Food Timing on Icelandair

My experience was they started meal service not too long after takeoff for an overnight flight from the west coast. I didn't find the food that appetizing so I would eat at the airport before you depart or bring your own snacks.

We have been to Iceland many times and the food on the flight, for economy class, is hit or miss. We have only ever preordered once, and that meal was absolutely horrid. We asked the FA if we could purchase the ham and cheese baguette instead. He brought them complimentary, so they must get that a lot. The baguettes are actually pretty good, IMO, and that is what stick to now. I would though recommend eating in the airport before the flight or bring your own snacks. Since you are going to Iceland, you will probably be bringing your own refillable water bottle. On the plane, you can go back to the FA's and they will refill that for you as many times as you like.

They have dinner, but nothing for breakfast, in flight. At least on the flights from SEA.

We haven't flown Icelandair in a while, but on one of our flights, there was an announcement made that anything with peanuts was banned on the flight due to someone with a peanut allergy. I mentioned to the flight attendant that we didn't bring anything that didn't contain peanuts. She kindly comped us some sandwiches after the meal service had been completed.

Thank you for your kind responses!
Wendy

I'm leaving on Wednesday with my daughter from Minneapolis. We are flying to Iceland on Icelandair. Our plan is to have dinner at one of the many good restaurants at MSP. (our flight leaves around 7:30pm) and bring snacks along for later, just in case. Our flight arrives around 6:30 am so we plan to wait till we get to Reykjavik and get something for breakfast there (probably one of the delicious Braud cinnamon rolls I keep hearing about).

For an overnight flight of just a bit longer than 5 hours, I would bring nothing more than snacks.

We were on a 6.5 hour flight last month, Nashville to Reykjavik that departed at 9 pm. Dinner was served about 45 mins after departure (we had eaten prior to boarding). About an hour out of Reykjavik beverage service and breakfast was served—coffee was free. As I recall there were two breakfast options neither of which looked appealing. We had our own protein bars to eat with the coffee. There are many food options in Keflavik airport if you can’t wait til your first destination for breakfast.

Mardee--There is a great little bakery not far from KEF, Kokulist, about 5 minutes or so and they open early. There is also a Braud not far from there either. It is in Gardabaer and attached to the Kronan store.

I know you didn’t ask about this specifically, but for future readers of this post-kids 11 and under get a snack box and toy/book on each flight, for free. My 11 year old enjoyed it. It was like cheeese and crackers, some yogurt, trail mix, etc. nothing big, but enough to tie him over for the flight. I imagine younger kids would find it to be a full meal.

Iceland air food is something one can easily pass on. Bring your own.

For the flight to Iceland, it is such a short hop from the east coast (especially Boston) at the end of the night, that there is no need to purchase food going over. I would focus on trying to get some sleep (bring a sleep mask and shut down as soon as takeoff). On our flight about a week ago, almost no one purchased food going over and there was no service right before landing (not even coffee). As noted, if you need food in the morning, bring your own or get it at the airport. If you are leaving the airport after landing, as noted, Kokulist is a great little bakery not too far away with good coffee. On the flight back, we did get food, and I got the Nordic open-face sandwich, which I found tasty and filling. The other options did not look too good (my husband got the ham and cheese sandwich and that was a big sandwich and decent enough according to him).