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Another Day, Another New Icelandair Route: Today, It's San Francisco

Emily McNutt
Emily McNutt
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Jan. 11, 2018
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Another Day, Another New Icelandair Route: Today, It's San Francisco
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For the third time this week, Icelandair announced a new US destination — this time, it's San Francisco (SFO). The Reykjavik-based carrier will launch nonstop service between Iceland's capital of Reykjavik (KEF) and SFO beginning June 1, 2018.

The SFO-KEF route will offer 4x weekly service, operated by one of Icelandair's Boeing 767-300ER aircraft. Here's the operational schedule for the route:

  • FI862 San Francisco (SFO) 3:15pm Departure ⇒ Reykjavik (KEF) 6:35am (+1) Arrival — Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays
  • FI863 Reykjavik (KEF) 5:00pm Departure ⇒ San Francisco (SFO) 6:55pm Arrival — Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Sundays

Icelandair's 767-300ER features three cabins: Saga (business class with recliner seats), economy comfort and economy. Check out Brendan Dorsey's review of the Icelandair experience in economy on the aircraft.

Saga on the 767-300ER.

Seats are available on the inaugural flight from KEF to SFO for $293 one-way. Round-trip flights seem to hover around the $500 mark. While the flights aren't yet loaded on Google Flights, you can search directly on Icelandair's website.

This announcement of service to SFO is the latest Icelandair expansion in the US. On Tuesday, the carrier announced it was set to begin offering nonstop service between Kansas City (MCI) and KEF. The route will serve as the first-ever nonstop transatlantic flight from MCI. On Wednesday, the carrier also announced new service between Baltimore (BWI) and KEF.

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San Francisco already has nonstop service to Iceland via low-cost carrier WOW Air. Travelers can expect to pay slightly more for the Icelandair service, however, it's a full-service carrier as opposed to WOW.

With the addition of San Francisco (SFO) to its route network, Icelandair now services the following 18 US airports: Anchorage (ANC), Baltimore (BWI), Boston (BOS), Chicago (ORD), Cleveland (CLE), Dallas (DFW), Denver (DEN), Kansas City (MCI), Minneapolis (MSP), New York (EWR and JFK), Orlando (MCO), Philadelphia (PHL), Portland (PDX), San Francisco (SFO), Seattle (SEA), Tampa Bay (TPA) and Washington, DC (IAD).