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What Is Iceland Express Doing In US/Caribbean?

RobK From United Kingdom, joined Sep 2004, 3932 posts, RR: 19
Posted (6 years 5 months 2 weeks 4 days 13 hours ago) and read 2813 times:

Greetings all,

Just listening to the Caribbean HF network and heard JXX143A submitting a position report. According to sources JXX = Iceland Express, so what's he doing over there and where is he going to/coming from?!

Anyone have any info?

R

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Flyboy_se From Switzerland, joined Feb 2000, 745 posts, RR: 6
Reply 1, posted (6 years 5 months 2 weeks 4 days 13 hours ago) and read 2794 times:

Iceland Express is FHE.
I think an icelandic airline called Jet X or something similar operates under JXX.I think they mostly fly charter.could be wrong tho.
As they often lease their planes with crew it shouldent be a surprise to see them far away from home

Let´s fly away

RobK From United Kingdom, joined Sep 2004, 3932 posts, RR: 19
Reply 2, posted (6 years 5 months 2 weeks 4 days 13 hours ago) and read 2780 times:

Quoting Flyboy_se (Reply 1):
Iceland Express is FHE.
I think an icelandic airline called Jet X or something similar operates under JXX.I think they mostly fly charter.could be wrong tho.
As they often lease their planes with crew it shouldent be a surprise to see them far away from home

Are you sure about this? According to ICAO doc 8585, FHE belongs to Hello AG of Switzerland. JXX is listed against Iceland Express, former name Jet X.

R

RJ100 From Russia, joined Nov 2000, 4107 posts, RR: 33
Reply 3, posted (6 years 5 months 2 weeks 4 days 13 hours ago) and read 2764 times:

Swiss based HELLO operates all flights on behalf of Iceland Express. The company, which operates 6 MD-90s therefore has stationed three aircraft in Keflavik.

Regards,
RJ100

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Debonair From Germany, joined Jan 2004, 2096 posts, RR: 4
Reply 4, posted (6 years 5 months 2 weeks 4 days 11 hours ago) and read 2708 times:

Quoting RobK (Thread starter):
Anyone have any info?

well it is this one:

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Well there is a BIG problem... ICELAND EXPRESS is not an airline-without any AOC! It is leasing a/c from different companies! Last Year Iceland Express leased 2 MD80 from JetX- so the flights numbers were JXX000! Many sources in the internet still saying JXX=Iceland Express! Wrong!

Now Iceland Express is leasing MD90 of HELLO Swiss! So the flight-code changed to FHE...

This winter travel-agency "heimsferdir"- also without any AOC, also not an airline, leased a B737 of AUSTRIA/LAUDA- operated by JetX, on lease from AUSTRIA/LAUDA! Thats the reason why JXX-code. heimsferdir is e.g. flying from Keflavík to Varadero... Thats the reason why JXX-code in the caribbean... Clear? Complicated! Big grin

BTW: how can I tune in Caribbean HF network?

RobK From United Kingdom, joined Sep 2004, 3932 posts, RR: 19
Reply 5, posted (6 years 5 months 2 weeks 4 days 9 hours ago) and read 2626 times:

Thanks for the informative reply Debonair! Another source has confirmed it was OE-LNK too, a 737-800!

Re the HF feed, you can listen online via the receivers on the dxtuners.com site although you have to share with other listeners who may wish to listen to something else not aviation related.

R

Dutchjet From Netherlands, joined Oct 2000, 7864 posts, RR: 58
Reply 6, posted (6 years 5 months 2 weeks 4 days 9 hours ago) and read 2599 times:

Quoting Debonair (Reply 4):
Clear? Complicated!

Thanks for the very good explanation of a very complicated situation....

Plane Holland From Netherlands, joined Oct 2000, 431 posts, RR: 0
Reply 7, posted (6 years 5 months 2 weeks 4 days 8 hours ago) and read 2563 times:

Quoting Dutchjet (Reply 6):
Thanks for the very good explanation of a very complicated situation....

over 6000 posts and 6 years on this board and you call this complicated.. Sad

Dutchjet From Netherlands, joined Oct 2000, 7864 posts, RR: 58
Reply 8, posted (6 years 5 months 2 weeks 4 days 8 hours ago) and read 2542 times:

Quoting Plane Holland (Reply 7):

over 6000 posts and 6 years on this board and you call this complicated..

Yes.......I guess that I am not as clever as you are.

The poster did an excellent job explaining why a Lauda aircraft, with unusual titles, is operating the flights discussed.

Debonair From Germany, joined Jan 2004, 2096 posts, RR: 4
Reply 9, posted (6 years 5 months 2 weeks 4 days 5 hours ago) and read 2446 times:

Quoting Plane Holland (Reply 7):
over 6000 posts and 6 years on this board and you call this complicated..

How about this one... Flew this year from Stockholm to Helsinki on SWEDISH FlyMe. Pilot was a French guy ex ALEXANDAIR GREECE, Co-Pilot was an Italian of (lsd. fr.) NordicLeisure opb. by NordicAirways, A/C was an ex AUSTRIAN AIRLINES MD-80 with ERITREAN AIRLINES titels and sub-chartered from mapJET of AUSTRIA, cabin crew consisted of one ex Niki, one ex AeroFlight and two ex AeroLloyd Austria attendants!

Hopefully this is not too complicated for you... duck

Plane Holland From Netherlands, joined Oct 2000, 431 posts, RR: 0
Reply 10, posted (6 years 5 months 2 weeks 3 days 19 hours ago) and read 2355 times:

It's funny these situations , I like seeing planes in a total different environment. We have Transavia and their planes are all over the world sometimes when they normally should be only in Europe.

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