WOW air (Reykjavik Keflavik) has announced that it has taken over the commercial responsibility for all flight operations of competitor Iceland Express (Reykjavik Keflavik) with immediate effect. The two companies with a similar business model offering low-cost carrier type service with aircraft chartered from Eastern European charter operators had been competing this summer on many seasonal routes to Iceland. WOW air has been set up by the former CEO of Iceland Express and has operated with two A320-200s wet-leased from Avion Express (X9, Vilnius) since early June 2012. WOW has stressed that it has not acquired Iceland Express but will simply honour all tickets already sold by its competitor. Potentially related, one of the A320-200s operated by Holidays Czech Airlines (Prague Václav Havel) on behalf of Iceland Express has been impounded at Keflavik today due to unpaid landing fees at the airport. The two virtual carriers already had both only planned a very limited operation in winter offering just routes from Keflavik to Copenhagen Kastrup and London Gatwick in Iceland Express' case and from Keflavik to Berlin Schönefeld and London Gatwick in WOW air's case. Next summer, WOW air plans to also serve Alicante, Amsterdam Schiphol, Barcelona El Prat, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt International, Lyon St. Exupéry, Milan Malpensa, Paris CDG, Stuttgart Manfred Rommel, Vilnius, Warsaw Chopin and Zurich. Barcelona, Frankfurt Hahn and Vilnius are the only three destinations WOW was not planning to serve anyway. Iceland Express had previously also announced Boston and Oslo Gardermoen as part of its summer programme for next year.