Icelandair operates a flight from Keflavik to Antarctica. Since the range of the Boeing 767 is not sufficient for the 7.100-mile route, a refueling stop was made in Cape Town.

The destination of the long-haul jet is the Troll Research Station on the continent of Antarctica. Lufthansa recently flew the longest flight in the company's history and brought researchers from Germany to the Falkland Islands. An Airbus A350-900 was used.

The TF-ISN took off on February 24, 2021 in Keflavik under the flight number FI1010. First you flew to Cape Town. According to Icelandair, in addition to Norwegian researchers, there were six pilots, 13 flight attendants and a mechanic on board. The purpose of the flight is for scientists to be picked up and flown home.

Icelandair already has experience landing on the ice runway in Antarctica. In 2015 they were on a similar mission with a Boeing 757 in Antarctica. At that time, the carrier even wrote aviation history, as it was the first time a commercial airliner landed on the freezing continent.

The following documentation shows the mission of the year 2015: