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Free Business Idea: Start A Budget Airline
Fourth time’s the charm Before we reached the delirious heights which The Reykjavík Grapevine now enjoys, with our marble staircases, third wives, fifth husbands and endless champagne lunches, we were like you: young, poor, beautiful, ready to vanquish the world with Art.…
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Accusations Of Foul Play As Airline Goes Bust: Up To 20,000 Travellers Left Stranded
At around 10:00 on the morning of Monday, September 29, PLAY, the low-fare airline that had operated out of Iceland since June 24, 2021, announced that it was bankrupt. The announcement went on to say that “it is clear that thousands of…
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Play Plans To Begin Operations In Malta Within 10 Weeks
Work is underway to transfer eight of Play’s aircraft to its Maltese subsidiary, Fly Play Europe, with operations expected to resume no later than 10 weeks from now, reports Vísir. The move comes after the airline declared bankruptcy earlier this week, leaving passengers…
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Play Airlines Cease Operations
Airline company Play has ceased its operations. On September 28, the company issued its declaration of closure at the Icelandic stock exchange. “The board of Fly Play has decided to cease all operations, with all company flights being cancelled,” the statement begins. “The…
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Icelandic Airline Considers Leaving Iceland
Einar Örn Ólafsson, CEO of Play, does not rule out the airline delisting from the stock exchange and ceasing operations in Iceland altogether should market conditions become too difficult, reports RÚV. Last week, Play issued a profit warning. The company is expected…
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Play Aircraft Damaged In Hailstorm, Returned To Airstrip
A Play aircraft was turned back for landing shortly after takeoff from Poland yesterday, after the plane got caught in a hailstorm that caused significant damage, reports RÚV. According to Play’s spokesperson Birgir Olgeirsson, the aircraft landed without significant problems. The aircraft…
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Play Airline Shares Nosedive On The Stock Market
News of the Play airline’s poor performance has resulted in a steep descent in its stock price. On July 23, Play stock declined by 17% in one day following the board of directors’ decision to annul its existing performance predictions. Icelandair annulled…
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Theatre Postpones Shows As Actors Are Deported
The Reykjavík City Theatre has postponed performances of the play ‘Snake’ because the actors from the show were deported, reports RÚV. [su_pullquote]It’s only one week until Iceland Airwaves returns to Reykjavík! Get prepared by pre-ordering our Airwaves Goodie Bag! It contains everything…
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PLAY Flight Makes Emergency Landing In Canada
A flight of the Icelandic airline PLAY heading to Baltimore, Maryland in the US made an emergency landing in Canada due to an unruly passenger on board, reports RÚV. [su_pullquote]Sign up to our newsletter to be the first to know if a…
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PLAY Launches Its First Flight To The USA
Iceland’s low-cost airline PLAY launched its first transatlantic flight to the USA, Vísir reports. The flight to Baltimore/Washington International will be operated on a daily basis starting from April 20. [su_pullquote]Are you going to Iceland in the near future? Check out all…
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PLAY Airline Announces 150 Job Openings
Newcomer low-cost airline, PLAY, has announced 150 new job openings for the spring and summer next year, MBL reports. Of the newly listed positions, the airline is seeking to recruit 50 pilots and 100 flight attendants on both a long-term and summer…
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Icelandair Still Boards Icelanders Without Test Certificates
As negative COVID test results are now also required for vaccinated travelers upon entry, Icelandair announced yesterday that it will still board Icelandic citizens who do not provide negative test certificates. However, the same does not go for foreign nationals. In contrast,…
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RVK Newscast #116: Play On The Stock Market & The Metal CEO
A brand new Icelandic airline, Play, began operations last month and has just launched itself on the stock market. The value of the company immediately skyrocketed, and its future looks bright. We joined Play last week as they took to the skies…
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First Airplane Of Play Has Arrived And Coincides With Controversy
The airline Play received its first plane at Keflavík Airport Monday afternoon, with the first flight is scheduled for next week, according to RÚV. However, the airline has faced controversy in recent weeks. The Icelandic Confederation of Labour (ASÍ), the umbrella organization…
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New Drama With Play
Yesterday, the Icelandic Confederation of Labour (ASÍ), the umbrella organisation of Iceland’s labour unions, urged Icelanders to boycott the new low-cost airline Play. ASÍ stated in an announcement that Play should not be supported due to low wages for employees. The same…
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New Airline Play Hopes To Step In If Icelandair’s Struggle Continues
Anonymous investors are preparing to invest in Iceland’s newest airline, Play, as Icelandair struggles to avoid bankruptcy, but an airline industry official has warned that Icelandair may prove irreplaceable. Skuli Skúlason, chairman of the board at Play, told Mannlíf that several Icelandic…
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Airline Recap: A Game Of Business
In March, WOW Air ceased operations after a long, tedious and public financial struggle. The question of how the tourism industry would handle the closure lingered in the air, with many expecting the industry to take a heavy blow. However, while the…
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Play Reduces Their Stake To Attract Investors
The recently announced low-cost airline, Play, was reported to have some issues finding private investors back in November. Today, with the same tone, Fréttablaðið reports that, as an incentive for investment, Play is proposing a 70% stake instead for equity contribution for…
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Hesitation Surrounds Investment In Play
The newly announced low-cost airline, Play, is reportedly having a hard time getting Icelandic money into their company. Early this March, Iceland’s only budget airline, “ WOW air”, announced bankruptcy, leaving hundreds without jobs and the Keflavík airport full of stranded tourists.…
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What Exactly Is Going On With Airlines In Iceland?
A new budget airline was formally announced earlier this week. Called simply “Play”, it hopes to fill the gap left behind by the collapse of WOW Air last March, with plans to fly to Europe and North America as early as next…
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Introducing Iceland’s New Budget Airline: Play
Over seven months after the demise of Iceland’s only budget airline, WOW Air, a new budget airline has been introduced, Kjarninn reports. Called Play, the airline is comprised in part of former WOW Air board members, and no exact date has yet…
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Theatre Of The Absurd: Guð Blessi Ísland
In the wake of the October 2008 financial crash, the Special Investigation Commission (SIC) was tasked with trying to assess why exactly it had happened. The report they would end up releasing in April 2010 was a massive, multi-volume analysis that assigned…
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The Brits Are Coming! Again!
The British Occupation that started in 1940 has certainly been dealt with a lot in Icelandic culture, as we at the Grapevine have previously discussed. Just this year, one of Iceland’s most popular crime fiction writers, Arnaldur Indriðason, set his latest novel…