Customer care

If you experience a long delay, you may be entitled to care. This can include meals and refreshments, accommodation, transportation, and access to a means of communication. This does not apply if providing care would further delay your journey.

What is a long delay?

• 2 hours or more for flights of 1,500 km or less.
• 3 hours or more for intra-Community* flights over 1,500 km and other flights between 1,500 and 3,500 km.
• 4 hours or more for all other flights.

Care can include:

• Meals and refreshments, in proportion to the waiting time.
• Accommodation and transportation, if your flight is delayed overnight and you’re unable to return home or to your temporary accommodation.
• Means of communication, if you need a place to call or send an email regarding the disruption.

Sometimes our team is unable to issue vouchers due to the volume of affected passengers. When that happens, we ask that passengers arrange care and claim reimbursement at the end of their journey through our Claims portal.

Meals and refreshments: In proportion to the waiting time. Please note that we don't reimburse the cost of alcoholic beverages.

Accommodation: Reasonable cost for an overnight stay varies based on location.

• North America: 200 EUR
• Europe: 180 EUR
• Greenland: 250 EUR

Transportation: Public transport or airport shuttle between the airport and accommodation.

Communication: Cost of placing two phone calls, sending two e-mails or faxes.

All expenses must be directly related to the disruption and supported by detailed receipts in the passenger’s name where applicable. 

EU regulation 261/2004 applies to journeys to the EU, Norway, Switzerland, or Iceland when you're flying with an airline based in one of those countries. It also applies to flights departing from those countries, regardless of the airline. It does not apply to trips that begin and end outside this area. For example, a journey that starts in the USA or Canada and ends in the Faroe Islands or Greenland, even with a transfer in Iceland, is not covered.

If your flight is delayed by 5 hours or more, you may be entitled to rerouting or reimbursement.

Rerouting

When possible, we reroute all eligible passengers on disrupted flights automatically. We send all notifications and updated itineraries to the email registered in the booking, so it's important to make sure that is correct. You can double check it in Manage booking or the Icelandair app. Sometimes automatic rerouting is not possible due to the number of affected passengers. In that case, passengers can request rerouting to their final destination on the next available Icelandair flight, under comparable transport conditions, if there are seats available.

Reimbursement

You can choose not to travel and have the unused parts of your ticket refunded for all passengers on the same booking. You can cancel or change your booking in Manage booking and request a refund here.

EU regulation 261/2004 applies to journeys to the EU, Norway, Switzerland, or Iceland when you're flying with an airline based in one of those countries. It also applies to flights departing from those countries, regardless of the airline. It does not apply to trips that begin and end outside this area. For example, a journey that starts in the USA or Canada and ends in the Faroe Islands or Greenland, even with a transfer in Iceland, is not covered.

If your flight is delayed, you may be entitled to compensation. The amount of compensation depends on the length of the delay and the distance of your flight.

All flights 1,500 km or shorter:

• EUR 250 if you are delayed by 3 hours or more.

All intra-Community flights over 1,500 km or all other flights between 1,500 and 3,500 km:

• EUR 400 if you are delayed by 3 hours or more.

All flights not covered by the above categories:

• EUR 300 if you are delayed by between 3 and 4 hours.
• EUR 600 if you are delayed by 4 hours or more.

When are you not entitled to compensation?

• Compensation does not apply if the delay is caused by extraordinary circumstances such as severe weather, strikes, or other situations that could not have been avoided even with all reasonable measures.

_{*Intra-Community flights refer to flights within the European Union (EU) and also include countries that are part of the European Economic Area (EEA), such as Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein. This means that flights between these countries, as well as flights from these countries to the EU, are covered under the same passenger rights regulations. Additionally, flights from outside the EU and EEA to an EU or EEA member state are also protected if operated by an EU or EEA airline.}

EU regulation 261/2004 applies to journeys to the EU, Norway, Switzerland, or Iceland when you're flying with an airline based in one of those countries. It also applies to flights departing from those countries, regardless of the airline. It does not apply to trips that begin and end outside this area. For example, a journey that starts in the USA or Canada and ends in the Faroe Islands or Greenland, even with a transfer in Iceland, is not covered.