Etihad Airways vs Icelandair

Best product each one flies

Scored on what can be verified. Service, food and ground recovery are absent deliberately: they need someone in the seat, and they live in the reviews rather than here.

One caveat on the Value line, stated rather than buried: Value is computed from business fares, and a carrier with too few of them does not get a Value score at all. Where you see a dash, we have fewer than three priced business routes for that airline and did not want to invent a figure from one or two — so its product score is the mean of three dimensions rather than four, and it is not directly comparable to a score built on hundreds of fares. The airlines with the most fares behind them are named on the business-class ranking.

Dimension by dimension

• Seat: Etihad Airways

  10/10 on the A350-1000 / 787-9 (Business Studio) against 0/10 on the 737 MAX / 757 (Saga Premium).

• IFE: Etihad Airways

  Screens, connectivity and power: 8/10 against 4/10.

• Lounge & bags: level

  What the fare includes before you board: 10/10 against 10/10.

Common questions

Is Etihad Airways or Icelandair better to Europe?

Etihad Airways scores 9.3/10 against Icelandair at 6/10 on seat, screens, lounge and fare. On the four dimensions we can verify, Etihad Airways wins 2 and Icelandair wins 0. Service and food are not scored here because they cannot be read off a spec sheet.

Does the aircraft change the answer?

Not on seat: both carriers fly a consistent product across the aircraft we have verified.

Has Jon flown either of these?

Neither, so this page is product facts and fares only. Any review we publish of either will be labeled Researched until that changes.