Tickets with Icelandair are mostly worth buying directly from the carrier's website icelandair.com.

However, even with the high competition, it is always worth comparing prices and flight times via search engines such as skyscanner.com.

Icelandair may not be part of any multinational alliance, but they work with many airlines around the world, so you can also buy a combined ticket with Icelandair and transfer to another carrier.

Icelandair has code-share partnerships with Alaska Airlines, JetBlue, Emirates, Finnair, Turkish Airlines, TAP Air Portugal and others.

When to buy tickets

Icelandair often offers great deals between Europe and the US/Canada, where they are often the cheapest option available at all.

As competition increases, promotional offers for flights between Europe and Iceland only are also becoming more common.

For the best price, it is usually worth buying tickets around 3-7 months before departure.

Fare classes

Icelandair will offer regular economy class and business class, which is referred to as Saga Premium.

The different classes are further divided into different fare groups, which differ for example in the number of bags, the possibility of changing the ticket or the number of frequent flyer miles credited per flight.

Icelandair destinations

Icelandair operates all its flights from Iceland's capital Reykjavík, using both airports there:

• Keflavík KEF - the main hub from where it operates all international routes
  • Austria - Salzburg SZG
  • Belgium - Brussels BRU
  • Canada - Halifax YHZ, Toronto YYZ, Vancouver YVR
  • Czech Republic - Prague PRG
  • Denmark - Billund BLL, Copenhagen CPH
  • Faroe Islands - Vágar FAE
  • Finland - Helsinki HEL
  • France - Nice NCE, Paris CDG
  • Germany - Berlin BER, Frankfurt FRA, Hamburg HAM, Munich MUC
  • Greenland - Ilulissat JAV, Kulusuk KUS, Narsarsuaq UAK, Nuuk GOH
  • Ireland - Dublin DUB
  • Italy - Milan MXP, Rome FCO, Verona VRN
  • Netherlands - Amsterdam AMS
  • Norway - Bergen BGO, Oslo OSL
  • Portugal - Lisbon LIS
  • Spain - Alicante ALC, Barcelona BCN, Las Palmas LPA, Madrid MAD, Malaga AGP, Tenerife TFS
  • Sweden - Gothenburg GOT, Stockholm ARN
  • Switzerland - Geneva GVA, Zurich ZRH
  • Turkey - Istanbul IST
  • United Kingdom - Edinburgh EDI, Glasgow GLA, London Gawick LGW, London Heathrow LHR, Manchester MAN
  • United States of America - Baltimore BWI, Boston BOS, Chicago ORD, Denver DEN, Detroit DTW, Miami MIA, Minneapolis MSP, Nashville BNA, New York JFK, Newark EWR, Orlando MCO, Pittsburgh PIT, Portland PDX, Raleigh RDU, Seattle SEA, Washington IAD
• Reykjavík-Domestic RKV - Domestic routes within Iceland only