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If you haven’t made it to Iceland this year on the new route on Icelandair, you’ll have a longer season in 2025 to make that trip.

Icelandair, which started nonstop flights to Iceland on May 16 (the season runs through October) announced that it will be starting nonstop flights in 2025 out of Pittsburgh International Airport on April 17 – a month earlier than the start this year.

It will continue to operate the route four times a week, on Sundays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, according to Blue Sky News, the news service for the Allegheny County Airport Authority.

Pittsburgh last had a nonstop flight to Iceland in 2019 via the no-frills Wow Air, but that ended when the airline started cutting flights and destinations because of financial problems.

Tuesday’s announcement comes a week after regional leaders, led by PIT CEO Christina Cassotis and Allegheny County Executive Sara Innamorato, visited Iceland to meet with business, tourism and governmental officials. They estimate that the Pittsburgh to Reykjavik route has an annual economic impact of $9 million to this region.

The authority has been working to increase its number of international flights out of PIT. Earlier this month British Airways announced it will expand its nonstop seasonal service from Pittsburgh to London’s Heathrow Airport to seven days a week, starting on March 31, 2025. The nonstop service, which has been operating six days a week, launched in April 2019.