3 Best Airlines that Fly to Iceland

Icelandair is a major Icelandic airlines company that offers around 53 permanent and seasonal routes to and from North America, Greenland, and Northern Europe. It’s headquartered at Keflavik International Airport, Iceland’s main air gateway. Iceland’s convenient geographical location allows the national airline to perform non-stop transatlantic flights, which are part of the company’s strategy. Besides flights to and from North America and Northern Europe, the airline offers domestic flights as well.

Some of Icelandair’s direct routes to and from Iceland:

• New York - Reykjavik 
  
  
• Boston - Reykjavik 
  
  
• Chicago - Reykjavik 
  
  
• Washington, D.C. - Reykjavik 
  
  
• London - Reykjavik 
  
  
• Copenhagen - Reykjavik 
  
  
• Helsinki - Reykjavik 
  
  
• Oslo - Reykjavik 
  
  
• Stockholm - Reykjavik 
  
  
• Bergen - Reykjavik 

Play is a recently established low-cost airline that operates flights between Iceland and some major European cities. Play offers flights to and from 12 destinations. Like Icelandair, Play is an Iceland-based airline with headquarters at Keflavik International Airport.

Direct Play’s routes to and from Iceland:

• Alicante - Reykjavik 
  
  
• Amsterdam - Reykjavik 
  
  
• Barcelona - Reykjavik 
  
  
• Berlin - Reykjavik 
  
  
• Copenhagen - Reykjavik 
  
  
• Gran Canaria - Reykjavik 
  
  
• London - Reykjavik 
  
  
• Paris - Reykjavik 
  
  
• Salzburg - Reykjavik 
  
  
• Tenerife - Reykjavik 
  
  
• Warsaw - Reykjavik 

If you’re not from North America or Northern Europe, we have good news for you - Wizz Air operates direct cheap flights to Iceland from (nearly) all the rest of Europe. Wizz Air is a Hungarian ultra-low-cost airline with headquarters in Budapest. It has the largest Hungarian fleet, even though it’s not the country’s flagship carrier. Currently, Wizz Air operates flights to and from 44 countries.

Some of Wizzair’s direct routes to and from Iceland:  

• London - Reykjavik 
  
  
• Warsaw - Reykjavik 
  
  
• Krakow - Reykjavik 
  
  
• Gdansk - Reykjavik 
  
  
• Vienna - Reykjavik 
  
  
• Milan - Reykjavik 
  
  
• Rome - Reykjavik 
  
  
• Naples - Reykjavik 
  
  
• Vilnius - Reykjavik 

• Icelandair has direct flights from New York, Boston, Washington, D.C., Seattle, Denver, Minneapolis, and Orlando.
  
  
• United Airlines flies directly to Iceland from New York and Chicago. 
  
  
• Delta airlines have direct routes to Iceland from New York and Boston. 
  
  

Airlines that have direct flights from the UK to Iceland include: 

• Icelandair - direct flights from Glasgow, Manchester, London. 
  
  
• Wizzair UK - direct flights from London.  
  
  
• Play - direct flights from London. 
  
  
• easyJet - direct flights from London, Manchester, Edinburgh, and Bristol. 
  
  
• Jet2 - direct flights from Birmingham, Manchester, Edinburgh, and Newcastle upon Tyne. 
  
  
• British Airways - direct flights from London.  

Icelandair has direct flights from Dublin. If you want to have more options, you can choose flights with a layover. Airlines like Ryanair, Wizzair, and EasyJet will fly you from Dublin to the Iceland capital with only one short stop, usually in Edinburgh.

All three major airlines, mentioned at the beginning of the article, fly from many European cities to Iceland:

• Icelandair - Helsinki, Stockholm, Oslo, Bergen, Copenhagen, Billund, Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Frankfurt, Milan, Zurich, Geneva, Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, Madrid, Tenerife.
  
  
• Wizzair - direct flights from Warsaw, Gdansk, Krakow, Wroclaw, Rome, Milan, Naples, Vienna, Vilnius.
  
  
• Play - Alicante, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Copenhagen, Gran Canaria, Paris, Salzburg, Tenerife, Warsaw.

Keflavik International Airport, also known as Reykjavik-Keflavik Airport, is the country's biggest airport and the main hub for international flights. It’s located on the north tip of the Reykjanes Peninsula, in the municipality of Sandgerdi.