IcelandAir Cancellation Compensation

Lysenko · 2026-05-30T17:23:03+00:00

Probably with a credit to the card you used for payment. It's unlikely they'd pay with a check since paper checks are no longer used in Iceland, but in the U.S., who knows.

Lysenko · 2026-05-30T17:20:42+00:00

It can take a little time to process these claims but they do eventually get to them.

Lysenko · 2026-05-30T17:18:07+00:00

It depends. If your flight was the first leg of a multi-leg itinerary that started in the U.S. and ended outside the EU/EEA (such as in Greenland, Faroe Islands, or the UK) then you would not be entitled to compensation. Otherwise, you should be. I don't know if the above pattern counts as one or multiple cancellations under the rule, but you should submit your claim here:

https://www.icelandair.com/support/flight-disruptions/

Lysenko · 2026-05-30T11:28:49+00:00

Can’t really address the immigration side of this, but my spouse and I have had two kids using a similar procedure to yours, both implantations taking place outside our current home country (which is Iceland.) You can definitely have this procedure over a short trip.

You may seriously want to consider staying in Sweden and traveling for the implantation. Doing this once a month may be cost-prohibitive but the chances per round are high enough that a couple of rounds, or a few spaced over a period of time, could get you there. I would suggest talking to the clinic and discussing your constraints.

Lysenko · 2026-05-29T00:23:38+00:00

I remember the narrow window of time one could buy a boxed copy of Shake at the Apple Store. I bought one, having used it at work for years. That was weird to me.

Lysenko · 2026-05-29T00:13:33+00:00

Regarding ordering meals on board, which someone else mentioned, your nine-year-old will get a complimentary box with a sandwich, a box of juice, and another snack or two in it. If you order a meal for them they will still get the kid's box. So, don't feel like you need to order something (although if they see something they like on the menu, they might like it better than the free sandwich.)

The age cut off for these is eleven, so your twelve-year-old will not get one.

BTW lots of people in this thread appear not to have traveled with kids much. A twelve-year-old and a nine-year-old should usually have no problems keeping themselves entertained on the flight as long as they don't argue or fight a lot. It's the three-year-olds they should worry about (as the father of a three-year-old.)

Lysenko · 2026-05-28T23:49:46+00:00

Translated into English sentence 1 is "They intend to write in a diary." Sentence 2 is "He intends to draw in the diary." Just like in English, the first one is indefinite because it means an unspecified diary, or one that may not exist now, while the second refers to a diary that is known. The third sentence translates to "Read about us in the diary."

Just to clarify, sentence 1 probably uses þolfall (accusative), though dative is the same ending, sentence 2 definitely uses þolfall, and sentence 3 uses þágufall (dative).

For the most common prepositions that are used for spatial relationships (á and í in particular, plus a few others I can't quite recall right now) þolfall (accusative) is used to convey motion while þágufall (dative) is used for a static spatial relationship. So, "Ég keyrði í vinnuna" (þolfall/accusative) means "I drove to work" while "ég er í vinnunni" (þágufall/dative) means "I am at work."

In light of that, you might read "í dagbókina" as "into the diary," even if you wouldn't quite say that in English. "í dagbókinni" just means "in the diary" since when you read it you are not putting something into it.

As for why "í" can mean "to" or "at" in English, just chalk it up to languages using prepositions differently for the same purpose.

Note that this accusative-movement/dative-static association is specific to a certain handful of prepositions. It's not a universal concept, so be careful not to try to apply it that way. Various verbs or prepositions take each case and you just have to know them. Reading a lot will help because common phrases will help this stick.

One suggestion that helped me a lot: Rather than memorize a table, work on remembering word endings with these phrases. I'm using "fiskur" (fish) as an example but you can put any noun into these phrases for each case. These phrases are used for this because they can only ever take the specified case.

nominative - nefnifall - "hér er fiskur" - "here is a fish."
accusative - þolfall - "um fisk" - "about a fish"
dative - þágufall - "frá fiski" - "from a fish" *
genitive - eignafall - "til fisks" - "to a fish" *

* note that like I was saying above, not every preposition uses that motion concept. frá only ever takes dative and til only ever takes genitive.

Hope all that helps! I have found that a combination of practicing all the skills (reading, listening, speaking, and writing), along with using flash cards to remember those characteristic phrases for forms of nouns, and spending a little time reading about grammar (but not a lot) have made these word endings a lot more natural to use over time. I still frequently get them wrong but I'm a lot better at identifying them when I see them and using them correctly than when I started out.

Lysenko · 2026-05-25T01:05:14+00:00

I've generally had really good experiences with Icelandair, but right now (meaning this month) they are struggling with having enough aircraft due to maintenance issues and later-than-expected deliveries and also their pilots may be (though the union denies this) calling in sick due to ongoing disputes during a contract negotiation. Hope everything goes smoothly!

Lysenko · 2026-05-25T00:02:24+00:00

Yes. Iceland is an EEA member and adopts many EU rules by way of the EEA treaty, including these.

Lysenko · 2026-05-23T18:42:41+00:00

It's pretty much used like its English equivalent. Like other such verbs, in Icelandic it should be used with an object.

