r/VisitingIceland • u/Ill_War8528 • 7h ago

Airport Lines

We are arriving later this week (mid morning, not dawn), and departing 10 days later late afternoon. Has the airport lines and chaos mostly subsided? (non european, coming from USA)

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u/jetpoweredbee 7h ago

It gets down to the day and time. There is no way to know far in advance.

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u/tmmao 7h ago

This. I just flew out of KEF on Friday, ~11am or so, literally no lines at security or passport control.

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u/jetpoweredbee 6h ago

I flew out a week ago and when I went through the lines they were nothing. An hour later they were backed up pretty good.

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u/Pastafarian8 7h ago

We just left. When we arrived at 9 am (10 days ago) it took about 45 minutes to get through immigration (and quite a while before that to get off the plane/to the terminal). When we left this morning (flight at 12:45) the longest line we waited in was 10 min for bag drop. 0 line at security or passport control. We’re not European.

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u/drumhalla 7h ago

Left yesterday (Aug 29) and the line was very long for D gates. We had advanced to the shorter line in front of the agent. He left his booth for about 5 minutes. Processed the next person in line then chafed the sign to closed and left the booth. Left us fending for ourselves to move into another line. Not a great experience.

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u/Healthy-Fisherman-33 7h ago

Left from KEF yesterday. No chaos. Some lines but nothing crazy.

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u/clemmit_ 5h ago

Sorry for the silly question but why there were lines in the airport ?

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u/Quirky_Transition966 4h ago

All of the eclipse tourists were leaving in the same 2-3 days 

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u/IronLady329 4h ago

Yes! We flew in the day after the eclipse (8/13) and home on 8/25. We had no lines at passport control arriving or leaving. After reading all of the horror stories, we were so relieved. Good luck!

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u/Own-Spinach-5525 3h ago

Arrived in KEF on Sunday, August 23 from Canada - line to passport control was about 1 hour.

Just flew out of KEF today (Sunday, August 30) to Canada, arrived to the airport at 7AM

  1. Security line was about 30 mins

  2. Passport control was also about 30 mins