by 18.7 percent in the volume of transit passengers due both to the decrease in the number of destinations served and frequencies offered to selected destinations.
Starting from July 1, 2019, the carrier, member of the Air France/KLM Group, has been offering three weekly rotations on the route between Amsterdam and Keflavik during this summer schedule.
Results seem to have been good enough to secure Transavia's comeback to Iceland again from summer 2020, now with five weekly rotations.
And good news are vital for Keflavik Airport where 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.
Consequently, Isavia expects this year's passenger traffic at Keflavik International Airport to decline by 8.7 percent, y-o-y, to 8.9 million, including a drop by 18.7 percent in the volume of transit passengers due both to the decrease in the number of destinations served and frequencies offered to selected destinations.