KEF Reykjavik

How deep the KEF board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from KEF. This reads the same 76 destinations back for the questions a dispatcher asks second: how much of the board rests on one airline, how much of it runs less than daily, whether the return leg is as thick as the outbound, what the clock here does to a Gulf working day and which of the destinations shut at night, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 51of the 76 destinations are flown by one airline
• 38destinations run less than once a day
• 2destinations have four or more departures a day
• 71.1%of the destinations name Icelandair, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at KEF

32 airlines appear on the KEF board and they do not hold it evenly. Icelandair is on 54 of the 76 destinations, 71.1 per cent of them, and on 31 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 86.7 of the 99 departures a day this airport files, though other airlines fly some of the same sectors, so read that as reach rather than as a share of the aircraft.

The next largest presence is easyJet on 6 destinations. 23 of the 32 airlines at KEF appear on a single destination each, which is the long tail every airport carries, and none of it is a rebooking option when the sector you need is the one that fell over.

An airport held this tightly is quick to book and slow to recover: with 54 of the 76 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a KEF sector is usually another Icelandair aircraft, and when there is not one the desk is looking at another airport rather than another airline. No alternate airport within road reach is held for KEF, so that second look is a longer road leg or a different day.

How much of the KEF board is daily

Of the 76 destinations, 38 are flown at least once a day and 38 are not, 10 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the KEF board is flown about once a day.

An average of 0.14 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: KEF to Verona (VRN) is about one a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.

The five busiest destinations carry 22.4 of the 99 departures a day, 22.7 per cent of the whole board. The other 71 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at KEF usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Edmonton YEG	Canada	WestJet	1	4,922	plan this
Faro FAO	Portugal	Icelandair	1	3,155	plan this
Goteborg GOT	Sweden	Icelandair	1	1,987	plan this
Istanbul IST	Turkiye	Turkish Airlines	1	4,114	plan this
Kangerlussuaq SFJ	Greenland	Copenhagen Airtaxi	1	1,326	plan this
Málaga AGP	Spain	Icelandair	1	3,270	plan this
Mexico City NLU	Mexico	Silk Way West	1	7,381	the pair page
New York LGA	the United States	Starlink Aviation	1	4,155	plan this
Newburgh SWF	the United States	Icelandair	1	4,100	plan this
Verona VRN	Italy	Neos	1	2,922	plan this

The ten destinations out of KEF where one airline holds the sector and files fewer than seven departures a week, with the weekly figure taken as the average daily rate multiplied by seven rather than as a fixed timetable. 25 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from KEF

The desk holds the return direction for 62 of the 76 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On three of them the return into KEF runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Madrid (MAD) at 0.29 out a day against 0.14 back, Winnipeg (YWG) at 0.29 out a day against 0.14 back and Bâle/Mulhouse (BSL) at 0.43 out a day against 0.29 back.

It runs the other way as well: London (LHR) files 3.4 a day back into KEF against 1.1 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at KEF

KEF keeps Atlantic/Reykjavik time, four hours behind Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 05:00 at KEF, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for five hours. A customs question raised in the last four hours of the Dubai afternoon reaches nobody at KEF until the next morning, which is the practical limit on a same day instruction here.

The night at KEF

14 of the destinations from here carry a documented night restriction of their own, which is a departure time question at this end rather than an arrival problem at the other.

Into Paris (CDG) the door shuts at 00:00 local, so the last departure from KEF that lands inside it leaves around 18:38, on a modelled block of 3h 22m. Into Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from KEF that lands inside it leaves around 17:26, on a modelled block of 3h 34m. Into Amsterdam (AMS) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from KEF that lands inside it leaves around 17:54, on a modelled block of 3h 06m. Those three departure times out of KEF are worked backwards from the published window with the block time model this site uses everywhere, 720 to 880 km an hour by sector length with thirty minutes on the ground, so they are arithmetic rather than a timetable and the desk checks the published departure before it promises the landing.

Where KEF turns up on the rest of this site

KEF carries two other pages on this site as well: the Iceland country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport and the KEF transit page for the connecting case, where a courier changes aircraft here rather than starting or finishing.

The site publishes 5 airport pair pages that start or end at KEF, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Reykjavik to Oslo (OSL), Reykjavik to Helsinki (HEL) and Reykjavik to Glasgow (GLA).

Three courier postings name KEF as the airport a courier here flies from: Reykjavik, Reykjanesbær and Selfoss.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with KEF already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 76 destinations above.