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Icelandic airline Play Airlines declared bankruptcy this Monday; And left thousands of passengers without flights, including Portuguese. Porto, Faro and Funchal are no longer air connection to Iceland.
Play Airlines (or fly play) declared bankruptcy and canceled all calls on Monday, leaving Thousands passengers retained in Iceland.
The decision to immediately end all operations was announced through a statement on the company’s website.
Thousands of passengers had flights in a few hours or days. This is the case of the Portuguese journalist Francisco David Ferreira.
In a publication on the social network X, the CNN Portugal pivot begins by saying that it is being “In a kind of unbelievable situation”.
“I am in Iceland, and the Play Airlines airline, with whom it was going to fly to Porto on Sunday, has just failed. Canceled the entire operation immediately“, he wrote.
“Fly Play has finished all operations and all flights were canceled,” the aviation company confirmed low-costin a statement.
Passengers who had scheduled flights, Fly Play advised customers to reschedule trips with other companiessuggesting that some may offer special rescue tickets.
As it says, the company faced a situation of financial difficulties, due to the low billing volume.
No Entanto, as an appointment or, to Icelandairthe main competitor, points out that, at the moment, is not offering special prices for these passengers.
The weekly states that the reimbursement should be communicated to the bankif the payment was made by bank card, or through the travel agencyif the tickets have been purchased there or be part of a package.
Seconds collected by the DN, Fly Play registered a net loss of $ 66.0 million in the 2024 fiscal period. The same indicator reached $ 26.8 million in the first quarter of 2025 and 15.3 million in the second quarter.
This situation left about 500 workers unemployed.
Fly Play was the only Icelandic company to fly to Porto, Faro and Funchal airports. Now, anyone who wants to go from Portugal to Iceland by plane can only do so from Lisbon.
