{"id":292328,"date":"2025-09-28T01:06:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T15:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/just-1-route-left-this-transatlantic-airline-will-end-all-us-flights-next-month\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T01:06:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T15:06:16","slug":"just-1-route-left-this-transatlantic-airline-will-end-all-us-flights-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=292328","title":{"rendered":"Just 1 Route Left: This Transatlantic Airline Will End All US Flights Next Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On <strong>October 24<\/strong>, the Icelandic low-cost carrier <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"258013\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>PLAY<\/span><\/span> will take off on its final US-bound journey. Aptly, this will be from <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"260617\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/keflavik-international-airport\/\"  >Keflavik<\/a><\/span><strong> to Baltimore<\/strong>, which was its inaugural US route in April 2022. I have fond memories of being on it. PLAY has said its <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"128663\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states\/\"  >US<\/a><\/span> market was expensive and loss-making, not least because it is heavily competitive and seasonal, and is overcapacity. Yields were not where they needed to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last of its Canadian flights ended earlier this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,5205,406,15477,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-play","category-routes","category-sf-routes-analysis","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=292328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292330,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292328\/revisions\/292330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=292328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=292328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=292328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}