New Icelandic airline to launch flights to Denmark, the UK and Spain from summer '22

Published: 18-02-2022 New Icelandic airline to launch flights to Denmark, the UK and Spain from summer '22

Feb 18, 2022 (newstodate): Little has been heard of plans first aired in February 2020 of a new North Icelandic airline venture: Nice Air.
   Nice Air aims at introducing direct international air services connecting Akureyri and European destinations to bring tourists into the northern parts of Iceland - but for obvious reasons the plans were stalled as the Covid-19 struck the world.
   Now, Nice Air is heard of again, announcing plans for launching flight services from this summer between Akureyri, in the northern part of Iceland, and European destinations.
   The Akureyri-based carrier will operate an Airbus A319 aircraft, with bookings to open in early March when the flight schedule comprising destinations in Denmark, the UK and Spain has been announced.
   Behind the project is Thorvaldur Sigurjonsson, CEO of Circle Air, an Icelandic air tours and charter company operating from Reykjavik and Akureyri, offering sightseeing tours.
   European charter flights to Akureyri are, however, no novelty as several carriers have been offering services over the years.
   In 2006, Wizz Air was contracted by Bechtel to operate a weekend flight on the route Akureyri-Katowice during a five-years period. Also serving Bechtel's project was the Icelandic company Trans-Atlantic that chartered a Boeing 737-300 from Lithuanian carrier Aurela to fly between Akureyri and Vilnius, Lithuania, via Copenhagen under a two-year contract from May, 2005.
   In June 2007, Iceland's short-lived lcc Iceland Express launched flights to Copenhagen from Akureyri; the Dutch travel group Voigt Travel offered flights by Transavia between Amsterdam and Akureyri with the first operation on May 27, 2019; Greenland Express planned to start operating between Akureyri and Copenhagen Airport with first flight on June 25, 2014, and until its demise in 2019, the British travel service SuperBreak had been organizing direct flights between the UK and Akureyri from 2017.
   Also Air Greenland introduced direct flights between Akureyri and Copenhagen with the first flight on April 28, 2003, pulling out again, however, after only seven months of operations

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