Airlines flying to Iceland

There is an explosive growth in the Icelandic tourism sector. There are now more airlines flying to and from Iceland than anytime before. A decade ago there were only two airlines servicing Iceland, maybe three during the summer. Now there are no less than eighteen airlines.

Three Icelandic airlines:

• Icelandair 
• Air Iceland 
• Iceland Express 
• WOWair 

12 European airlines:

• Air Berlin
• Atlantic Airways
• Austrian Airlines
• Finnair
• Germanwings
• KLM
• Lufthansa
• Niki
• Norwegian
• SAS
• Transavia France
• easyJet

And two North-American airlines:

• Delta Air Lines
• Air Greenland (I list them as N-American although they are Danish). 

This list is only going to grow. I met some people from Delta last year when they had their inaugural flight to JFK. Of all the US carriers, Delta is the one that breaks into new markets, with other US airlines following suit.  Delta has great connection options in JFK from cities across the US.  Icelandair services several North-American airports such as JFK, Seattle, Denver, DC, Boston, Minneapolis, Orlando and Toronto and has great interline agreements with airline partners such as JetBlue and Alaskan.

Icelandair actually specializes in connecting Europe and North-America. Their route network is optimized for connecting their European and American flights. And since they connect via Iceland, they offer more destination options between the two continents than most other airlines of similar size (e.g. Denver-Paris, Seattle-Stavanger, Washington-Stockholm, Toronto-Barcelona, etc.)