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Icelandic FBO joins Avitat family
Icelandic FBO SouthAir offers what it describes as a red-carpet stepping stone for corporate aircraft operators crossing the forbidding North Atlantic.

Icelandic FBO SouthAir offers what it describes as a red-carpet stepping stone for corporate aircraft operators crossing the forbidding North Atlantic. The two-year-old facility is one of the newest members of ExxonMobil’s Avitat chain of FBOs.

The company has been in business for the best part of three decades, but for much of this time it focused on less salubrious activities, such as flying Icelandic cod down to the UK and France. In 1999, it moved-up market when it opened a 13,000-sq-ft executive terminal at Keflavik’s Leifur Eriksson International Airport. However, at the downtown airport in Iceland’s capital Reykjavik (28 mi away), SouthAir faces stiff competition from Flight Services, which excelled in the 2001 European FBO Survey published in May by Aviation International News.