Iceland-based LCC Play Airlines has ceased operations.

A statement on the website confirms that all flights have been cancelled and that customers are advised to check flights with other airlines.

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The airline was formed in 2019 from the ashes of WOW, a similar Icelandic LCC. The airline flew to destinations across Europe with a fleet of 10 leased Airbus A321s run by a team of approximately 400 staff.

Changes to Play’s business model had been mooted throughout 2025, with a plan to give up it’s local AOC and become a ‘virtual airline’, retaining the AOC held by it’s Maltese subsidiary and transitioning to a privately held company.

However, these plans never came to fruition and the airline ran out of time and money on September 29.