
Icelandair was founded in 1937 under the name Flugfelag Akureyrar. The new airline was based in Akureyri, a town in northern Iceland. In 1943 the airline moved to the capital Reykjavik and renamed Flugfelag Íslands. Icelandair Boeing 757-200 in 1944, the competition from a new airline, Loftleidir, also known as Icelandic Airlines. In 1945 Flugfelag [...]