In a November 24 statement by Senior Airman Colleen Anthony of the 62nd Airlift Wing, USAF Col. Matthew McNulty, the outgoing ...

this isn't Icelandair's first time in the Deep South – back in 2015, Icelandair became the first commercial airline to land a plane on a blue-ice runway in Antarctica.

Coming to Antarctica was Mike Libecki’s idea ... We begin our journey in early November, landing at a blue-ice runway near a Russian research station named Novolazarevskaya.