Icelandair (FI, Reykjavik Keflavik) will retire its remaining three B767-300ERs by the end of 2029 and has no plans to operate passenger widebodies after that, chief executive Bogi Nils Bogason said during the carrier's quarterly earnings call.
"We recently finalised the review of our future widebody aircraft strategy. Our conclusion is to phase out these aircraft over the next years and place our focus on developing an efficient fleet of narrowbody aircraft. We foresee that 2029 will be the last year when Icelandair will be operating B767 passenger aircraft," Bogason outlined.
He emphasised that the decision was driven by the carrier's ability to serve its network with new-generation narrowbody aircraft. Icelandair currently operates three A321-200NX(LR)s with four more on order. It also plans to start adding thirteen A321-200NY(XLR)s in 2029.
The three B767s are 25.8 years old on average. They were inducted by Icelandair in 2015 and 2016. Each seats up to 262 passengers, including 25 business class seats. Two units are owned by Icelandair Group through its in-house vehicle Airco, while the third is leased from AerCap, the ch-aviation fleets ownership module shows. Icelandair deploys the widebodies on a variety of routes to the United States and Europe, most of which are up to around six hours of flight time. The longest route currently served with the B767s is from Reykjavik Keflavik to Seattle Tacoma International, which has a scheduled flight time of up to eight hours.
Besides the B767s and the A321neo, the carrier also operates seventeen B737-8s, four B737-9s, eleven B757-200s, and a single B767-300ER(BCF).
