Eaa3 From United States of America, joined Sep 2007, 956 posts, RR: 0 Posted (3 years 7 months 4 weeks 1 day 13 hours ago) and read 11897 times:
Iceland Express will announce later today that it will add New York to it's destinations. It will operate the same model as Icelandair where it will use Iceland as a connection for people traveling across the Atlantic.
Iceland Express is a low cost carrier and as such it will be perhaps the first transatlantic low cost carrier.
Sflaflight From United States of America, joined Nov 2005, 1182 posts, RR: 1 Reply 3, posted (3 years 7 months 4 weeks 1 day 12 hours ago) and read 11743 times:
Quoting Eaa3 (Thread starter):
Iceland Express is a low cost carrier and as such it will be perhaps the first transatlantic low cost carrier.
Nah! That's been done before many times: People Express, Citybird, TowerAir, Laker Airways, Zoom, etc....
Ushermittwoch From Germany, joined Jan 2004, 2888 posts, RR: 18 Reply 4, posted (3 years 7 months 4 weeks 1 day 12 hours ago) and read 11738 times:
They might be a low cost carrier but they are most certainly not a low fare carrier...
Thus, I am not too sure if this whole connecting business will work, unless a TATL-itinerary will be cheaper than the single sectors combined in two.
Eaa3 From United States of America, joined Sep 2007, 956 posts, RR: 0 Reply 5, posted (3 years 7 months 4 weeks 1 day 12 hours ago) and read 11727 times:
Quoting BMED (Reply 2): Will they be brining new equipment to operate these flights or are the B733's able to operate the route?
They will lease a new type that can operate this route, such as the 757.
BA319-131 From United Kingdom, joined Jan 2001, 8264 posts, RR: 56 Reply 6, posted (3 years 7 months 4 weeks 1 day 11 hours ago) and read 11697 times:
Interesting move indeed!
No sure how they plan to sell these unless they offer 1 stop flights from say London etc.
Pricing will have to be very keen, there are some really cheap prices out there at the moment and it's likely to be this way for a while - excluding christmas!
Norlander From Faroe Islands, joined Sep 2007, 128 posts, RR: 0 Reply 9, posted (3 years 7 months 4 weeks 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 11284 times:
Quoting Ushermittwoch (Reply 4): They might be a low cost carrier but they are most certainly not a low fare carrier...
I think that entirely depends upon your point of view. For instance you'll get from CPH to KEF and back on 5W for €338, which in my view is cheap. FL takes €450 for the same trip.
JetSetter629 From United States of America, joined Nov 2007, 410 posts, RR: 0 Reply 10, posted (3 years 7 months 4 weeks 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 11014 times:
This is great news to hear. I wonder if the flights on the JFK-KEF route will be as expensive as FI. Funny how JFK-KEF-ARN is cheaper than JFK-KEF. I'm looking to take some long weekend trips to Reykjavik...who need Vegas when there is Iceland!?!
STT757 From United States of America, joined Mar 2000, 16261 posts, RR: 52 Reply 11, posted (3 years 7 months 4 weeks 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 10939 times:
I just got back from the Venetian in Las Vegas, I highly doubt the skirts get as short in Iceland as they do in Vegas. My mind could not comprehend what I was seeing, shame I'm married.
Eaa3 From United States of America, joined Sep 2007, 956 posts, RR: 0 Reply 12, posted (3 years 7 months 4 weeks 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 10923 times:
Quoting BA319-131 (Reply 6): No sure how they plan to sell these unless they offer 1 stop flights from say London etc.
That's the plan .... and from a bunch of other destinations. They have a lot of small destinations all over Europe that don't have direct service to the U.S.
Quoting Norlander (Reply 9): I think that entirely depends upon your point of view. For instance you'll get from CPH to KEF and back on 5W for €338, which in my view is cheap. FL takes €450 for the same trip.
Yeah. They are not "Ryanair" cheap. Hopefully they will be cheaper than their competition across the Atlantic though.
I wonder if their schedule will match that of Icelandair i.e. the connection times.
PlymSpotter From Spain, joined Jun 2004, 11136 posts, RR: 63 Reply 13, posted (3 years 7 months 4 weeks 1 day 7 hours ago) and read 10642 times:
Quoting STT757 (Reply 11): I just got back from the Venetian in Las Vegas, I highly doubt the skirts get as short in Iceland as they do in Vegas. My mind could not comprehend what I was seeing, shame I'm married.
Might not be as short, but the girls are much much cuter in Iceland. It's the Scandinavian influence
JetSetter629 From United States of America, joined Nov 2007, 410 posts, RR: 0 Reply 15, posted (3 years 7 months 4 weeks 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 9787 times:
Quoting PlymSpotter (Reply 13): Might not be as short, but the girls are much much cuter in Iceland. It's the Scandinavian influence
Oh I agree - what a wild city with a beautiful population
Quoting Mbe0002 (Reply 14): they know that people travelling to iceland do not have many choices
Hopefully they will still bring the price down a bit
Mm, not too sure about that. Rather Polish influence.
As IEx’s owners are the same as Astræus’, they will surely get Astræus’ 757s. I hope they will apply lower fares than Icelandair.
