Alaska Airlines is launching nonstop flights from Seattle to London and to Reykjavik, Iceland, in May 2026.

The daily flight to London will operate year-round while the Reykjavik flight will be available during the “summer season,” when the days are long in Iceland, Alaska said in a news release Tuesday.

The two routes are part of Alaska’s ongoing expansion and its effort to become a global airline. Seattle is at the center of Alaska’s ambitions, with plans to launch at least 12 new intercontinental flights from its Seattle hub by 2030.

Alaska has announced five of those new destinations since it laid out the vision in December 2024: Tokyo, which launched in May; Seoul, South Korea, coming in September; Rome, Italy, slated for May 2026 and now London and Reykjavik planned for the same m

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