{"id":293236,"date":"2025-09-29T20:09:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T10:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/play-ceases-operations\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T20:09:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T10:09:51","slug":"breaking-icelandic-low-cost-carrier-play-ceases-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=293236","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Icelandic Low-Cost Carrier PLAY Ceases Operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PLAY Airlines, the red-liveried Icelandic low-cost carrier based out of<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 International Airport<\/a><\/span>, has ceased operations after just over four years in the skies. Recent months have seen the airline make drastic cuts to its transatlantic network as it looked to reposition itself as a European operator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Approximately 400 job losses are expected as a result of the collapse.<\/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":[396,476,120,3147,17953,5756,5205],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-europe","category-iceland","category-image","category-keflavik-international-airport","category-play"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293236","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=293236"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293247,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293236\/revisions\/293247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}