This Price range Airline Is Making It Simpler to Get to Turkey — What to Know

Icelandic provider Icelandair will launch new flights from its hub in Reykjavik to Istanbul subsequent 12 months, making it simpler — and cheaper — to connect with the Turkish metropolis from america.

The airline will first launch the flights on Sept. 5, 2025, and plans to function them 4 instances every week, Icelandair shared with Journey + Leisure. The flight time from Reykjavik to Istanbul will take about 5 hours and half-hour.

“In recent times, we’ve got seen elevated curiosity in journey between Asia and Iceland and with these new connections, we’re additional strengthening our gross sales and distribution community,” Bogi Nils Bogason, the president and CEO of Icelandair, stated in an announcement shared with T+L. “We’re excited to proceed reinforcing our route community in addition to connecting to thrilling markets for our clients and tourism in Iceland.”

The brand new flight additionally marks an enlargement of Icelandair’s codeshare partnership with Turkish Airways. One-way flights from Reykjavik to Istanbul begin at $406, in response to a Google Flights search.

Whereas this new route doesn’t journey straight from the U.S., it should make attending to Turkey simpler for American vacationers because of Icelandair’s in depth attain in North America. In whole, the airline operates service to greater than a dozen totally different cities in North America, together with New York, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Detroit, Denver, Portland, and extra.

The airline makes use of a hub-and-spoke mannequin through which all flights join by means of Reykjavik earlier than heading on to different locations and has made a enterprise out of connecting smaller U.S. cities to Europe and past. The airline has argued Iceland’s geographic location typically makes it the only and shortest one-stop connection to Europe, and the comparatively small Keflavík Worldwide Airport (KEF) in Reykjavik permits for shorter layovers. As a bonus, vacationers can reap the benefits of Icelandair’s free stopover program and spend a couple of days within the “land of fireside and ice” alongside the way in which.

To broaden this effort, Icelandair partnered with Southwest Airways to supply worldwide connections to Southwest’s clients beginning subsequent 12 months. Icelandair is Southwest’s first worldwide associate airline.