International flights at Keflavík Airport are back on schedule this morning after significant disruptions yesterday due to a sudden storm, which forced 15 Icelandair passenger jets to divert.

Ten jets were asked to delay landing at Keflavík Airport, with three Icelandair passenger planes instead landing at Reykjavík Airport.

Keflavík Airport recorded 119,000 international passengers in January, a 2% decrease from last year, with a significant drop in arrivals from the United States, marking the lowest January figure since 2016, excluding the pandemic years.

Approximately 2,000 international passengers were stranded on planes at Reykjavík, Akureyri, and Egilsstaðir airports for three hours due to adverse weather conditions at Keflavík Airport, which forced several Icelandair flights to divert.

A professional bus driver in Iceland was sentenced to a 30-day suspended prison sentence and a three-month driving ban after falling asleep at the wheel of a bus carrying passengers from Keflavík Airport, causing it to overturn.

Keflavík Airport has reopened for aircraft landings after severe weather conditions previously forced flights to be diverted or delayed.

Keflavík Airport reported a notable decline in passenger numbers in January, with departures from the United States experiencing the sharpest drop, a 27% decrease compared to the previous year.