New Belfast flights to Iceland launched

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There's a new flight from Belfast City Airport to Reykjavik with Icelandair.

The new route will start on June the 1st 2017.

It's the carrier's 44th scheduled destination with a full year-round service three times a week, on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays

operated by sister airline Air Iceland.

The flight from Belfast to Reykjavik will provide easy

connections with Icelandair’s wide network of destinations in the US and Canada.  

“Belfast is a vibrant fast growing city with great business and leisure opportunities and we are

happy to be able to offer our customers this exciting addition to our network,” Birkir Holm

Guðnason, Icelandair CEO  told Q Radio news.

Northern Ireland Economy Minister, Simon Hamilton MLA, said:

“I welcome the hard work and commitment of George Best Belfast City Airport to develop

routes like this one which will contribute to our efforts to make global connections as we

create a competitive economy.  This new route to Iceland which will open up connections to

North America, is another important step as we continue to build our air connectivity so that it

is as easy as possible for people all over the world to access Northern Ireland for both

business and tourism purposes.”

 

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