Hippie Express: Loftleidir's Low Cost Long-haul

RStretton

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Hippie Express: Loftleidir's Low Cost Long-haul

03-07-2018, 12:50 PM

Long before there was WOW Air Iceland has been used as a jumping off point to connect Europe to North America. The pioneer of these operations was Loftleidir who like Seaboard World used CL-44s before switching to Douglas jets:

Hippie Express: Loftleidir’s Low Cost Long-haul - YESTERDAY'S AIRLINES

https://www.yesterdaysairlines.com/airline-history-blog/hippie-express-loftleidirs-low-cost-long-haul

Iceland sits in a fortuitous position in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Wow Air is currently leveraging this benefit but it is hardly the first airline to do so. That accolade goes to Loftleidir Icelandic, which for many years found a way around the strict regulated transatlantic market to provide the world's first low

Loftleidir Douglas DC-8-63 by rstretton, on Flickr

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Juneau_Flyer

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03-19-2018, 10:37 AM

Nice write up my friend. Keep them coming!

Thanks for sharing

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