Junior Sobral was almost one of the thousands of WOW Air passengers left stranded when the Icelandic budget airline abruptly shut down in 2019.
“I was supposed to be flying a week after [that] news emerged,” Sobral, an avid traveller who lives in Toronto, told CBC News.
But he said that won’t stop him from using another discount airline, Play, which is headquartered in Reykjavík, and got its first flights from Canada off the ground this week, from Hamilton’s John C. Munro airport.
Hamilton — the Ontario city is listed as “Toronto” on its booking site — is now the Icelandic airline’s fifth route in North America, joining New York, Washington, Boston and Baltimore.
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