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We PLAY to Win!

We PLAY to win and win we did!

The PLAY crew has been named the Best Cabin Crew by USA TODAY’s 10Best Readers’ Choice Awards!

No surprise there since they are truly amazing but the recognition is definitely worth celebrating.

Now that PLAY has been flying for over 3 years with over 4 million passengers, it's time to take a moment and review our amazing success. Despite our young age, we certainly mean business and we always play to win. Here's a list of our accolades, milestones and acknowledgements that we can safely say are our not-so-humble brags:

  • Equal Pay Certification, 2020-2023 and 2023-2026
  • Design Air Award - Best New Livery, 2021
  • Equality Scale from the Icelandic Association of Women Business Leaders (FKA), 2021 & 2022
  • Webmanuals- Customer of the Year, 2022
  • Sustainability Report of the Year, 2022
  • CAPA Startup of the Year, 2022
  • Iceland Customer Satisfaction Scale, 2022
  • Ch-Aviation Europe’s Youngest Aircraft Fleet, 2023 & 2024
  • Boost.ai Virtual Assistant Creativity Award for our chatbot Playfin, 2023
  • USA Today 10Best Reader’s Choice Award for Best Cabin Crew, 2023 and 2nd place in 2024
  • Top 5 world's best airlines 2024, AirHelp
  • Northern Europe's best low-cost airline, World Airline Awards, 2023 & 2024 Listed among the Top 100 airlines in the world (moved from 91 in 2023 to 87 in 2024)
  • Top 10 Airlines in Ancillary Revenue per PassengerLink opens in a new tab.
  • Consistently outstanding on-time performance that reached 94% in March 2024.

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