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Icelandair is currently the major carrier to Keflavík International Airport, T 505 0372. All prices given below are without tax. Iceland Express is a new budget airline flying to Reykjavik from Copenhagen and London Stansted airports, T (345) 550 0650, http://www.icelandexpress.is There are daily flights in the morning from Copenhagen, starting at ISK 14,660, and in the afternoon from Stansted, starting at ISK 14,160 (just over £100). Seasonal fluctations in price are expected although this is their first year of operation and nothing is fixed as yet. From UK and Ireland Icelandair flies from Glasgow and London Heathrow airports. From Heathrow there are two flights daily (three hours, £335-500). Weekend-only flights cost from £280 to £300. Slight discounts on flights are available for students, and anyone under 26, from STA Travel (http://www.sta.com). From Glasgow there is one flight daily (two hours 10 minutes, £270). Weekend-only flights £213-238. Look out for low-season discounts (from £99 plus tax during November-March) when booking on the internet. Icelandair also flies to the USA via Iceland with a maximum three-day stopover (see below). From North America Icelandair flies to/from Europe via Iceland with a maximum three-day stopover on a regular basis as well as direct to Iceland. There are six flights a week to/from Boston (five hours, $770 peak season, $623 off-peak, $369 week- end only), five to/from Baltimore-Washington Airport (six hours 20 minutes, $770 peak season, $623 off-peak, $369 weekend only), four to/from Minneapolis-St Paul Airport (six hours, $829 peak season, $710 off-peak, $369 weekend only) and two to/from Orlando, Florida (seven hours 10 minutes, $710, not operating in the summer). There are flights from New York, but they are currently suspended November-April 2003 due to reduced traffic at this time. From Europe Icelandair flies directly to Keflavík from Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Milan, Oslo, Paris and Stockholm. There are six flights weekly from Amsterdam during peak season (three hours, E503 peak season, E393 off-peak), one flight weekly from Barcelona (four hours 15 minutes, E590), one flight weekly from Berlin (three hours 20 minutes, E340), up to three flights daily from Copenhagen (three hours 10 minutes, DKK 3835 peak season, DKK 2800 off- peak, DKK 3465 weekend-only), one flight daily from Frankfurt (three hours 35 minutes, E340), one flight weekly from Milan (four hours 15 minutes, E614), one flight daily from Oslo (two hours 40 minutes, NOK 4295 peak, NOK 3875 weekend-only), four to eight flights weekly from Paris, (three hours 25 minutes, E461 peak, E370 off-peak, E350 weekend-only), one flight daily from Stockholm (three hours 10 minutes, SEK 4515 peak, SEK 3400 off-peak, SEK 4095 weekend-only). After 26 October the frequency of these flights drops until the beginning of June. Airport information Keflavík International Airport, T 425 0600, http://www.airport.is, has only one terminal and shares a runway with a NATO base. In the arrivals hall you'll find a telephone, 24-hour bank and cash point, money exchange, tourist information centre and various car hire firms. There is a café on the second floor and a taxi rank outside arrivals. A taxi to central Reykjavík costs around ISK 7200. The reliable Flybus meets incoming flights and drops you at your hotel, guesthouse or hostel. They also go from the city to Keflavík airport five times a day, picking up at major hotels and guesthouses two hours before outgoing flights. It costs ISK 1000 one-way. There’s a duty-free shop selling alcohol at reasonable prices for people flying in as well as out of the country, and as Iceland isn’t part of the EU, duty-free hasn’t been abolished here. For late-evening arrivals there isn't much beyond the odd car rental place open, but there is a benefit in arriving late as you'll arrive at Reykjavík at about the time that the place starts getting ready to party. Domestic air terminals: Reykjavík Airport, T 570 8090; Akureyri Airport, T 460 7000; Heimaey Airport, T 481 3255.
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