It’s the ultimate boarding name for U.S. flights from a well-liked low-cost airline.

Iceland-based Play Airlines just lately introduced it could cease operations to and from the USA, in addition to all of North America, this fall. 

“All flights to North America stop as of October 2025,” the airline confirmed in a statement on its web site. 

The airline first launched flights to the U.S. in 2021 and presently operates routes from Baltimore, Boston, and New York to Reykjavik, Iceland. As soon as in Iceland, vacationers had the chance to fly to quite a lot of European locations together with Berlin, Copenhagen, Dublin, London, and Porto. 

Regardless of October being the introduced date for the top of operations, the airline is now not promoting any tickets for journey from New York to Iceland after Sept. 1, 2025. Tickets on the route for journey on Sept. 1 are presently going for as little as €174 one-way (roughly $201). 

Whereas the airline operates flights out of New York, it doesn’t use the primary airports like LaGuardia Airport (LGA), John F. Kennedy Worldwide Airport (JFK), or Newark Worldwide Airport (EWR). As a substitute, it makes use of New York Stewart Worldwide Airport (SWF) in Windsor, New York, which is roughly 77 miles north of New York Metropolis. Though that may be a important distance from town, the airport usually supplies a reduced possibility for vacationers and an everyday shuttle service. 

A consultant for the airline instructed Journey + Leisure that Play would contact all affected passengers for journey modification or refunds if wanted. 

Along with the top of the airline’s North America flights, Play can even bear a restructure and change from its present Iceland-based Air Operator Certificates, to a Maltese-based certificates. The airline can even take away its inventory trade itemizing and fly to fewer locations. It can additionally lease plane to different distributors. 

The choice of Play Airways to finish U.S. flights comes at a time when different airways have decreased routes or shut down. For instance, Silver Airways, a regional airline that operates flights all through the Bahamas, the Caribbean Islands, and Florida, just lately introduced a sudden shut down as nicely.