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Alaska and Icelandair to Codeshare

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Dan Webb
on May 6, 2010
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When Icelandair announced Seattle service a little over a year ago, the airline said it would be working “in cooperation with Alaska Airlines,” but we haven’t heard a thing since. But that’s now changed with Alaska and sister airline Horizon asking the DOT for authorization to codeshare with Icelandair starting on June 1, according to a regulatory filing.

So, how will this work? Well, passengers will fly on Icelandair’s Seattle route (which now has a fifth frequency), and then connect on Alaska/Horizon. The initial destinations are San Francisco, San Jose, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Portland, San Diego, Las Vegas, Spokane, Anchorage, Vancouver, Calgary, and Victoria. Icelandair mentioned Edmonton and Kelowna in its press release last year, but apparently those aren’t happening (yet). Anyway, a good way for Icelandair to expand its reach in the United States. Back in the mid-90s Icelandair had a partnership with Southwest out of Baltimore, though it was short-lived.

Icelandair Announces Seattle

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Dan Webb
on March 26, 2009
in Alaska and Icelandair
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Yesterday, Icelandair announced that it will be launching flights to Seattle in Jully, with four flights a week. For me, the route sounded longer than it actually is. According the Great Circle Mapper, the flight is only a bit longer than a New York-London flight. Interestingly, as pointed out on FlyerTalk, the flight arrives in SEA at 5:45, and doesn’t leave again until 4:30, so the airline will have a 757 sitting for almost a day.

I did find one part of the press relese a bit awkwardly-worded, though:

Flights on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays will connect with Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm and London, offering up to 4 hours faster connection times from Seattle to Scandinavia than possible through other European hubs.

Er, what city doesn’t belong? :D

The release also mentions:

Additionally, Icelandair will work in cooperation with Alaska Airlines to provide passengers convenient connections to a host of cities across the West Coast, including San Francisco, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Anchorage and San Jose.

There aren’t that many details about the partnership, though. It doesn’t seem that one can book a ticket all the way to other West Coast cities on Icelandair’s website, but, maybe in the future one will be able to check his or her bags all the way through. Hopefully more details will be coming soon.