Icelandair (FI, Reykjavik Keflavik) will soon end B757-300 operations as the last remaining aircraft in its fleet is transferred to Fly Khiva (2U, Tashkent International).
TF-FIX (msn 29434) will be reregistered in Uzbekistan and stop operating for the Icelandic flag carrier. Fly Khiva plans to dry-lease the 23.2-year-old aircraft after wet-leasing it from Icelandair for several months. The jet, powered by a pair of Rolls-Royce RB211 engines, has already been spotted at Frankfurt Hahn bearing the Fly Khiva logo on the fuselage.
The B757-300 arrived at Tashkent International on April 22 but has not flown since. Icelandair confirmed to ch-aviation that the aircraft is undergoing registration in Uzbekistan and will receive the designation UK75006. The aircraft is owned by Airco, ch-aviation fleets data reveals.
Icelandair has operated two B757-300s. Besides TF-FIX, the airline also utilised TF-ISX (now UK75007, msn 30179), which was adopted by Fly Khiva in the first quarter of 2025. Icelandair operated TF-FIX from 2002, while TF-ISX joined its fleet 16 years later.
The B757-300s will be replaced by more modern and efficient narrowbody types, such as the A321-200NX(LR) and A321-200NY(XLR). The carrier plans to add four more A321-200NX(LR)s by the end of 2025. It also has an outstanding order for thirteen A321-200NY(XLR)s and anticipates the delivery of the first of these in 2029.
The company remains one of the largest B757 operators in the world, with eleven B757-200 still in service. Icelandair also operates three A321-200NX(LR)s, seventeen B737-8s, four B737-9s, three B767-300ERs, and one B767-300ER(BCF). Subsidiary Flugfélag Íslands (FXI, Reykjavik Keflavik) operates three DHC-8-Q200s and three DHC-8-Q400s in the mainline carrier's network.