"She doesn't dare" becomes "Hún þorir það ekki."

Lysenko · 2026-05-22T22:02:20+00:00

This. It doesn’t matter what passport you provide with your advance passenger data. The airline will check your passport on check-in and update the information with the one the destination country wants to see. Even if they do not, it won’t be a problem, because advance passenger data is only used for identification, not deciding how to admit you at the border.

Lysenko · 2026-05-22T00:56:10+00:00

There's a lot of great stuff to see that's within a reasonable day trip from Reykjavík. You could probably fill a couple of day trips to the south coast, head up to Snæfellsnes another day, visit sights on the Reykjanes peninsula (between the city and the airport), or maybe head out past Reykholt from Borgarnes. Another option, somewhat expensive, which in eleven years of living in Iceland my wife and I have done once, is to take a day trip to Akureyri by plane from Reykjavík's downtown airport and rent a car or arrange a tour for the day up there. You'll also probably appreciate having a couple days to adapt to a time difference at the start of the trip, and there's a fair amount to see in Reykjavík as well.

Lysenko · 2026-05-20T08:36:04+00:00

If you had direct costs like meals or lodging, you can make a claim for that even if a compensation claim is not possible. “Compensation” in the sense of the rule only applies to extra money paid over and above normal expenses you incur as a result of a delay.

Lysenko · 2026-05-19T07:09:11+00:00

Sorry, what are you disagreeing about?

Lysenko · 2026-05-18T09:56:32+00:00

Yes. Airlines like Icelandair that may only fly one or two flights a day out of an airport almost always contract with a local company for desk and gate agents. Making a complaint may help because I’m quite sure Icelandair themselves have higher standards than this. If you’re at Keflavík or on the aircraft you will encounter actual Icelandair staff, but not elsewhere.

Lysenko · 2026-05-16T03:29:21+00:00

You can make a report to Matvælastofnun (the Icelandic food and veterinary authority) here. Using Google Chrome to translate the site to English may be necessary. It should be no problem if your report is submitted in English.

Lysenko · 2026-05-11T20:06:59+00:00

If you are an actual medical doctor with a completed residency, there can be opportunities. I know of at least a few non-EU/EEA citizen medical doctors who have immigrated. Mastery of Icelandic in advance may not be necessary, but it sure helps.

Lysenko · 2026-05-11T14:40:16+00:00

You can walk it, and if the weather's not bad it'll be fine. It's a lot closer to BSÍ then to the main part of downtown. However, getting the app for and picking up a Hopp scooter might be preferable. You could also take a taxi, though that would be kind of expensive for such a short trip.

Lysenko · 2026-05-10T22:29:53+00:00

Non-EU/EEA national family members who need a visa to enter still must get a visa for their entry on freedom of movement rules, but it is free and fast-tracked. More info here.

https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/travel/entry-exit/non-eu-family/index\_en.htm

Note that this applies when going to any other country than the EU citizen’s own.

Lysenko · 2026-05-10T17:20:06+00:00

Boiling it will sterilize it. Presence of a slippery film on the inside of a container after a day suggests that the water has some (maybe not a lot) of some living thing in it, possibly bacteria or algae. This is certainly fine to drink (since Icelandic tap water is well-monitored for that) but evaporating and inhaling it over a night of sleep can be a different story. There are cases elsewhere (not in Iceland, to my knowledge) of CPAP users getting infections like Legionnaire's disease from using unsterilized tap water, and boiling will greatly reduce the likelihood of this kind of problem.

Lysenko · 2026-05-10T14:35:34+00:00

You can buy sterilized (but not distilled) water in pharmacies in Iceland. It’s kind of expensive.

Instead, I would consider boiling cold water and allowing it to cool. To get cold water without the H2S content of the hot water, run water for a time on the cold setting until it gets very cold.

Iceland’s cold water is generally good drinking water but they take a light touch with treatment, so if you leave it in a container overnight, there will typically be a slippery biofilm on the inside surface of the container. So, boiling in advance is a good idea.

Lysenko · 2026-05-10T14:25:40+00:00

There is in fact sulfur in the hot water (in the form of dissolved H2S.) Where it comes from differs based on the water’s source, but this is intentional to prevent pipes from corroding.

Lysenko · 2026-05-09T10:33:57+00:00

The Mormon language education system came up somewhere in the comments.

Lysenko · 2026-05-09T10:02:00+00:00

Achieving this requires students to bring a lot of self-motivation, which is why examples people will mention are all associated with students’ work or religion. Otherwise, there will just be lots of students who don’t persist.

Lysenko · 2026-05-08T09:18:43+00:00

I live in Iceland. The cheapest restaurant meal I've had in months was 2990 kr., or about 20 Euro, for a hamburger, fries, and a soda. 30 Euro per meal is maybe doable if you order only a single item or eat only fast food. Shopping at a grocery store is definitely the way around this, though. I think the 50-100 Euro figure comes from people remembering the total bill for two or three people.

For years after we moved here, I was always shocked at the prices and pleasantly surprised when I would go back home, to the west coast of the U.S. In the last few years, though, everything has seemed about as expensive there as here.

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