Icelandair

Interesting to see that we will have them this year, rather than the previously reported sporadic appearances next Feb/Mar/Apr.
 
Adds to the TATL competition... and perhaps demonstrates they are picking up market share.
 
Today was the first day of Icelandair B767 operations. There will be another one later this week and then semi-regular operations from February.

Manchester joins quite an elite club for the Icelandair B767, as with only 3-4 in the fleet, it's normally used in the busy trunk routes like Heathrow, New York, Paris, Copenhagen and Boston.
 
737-8 MAX TF-ICE was operating today's flight. Is this the first visit of an Icelandair MAX to Manchester?
 
Just checking out MAN arrivals (on the MAN website) I noticed that we have FI444 arriving tomorrow at 8.20pm. Seems to be an extra sector and it's not the 1st one they've done as FI444 also came in on 29th May - on both occasions the "normal" FI440wasn't (isn't) operating. Not showing on the MAN arrivals page on FR24 but if you search for the flight, you see it's history.
 
Airlineroute has reported that the DHC8s will be on MAN services 2 weekly from 15th July to 14th September and will also be using leased A319s in July and August
 
As B737-MAX8 deliveries fall further and further behind a number of carriers are finding they haven't got the fleet strength they were planning around. Icelandair is one of those companies affected. We will likely continue to see afew interesting substitutions until the MAX issue is resolved.
 
Courtesy of Airlineroutes 7th September:

Reykjavik Keflavik – Manchester Current schedule listing displays no operation in S21, from 01MAY21
 
Airlineroutes, dated 23rd October, is now showing the following for S21peak weeks (July and August):

Reykjavik Keflavik – Manchester 3 weekly 737 MAX 8/9
 

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i must be a lunatic. Friday 25th Sept will see me doing a daytrip that involves me leaving my flat in Manchester at 1am and not getting back home until after midnight. All because I'm doing a Loch Ness and Scottish Highlands trip.... out of Glasgow
For some weird reason, my days off work tend to involve being out of my flat by 5am and not getting back until 10pm. Back to work and the regular "fix" of 7.40am to 7.15pm hours
Heatwave Mk2 next week?
Some explosive weather build-ups currently in the North of England. What is it like where you are?
LBA: B737-300 G-GDFK empty down to Paris at 16:15 to operate the return LS268 back to Leeds 20:00 ETA where it will then operate the delayed LS265 to Malaga 20:40ETD

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