About Icelandair

Operations

Our Fleet
Icelandair operates a fleet of Boeing 757 jets on its scheduled routes. The planes’ seats and entertainment systems will be renewed in 2008. Icelandair’s entire fleet is fitted with comprehensive safety equipment, in many cases exceeding the general requirements of international flight regulations. The planes also meet the strictest international environmental requirements, regarding both noise limits and the emission of harmful substances.

Icelandair and its forerunners, Flugleidir, Flugfélag Íslands and Loftleidir, have been involved in flight operations since 1937, and established international routes in 1945. The fleet included turbojets from 1957 and jets from 1967. Between 1989 and 1992 the company replaced all of its planes, introducing new Boeing 737-400 and 757-200 jets and Fokker 50 turboprop airliners.

Today, Icelandair uses Boeing 757-200 and Boeing 757-300 jets for scheduled flights, and the company also oversees flights for other companies within Icelandair Group. Most of the fleet is assigned to providing conventional scheduled flights between Iceland and other countries, although some planes are leased to a number of domestic and foreign charter projects.

Safety
Icelandair traces its airline roots to the year 1937, and has been operating international flights since 1945. We have used turboprop aircraft since 1957 and jet aircraft since 1967. As a result, we have accumulated a long and valuable experience in both domestic and international air transportation.
We have been a member of IATA (International Air Transport Association) since 1950, of AEA (Association of European Airlines) since 1957, and FSF (Flight Safety Foundation) since 1968. All of these international organisations are actively engaged in furthering air safety.

Icelandair as an airline is subject to the operations supervision of the Icelandic Civil Aviation Administration. The Republic of Iceland has been a member of ICAO International Civil Aviation Organization) since 1947, ECAC (European Civil Aviation Conference) since 1955 and JAA (Joint Aviation Authorities) since 1990. The appropriate rules and regulations on air safety matters, issued by these international Government organizations, are applied in Iceland, which, as a member State of the EEA (European Economic Area), applies in principle the same aviation regulations as the EU (European Union).

The Icelandair fleet is equipped with the latest and most advanced communications and navigation equipment, as well as a full range of required safety systems including ACAS (Airborne Collision Avoidance System) and enhanced TAWS (Terrain Avoidance Warning System).

As part of our on-going policy of providing the best customer services possible, we continue to invest in new aircraft, equipment and facilities as well as in continued training of operations and technical personnel to ensure the highest level of air safety.

All Icelandair pilots have received extensive basic and advanced flight training both in Iceland and abroad, and are rigorously tested every six months in flight simulator facilities in Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Our cabin attendants also receive comprehensive initial and recurrent training regarding their safety functions on-board, as well as their service tasks.

The central flight dispatch office, located in the Leifur Eiríksson International Terminal at Keflavík Airport, is responsible for flight planning and also maintains a constant flight watch over all of the company's flights.

Aircraft are maintained by Icelandair Technical Services at the maintenance facility at Keflavík Airport, Iceland, in full accordance with the procedures prescribed by the manufacturers and as authorized by the Icelandic CAA. The maintenance facility has been approved in accordance with the so-called JAR-145 rules for maintenance organizations.