Icelandair considers future fleet options
Icelandair is conducting a review of its long-term fleet strategy. The carrier has suffered from the grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX—it has 5 MAX 8s and 1 MAX 9 in its fleet, plus an additional 3 -8s and 6 -9s on order—but said the review is unrelated to this. To fill holes in its summer schedule since the MAX grounding in March, the carrier has wet-leased 2 Boeing 767s, temporarily acquired a 757, and also brought in 2 De Havilland Dash 8-400s from domestic sister company Air Iceland Connect. Icelandair is one of the largest users of the Boeing 757 outside the US with more than 20 in its fleet and has used the type on its relatively thin, long routes between Europe and North America, connecting at its Reykjavik hub. The MAX was not only intended to replace some of those aircraft, but also to expand the fleet. <br/>
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Icelandair considers future fleet options
Icelandair is conducting a review of its long-term fleet strategy. The carrier has suffered from the grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX—it has 5 MAX 8s and 1 MAX 9 in its fleet, plus an additional 3 -8s and 6 -9s on order—but said the review is unrelated to this. To fill holes in its summer schedule since the MAX grounding in March, the carrier has wet-leased 2 Boeing 767s, temporarily acquired a 757, and also brought in 2 De Havilland Dash 8-400s from domestic sister company Air Iceland Connect. Icelandair is one of the largest users of the Boeing 757 outside the US with more than 20 in its fleet and has used the type on its relatively thin, long routes between Europe and North America, connecting at its Reykjavik hub. The MAX was not only intended to replace some of those aircraft, but also to expand the fleet. <br/>
