Air Iceland Connect

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Air Iceland Connect is a small Icelandic regional airline owned by the Icelandair Group. It operates all of Icelandair’s Dash-8 aircraft under its own Air Operator’s Certificate, but tickets are sold under the Icelandair brand since March 2021. Its headquarters are at Reykjavik Airport.

What it is today
- Fleet: a modest fleet of Dash-8 aircraft (including Dash 8-400s).
- Network: about 15 destinations, mostly within Iceland and to Greenland.
- Brand and operations: while flights are marketed as Icelandair, Air Iceland Connect continues to run domestic services under its own certificate.

A brief history
- Beginnings: traces back to Flugfélag Akureyrar, founded on June 3, 1937.
- Mergers and name changes: over the decades, Icelandic airlines merged and rebranded. Flugleiðir (domestically) and Icelandair (internationally) emerged from these changes.
- Air Iceland era: in 1997, Flugfélag Íslands (also known as Air Iceland in English) became the domestic brand, with international flights under Flugleiðir/Icelandair.
- 2017 rebrand: the airline was renamed Air Iceland Connect to reflect Icelandic links and connection to Icelandair.
- 2018 shift: the company narrowed its focus to regional destinations.
- 2021 merger of brands: Air Iceland Connect’s sales were merged with Icelandair; flights continue to operate under the Icelandair umbrella, while Air Iceland Connect maintains its domestic operations with its own certificate.

Past routes of note
- It has served various domestic Icelandic towns and Greenland destinations.
- It previously operated seasonal routes to Aberdeen and Belfast from Keflavík, but these were cut in 2018.

Website
- airicelandconnect.is