Iceland Express

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Iceland Express

IATA HW	ICAO FHE	Callsign FlyHello
Founded		2002
Hubs		Keflavík International Airport
Focus cities		Akureyri Airport
Fleet size		2
Destinations		4
Parent company		Fons Eignarhaldsfélag
Headquarters		Reykjavík, Iceland
Key people		Matthías Imsland, Managing Director Pálmi Haraldsson, Chairman of the board
Website: http://www.icelandexpress.com

Iceland Express is a low-fare airline based at Keflavík International Airport near Reykjavík, Iceland.

1 History
2 Services
3 Fleet
4 External links
5 References

[edit] History

The airline was established in 2002 and began operations on February 27, 2003 with daily flights to London and Copenhagen using Boeing 737-300 aircraft wet leased from Astraeus. This contract was taken over by JetX Airlines and then by Hello which now operates all services on behalf of Iceland Express. The airline is owned by Icelandic investment group, Fons Eignarhaldsfelag.

Fons Eignarhaldsfelag has agreed to acquire a majority 51% stake in Astraeus, reportedly for £5m. The move would help the Icelandic group support their Iceland Express subsidiary to begin low-fare transatlantic services. The two airlines would continue to operate as separate entities and it is understood that Astraeus could supply Iceland Express with Boeing 757-200 aircraft to start flights from Iceland to New York and Boston in spring 2007 ^[1].

[edit] Services

Iceland Express operates the following scheduled services (at October 2006)^{[citation needed]}:

Reykjavík to Copenhagen
Reykjavík to London, England (Stansted)
Reykjavík to Hahn, Germany
Reykjavík to Friedrichshafen, Germany
Reykjavík to Alicante, Spain
Reykjavík to Berlin, Germany (Schönefeld)
Akureyri to Copenhagen, the first service to not operate out of Keflavík.

From the summer of 2007, Iceland Express will also fly to following cities:

Reykjavík to Billund, Denmark
Reykjavík to Oslo, Norway
Reykjavík to Bergen, Norway
Reykjavík to Paris, France (Orly)
Reykjavík to Stockholm, Sweden
Reykjavík to Gothenburg, Sweden
Reykjavík to Basel, Switzerland
Reykjavík to Eindhoven, Netherlands
Egilsstaðir to Copenhagen

[edit] Fleet

The Iceland Express fleet consists of two 150-168 seat McDonnell Douglas MD-90 (at January 2007) operated by Swiss charter company, Hello AG. Because Hello operate these aircraft under wet-lease for Iceland Express they use Hello's IATA and ICAO codes and can be heard using Hello's callsign "Flyhello".^[2]

Fleet list (as of January 2007) ^[3]: