PLAY, the low-cost Icelandic airline, has added four new destinations to its 2022 Summer schedule, with flights from Italy’s Bologna, Germany’s Stuttgart, Prague in the Czech Republic and Portugal’s Lisbon.
Flights to Lisbon and Prague will begin in May 2022, followed by Bologna and Stuttgart in June 2022, taking the total number of European routes to 21.
PLAY’s load factor in July was 41.7%, August 46.4%, September 52.1% and an impressive 67.7% in October.
Birgir Jónsson CEO of PLAY states: “These four new destinations will strengthen PLAY´s route schedule and open up Iceland as an ideal adventure for more Europeans in 2022. We are confident that these destinations will boost PLAY´s operations and that our flights between Iceland and these cities will be popular among those living there.”
PLAY continued to grow in Q3, with 63 new employees including, 41 cabin crew members, 12 flight crew members, and 10 office employees. In the coming months, PLAY states that North America will be a primary focus, as preparations continue for the hub-and-spoke operations.
The Icelandic airline, which launched in June 2021, currently operates a fleet of three Airbus A321neo aircraft connecting passengers to sixteen locations across Europe. Next spring, PLAY will have added new aircraft to its fleet before launching services to North America.