Ultra low cost carrier PLAY inaugurated flights between Reykjavik and Split in late May, becoming the first Icelandic airline ever to serve a destination in the former Yugoslavia on a scheduled basis. The seasonal flights, which run weekly, were originally to be maintained until August 13, but have been extended until October 29. “We are pleased with how our Split services have been received. The majority of our passengers on the Split route are Icelandic. However, we are hopeful that, over time, the local population in the Split area will discover our services and take advantage of the opportunity to catch low cost flights to Iceland and our North American destinations”, PLAY told EX-YU Aviation News.
Despite being a low cost carrier, PLAY offers transfer flights with inbound services from Europe connecting onto the airline’s North America network, which currently counts five destinations, including Boston, New York Stewart, Baltimore, Washington Dulles, and Hamilton Airport in Canada, which serves Toronto. “We are also seeing passengers from North America taking advantage of our stopover option. With this option, passengers can book up to a ten-day stay in Iceland at no additional cost before continuing their travel to Europe. A portion of our North American passengers are choosing Split as their final destination”, PLAY said.
PLAY will be spreading its wings this coming winter by launching a limited service between Reykjavik and Zagreb. The flights will cater for fans heading to the 2025 World Men's Handball Championship, which will be held in Croatia, Denmark, and Norway from January 14 until February 2, 2025. PLAY will operate flights from the Icelandic capital to Zagreb on January 16, 21 and 27 with tickets available for purchase through the airline’s website. “We are always exploring further options and new destinations. However, as a publicly listed company, we cannot disclose our business plans before reporting them to the market. That said, we have already announced flights to Zagreb starting in January 2024, coinciding with the games that our national handball team will play in the World Cup. So, get ready to see a lot of Icelanders in the Croatian capital next January”, PLAY concluded.
Wow! Very nice!
ReplyDeleteWho would have thought Split would be the first city in the region with flights to Reykjavik.
ReplyDeleteEveryone wants to visit beautiful Dalmatia!
DeleteAnonymous 10:19, there's a whole world waiting for Dalmatians to discover it.
DeleteI would think that Dalmatians have already discovered Dalmatian.
DeleteIt's good and for croatian tourists, Iceland is popular for croats and slovenians. Seasonal scheduled flights are possible, the market is here. LJU also have potential, Trade Air operates this route on charter base.
ReplyDeleteThis year maybe will be Klas Jet, Trade Air no capacity for two based planes in Slovenia, some greek routes this summer are with Lithuania s Klas Jet. Trade Air business now is wet leases...
DeleteOne weekly to ljubljana in dummer would work. Iceland is super popular in slovenia. We sll gly from venice
DeleteIt would work. But Fraport could not be bothered to attract Play or Icelandair.
DeleteWould work but it won’t happen becouse this is Ljubljana airport and Slovenian aviation
DeleteKeflavik is already served by Edelweiss, which is part of the LH Cartel, so LJU will continue to be restricted to charters
DeleteCongrats! Happy the flights are working out.
ReplyDeleteIf they actually scheduled the Split flights to connect to/from US/Canada they would be able to add second weekly flight.
ReplyDeleteTrue, the stop is too long. Something like 10 hours.
DeleteFrom April 25 there are twice weekly flights on sale
DeleteNext year?
DeleteYes april 2025
DeleteNice. Great that tickets are already on sale.
DeleteAthens route is very popular, greek tourists, American tourists, SPU will be like ATH 100%.
ReplyDeleteLooks like the next route will be Zagreb.
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DeleteI would prefer if Icelandair started Zagreb
DeleteWhy?
DeleteBecause it is a better airline
Deletelol
DeleteAnyone flown with them?
ReplyDeleteThey are typical LCC.
DeleteAn LCC, but definitely more comfortable than Ryanair, easyjet or Wizz, mostly cause they're a bit lower density (their A320 only has 29 rows)
DeleteFlew with them from ATH pretty good LCC airline.
DeleteGood to hear
DeleteBravo Hrvatska!
ReplyDeleteHow far is New York Stewart from Manhattan?
ReplyDeleteA bit over 100km
DeleteVery convenient 😃
DeleteAround 80km, the problem is the lack of rail connections, though, since you need to bus to Beacon Station, which can take half an hour
DeleteEven 80k is way too far unless the price of the ticket is 50% or less than flying with the full service airlines via frankfurt, Amsterdam or London.
DeleteIt's like 300 bucks for a return ticket between Stewart and Reykjavik, which is pretty decent, considering Icelandair costs 500 and United 550
DeleteBut how much does it cost to get from Stewart to downtown New York?
DeleteWOW 2.0
ReplyDeleteExactly my thought
DeleteHope it has a better fate than Wow.
DeleteI hope they start BEG. A good way to connect to Toronto and other North American destinations as they are about half-way between the two.
ReplyDeleteWould be nice but there is no P2P demand from either end and I don't think they would be able to sustain the route simply on transfers.
DeleteNot gonna happen unfortunately.
DeleteVery nice- good connections to the USA :)
ReplyDeleteVery unexpected, yet extremely welcome. Would be nice to see seasonal flights to LJU or ZAG
ReplyDeleteCongratulations Croatia! This is absolutely remarkable!
ReplyDeleteWhat are the KEF-SPU fares like?
ReplyDeleteCheck their website
DeleteNow that's a striking livery.
ReplyDeleteThey already increased SPU to 2 weekly from next year
ReplyDeleteCool!
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