On another note: Yesterday I flew with Icelandair KEF-FRA. It wasn’t at all better than flying with IEx. They charge for headphones and they charge for food and they charge more for the flight (yeah I know IEx don’t fly to FRA but nevertheless) than IEx. Also, IEx’s ham and cheese baguette tops the little variety of sandwiches IceAir have.
So, flying Iceland-Europe, IEx isn’t at all worse. Sometimes one also gets to use ”airstairs”, which means shorter de-boarding times.
YULWinterSkies From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 2109 posts, RR: 6 Reply 17, posted (3 years 7 months 4 weeks 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 9416 times:
Quoting BA319-131 (Reply 6): Pricing will have to be very keen, there are some really cheap prices out there at the moment and it's likely to be this way for a while - excluding christmas!
Yeah, but it is also slow touristic season in Iceland until at least May. Cold, dark and windy it will become for the next few months. Wishing luck to IEx, honestly.
Seasonality of the traffic explains, in part, why airfares to Iceland are generally high (low demand in the winter = high costs to be covered as a 757 is a 757, full or empty, high demand in the summer = easy money!!!). Other part being the lack of competition, but is there really room for two airlines in Iceland? (on the ground at KEF, there is for sure, but to be filled up year round in the air is the question...)
Aero145 From Iceland, joined Jan 2005, 3070 posts, RR: 23 Reply 18, posted (3 years 7 months 4 weeks 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 9134 times:
Quoting YULWinterSkies (Reply 17): but is there really room for two airlines in Iceland?
For the consumer, it is. When there’s only one airline flying to Iceland, it can have its prices set to whatever it wnats, and the consumers would have to pay, if they would want to go to Iceland at all.
KingFriday013 From United States of America, joined May 2007, 1277 posts, RR: 10 Reply 19, posted (3 years 7 months 4 weeks 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 9054 times:
Although they are considered a legacy carrier here in the United States, US Airways is technically a low-cost carrier, so we already have a TATL LCC. I wouldn't think that they're really in competition with Iceland Express, however, since US doesn't make a stop in Iceland. It'll be interesting to see what happens with this.
KingFriday013 From United States of America, joined May 2007, 1277 posts, RR: 10 Reply 21, posted (3 years 7 months 4 weeks 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 8858 times:
Quoting Pe@rson (Reply 20): People always say that. But: yeah, right!
FWIW, US is by far the cheapest and most convenient (flies to LGA) carrier for flying home from college (ROC-NYC). Everyone says how JetBlue is the best, but US is cheaper and has 3 more daily turns than B6 I think.
BigGSFO From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 2755 posts, RR: 7 Reply 22, posted (3 years 7 months 4 weeks 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 8808 times:
Anybody else get the Icelandair banner ad touting Seattle on this thread? Clever.
Normie999 From United Kingdom, joined May 2009, 137 posts, RR: 0 Reply 23, posted (3 years 7 months 4 weeks 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 8544 times:
Possibly in response to this, Icelandair has just announced expansion plans for next year. 10% increase mentioned across the board - link from here - http://insidetraveller.co.uk/blog/?p=387.
The idea of Iceland Express competing with Icelandair to N America has been around for some time (mentioned around 2007 on their Wiki page I believe), so it may be all a bit of wishful thinking, though with Astreus equipment it perhaps has more chance of becoming reaility.
BOStonsox From United States of America, joined Dec 2007, 1887 posts, RR: 0 Reply 24, posted (3 years 7 months 4 weeks 1 day 2 hours ago) and read 7743 times:
FWIW, EI is an LCC too, and their fares are VERY cheap, less than $200ow BOS/JFK-DUB. But back to the topic onhand, I wonder how well this is going to work, as FI relies on connections more than local traffic (Iceland itself has only 320,000 people- a little smaller than Cincinatti and only a little larger than Pittsburgh). New York is the primary TATL destination in the US, so maybe there is a chance of it working, however. Which airport are they going to, JFK or EWR?
25 Viscount724: FI will have to deal with something they're not used to in the U.S.-Iceland market -- competition. I think the last time there were two carriers opera
26 Prebennorholm: Low cost or low fare, we may name them whatever we want. I used to call them an absolutely okay airline. I have used them on many occations ever sinc
27 Kevinasaurus: Was Zoom not considered a low cost carrier?
28 Viscount724: Ryanair's website also says: "Ryanair, as a policy, does not overbook its flights."
29 Aero145: Sorry to quote you again and sorry Eaa3 to go off-topic again, but FWIW, there was a Polish girl who won first runner up to Miss Iceland this year.
30 DC10Widebody: Looking forward to flying Icelandair, it is great to have a lowcost TATL option in Icelandair from SEA, we have all the full service carriers BA, AF,
31 Eaa3: I meant of the conventional European LCC's. BTW. is Air Berlin considered a LCC.
32 Prebennorholm: Thanks Viscount, I didn't know that. But on other issues Iceland Express has a rather different attitude. I have already mentioned baggage and baggag
33 Normie999: Iceland Express has also announced a weekly Gatwick-Akureyri service next summer. The UK Press had several artlicles this weekend about discovering th
36 Aero145: I think it’s meant as going to KEF, see the country, and leave from AEY, or vice-versa. Makes sense to me, and would be more convenient, not having
37 Prebennorholm: Depending on your interests I wouldn't say that. If you are dreaming about spending a vacation in a nightclub on a backpacker's budget, then you are
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