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Icelandair Cargo is a sister airline to Icelandair; it is Icelandair Group's cargo airline subsidiary. Flugfélag Íslands and Loftleiðir used their aircraft to carry freight as well as passengers, and when Icelandair was established in 1973 a freight division was set up within the airline.
Loftleiðir (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈlɔftˈleiːðɪr̥], lit. ' Airways '), internationally known as Icelandic Airlines (abbreviated IAL) or Loftleiðir Icelandic, [1] was a private Icelandic airline headquartered on the grounds of Reykjavík Airport in Reykjavík, [2] which operated mostly trans-atlantic flights linking Europe and America, pioneering the low-cost flight business ...
Icelandair Group hf. is an Icelandic travel industry corporation, the owner and holding company of the airline Icelandair and several other travel industry companies in Iceland. The group's headquarters are at Reykjavík Airport in Reykjavík. [3] The corporation is the largest in Iceland, with 125 billion ISK in revenue in 2013. [4]
The first domestically operated airline operating scheduled flights within Iceland, also called Flugfélag Íslands, was founded in 1928. It flew regular flights from Reykjavík to different cities along the Icelandic coast, carrying 500 passengers and travelling 26,000 km in its first summer of operation, using a four-seater Junkers F 13 hired ...
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Airline Image IATA ICAO Callsign Commenced operations Ceased operations Notes A: Air Arctic: 2012: 2014: Operated Cessna Golden Eagle [3] Air Arctic Iceland: ARCTIC AIR: 1985: 1986: Air Iceland Flugfélag Íslands: NY: FXI: FAXI: 1997: 2017: Merged into Air Iceland Connect: Air Iceland Connect: NY: FXI: 2017: 2021: To Icelandair. Operated ...
Alfreð Elíasson (1920–1988) was an Icelandic businessman who founded and served as president of Loftleidir. [1]Loftleiðir Icelandic Airlines was formed in 1944 with a single engine, three passenger plane of Stinson Reliant make, Loftleiðir grew to become one of the major carriers of the North Atlantic in the 1960s and early 1970s pioneering low-cost air travel over the Atlantic.
Air Iceland Connect can trace its history to 1937. On 3 June that year Flugfélag Akureyrar was established; the airline changed its name to Flugfélag Íslands on 13 March 1940, the third airline to bear this name.