Getting to Keflavik with AA / oneworld
Mar 20, 2015, 9:42 pm
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Getting to Keflavik with AA / oneworld
Is there any way to get to KEF (BIKF, Iceland) on the AA/OW network? I'm either really stupid and missing something or there's honestly no way to get there. If so...argh...
Mar 20, 2015, 9:56 pm
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Using the Innosked oneworld interactive map and timetable shows flights Reykjavic/ KEF on airberlin from from Germany and NIKI from Austria.
Mar 20, 2015, 10:07 pm
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It looks to be pretty limited service though - for example, AB does Sundays only from 4/27 - 10/18, with some Tue flights in late July-August from TXL and AB/Niki does routes from VIE, DUS, MUC etc if I'm reading their online schedules correctly (e.g., some may be direct and not nonstop flights). Be a bit flexible in your days of the week and you'll likely find something so long as it's during the April - October timeframe.
Mar 21, 2015, 8:47 am
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Mar 21, 2015, 9:10 am
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I used award tickets to London and then took cheap flights from LHR (and back to LTN I think) to get to Iceland. Admittedly, we had things we wanted to do in London, but it still worked out nicely.
Mar 21, 2015, 10:45 am
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We've booked AA to LHR, overnighted with a departure to KEF less than 24 hours out (and vice versa), so no Air Passenger Duty. We had to provide ticket numbers, etc. so we'd not get charged APD, but it worked.
Sep 13, 2015, 2:11 pm
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British Airways will be resuming service from LHR to KEF on October 25, 2015. It will run W, F, and Su.
BA 800 LHR-KEF departs 11:20, arrives 14:35
BA 801 KEF-LHR departs 15:30, arrives 18:35
Getting back to the U.S. on the return requires an overnight layover in London, but you may find that preferable to flying AB's service to mainland Europe in the middle of the night.
BA 800 LHR-KEF departs 11:20, arrives 14:35
BA 801 KEF-LHR departs 15:30, arrives 18:35
Getting back to the U.S. on the return requires an overnight layover in London, but you may find that preferable to flying AB's service to mainland Europe in the middle of the night.
Sep 13, 2015, 2:27 pm
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British Airways will be resuming service from LHR to KEF on October 25, 2015. It will run W, F, and Su.
BA 800 LHR-KEF departs 11:20, arrives 14:35
BA 801 KEF-LHR departs 15:30, arrives 18:35
Getting back to the U.S. on the return requires an overnight layover in London, but you may find that preferable to flying AB's service to mainland Europe in the middle of the night.
BA 800 LHR-KEF departs 11:20, arrives 14:35
BA 801 KEF-LHR departs 15:30, arrives 18:35
Getting back to the U.S. on the return requires an overnight layover in London, but you may find that preferable to flying AB's service to mainland Europe in the middle of the night.
Sep 13, 2015, 8:22 pm
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These may be just under the legal minimum connect time at LHR (BA>BA, international to international connections are 90 min MCT). If BA considers it domestic (which I doubt) to international, then it's 75 minutes. Tight if so but possible to the JFK flight as Heathrow is less of a madhouse at that hour. However it's not a legal connection if BA considers it intl>intl.
