"Flugfélag Íslands" redirects here. For an earlier airline by that name that is one of the ancestors of Icelandair, see
Icelandair#Flugfélag Íslands.
Air Iceland (Icelandic: Flugfélag Íslands) is a regional airline with its head office on the property of Reykjavík Airport in Reykjavík, Iceland.[1] It operates scheduled services to domestic destinations and to Greenland. Its main bases are Reykjavík Airport and Akureyri Airport[2]. It is a subsidiary of Icelandair Group.
[edit] History
The airline was originally formed in Akureyri by Tryggvi Helgason as Nordurflug, and was incorporated under the title Flugfelag Nordurlands on 1 May 1975. A further reorganisation and merger of Icelandair Domestic and Norlandair (Flugfélag Nordurlands) resulted in the present name in 1997. It is wholly owned by Icelandair Group and has 226 employees (at March 2007)[2].
[edit] Destinations
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Iceland
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Greenland
*Flights operated by Norlandair
Air Iceland Dash 8-100 at Ilulissat Airport
As of June 2011, the Air Iceland fleet consists of the following aircraft with an average age of 19.1 years:[3]
[edit] Accidents and incidents
- On 4 March 2011, as Dash 8 TF-JMB was landing at the Nuuk Airport it got hit by a flaw and the right wheel broke off causing the aircraft to slide off the runway. All 31 people on board were unharmed.[4]
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