Icelandair is celebrating its 70th anniversary and is offering a hundred dollar discount off four packages to Iceland. Icelandair began in 1937 as a domestic carrier. In 1945, Icelandair initiated its first flights outside of Iceland to Scotland. By 1948, they served Scotland, Copenhagen, and Oslo.
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On August 26, 1948, the airline made its first flight to Idlewild Airport in New York…now JFK.
Icelandair now operates from Boston, New York-JFK, Baltimore/Washington, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Orlando Sanford and Halifax (opening May ’07). In addition to Reykjavik, Icelandair services destinations in Scandinavia (Copenhagen, Helsinki, Gothenburg, Stockholm, Oslo, Bergen); Great Britain (London, Manchester, Glasgow); and Continental Europe (Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Frankfurt, Madrid, Milan, Munich, Paris) through the airline’s hub in Iceland. Some destinations are seasonal.
