STEWART – In about a year-and-a-half of daily service between New York Stewart International Airport near Newburgh and Iceland, Play Airlines has carried 100,000 passengers between the two cities, and that was with a one-month service suspension in the dead of the winter.
Play connects to several mainland European cities from its Reykjavik hub.
Port Authority airline attraction manager Alex Minton believes the Play popularity will continue to grow.
“Since the start of our daily international service, we have seen over 100,000 new international passengers at the airport, which is not as significant perhaps as when we had Norwegian Airlines serving the airport because of the scope of their service, but it certainly our highest number since they left the airport,” he said.
On the domestic side, only Allegiant Air is flying to Florida cities and seasonally to Myrtle Beach.
Frontier Air, which began service also to Florida last year, suddenly pulled out earlier this year.
