Iceland's Main Airport Finally Gets Its First Domestic Route
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If Iceland wants to do a better job spreading its massive influx of visitors around the country, it's going to need to more than one domestic flight out of Keflavik.
If you're flying to Iceland, in all likelihood you will be landing at Keflavik Airport, situated 30 miles from Reykjavik, the capital.
In 2015, 97.9% of all foreign visitors to Iceland land at Keflavik and the increase in arrivals reflects the overall rapid growth in tourism in Iceland. In the past five years the number of passengers traveling through Keflavik Airport has surged from 2.5 to 4.9 million with a further 37% growth estimated this year.
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But it isn't just the increase in passengers that makes Keflavik Airport exceptional but the fact that all flights that take off from there have overseas d
