Since that time, Icelandair has added a few Boeing 737 MAX 8 jets for their fleet (they ordered a complete of 16 associated with the MAX both in the -8 and -9 variations), with them on paths to U.S. destinations in the coast that is east top midwest, along side a few European paths.
We flew SEA-KEF for a 757, then came back via Chicago for a 737 MAX 8, as Seattle is, unfortuitously, beyond the range that is working of MAX 8.
Therefore, couple of years on, that which was it want to travel Saga? Candidly, I became a fan for the trip that is last so that the memory nevertheless believed fairly fresh. My outgoing journey had been on TF-FIR, aka Vatnajökull, aka 80 several years of Aviation, aka the glacier livery.
This AvGeek had been stoked in the possibility to travel on Vatnajökull, though it had been parked at a large part gate between two jetways that are diagonal water, making photos more or less impossible that time. IMHO, it is usually the one of prettiest planes within the sky today, tied up for the honor with Icelandair’s Hekla Aurora livery on TF-FIU.
TF-FIR landing at Seattle-Tacoma airport terminal in 2017. We wasn’t capable of getting down from the ramp to have pre-flight pictures with this journey, therefore we’ll have actually which will make do by having an image that is existing
The outgoing journey from water to KEF had been as effective as the time that is last I happened to be in chair 1A with this journey, which will be in a bulkhead line. The seats on their own are exactly the same even as we reviewed in 2017. They feel much more dated now, specially when in comparison to modern choices even on some domestic US companies, but they’re still really comfortable and gives an amount that is generous of. ...