16 percent overall and 20 percent from the United States, prompting a decline in vacation home and hotel construction. Potential successor airlines PLAY In July 2019, former Wow Air executives announced their intention to form a new airline, tentatively named WAB air ("We Are Back"), aiming to operate six aircraft to 14 destinations across Europe and the US. In November 2019, WAB air was renamed as PLAY. In May 2021, the airline announced the registration of its air operator's certificate, as well as the acquisition of its first A321neo aircraft. The company opened routes between Iceland and seven European destinations starting on 24 June 2021. Wow Air (USAerospace Associates) In September 2019, USAerospace Associates announced the acquisition of Wow Air's assets and said it would launch flights in October 2019 between Washington Dulles International Airport and Keflavík using a United States air operator's certificate, eventually to operate 10-12 Airbus and Boeing aircraft with both passenger and cargo service. However, no inaugural service date was announced, airport officials at the claimed destinations would not confirm arrangements to use airport facilities, and no application for a new air operator's certificate had been filed. That October, the company said it would start ticket sales in November and flights in December, but no schedules nor destinations were ever announced. Later in October, an airline spokesperson said that Wow Air would initially transport cargo only but would begin passenger service to mainland Europe at an unspecified later date. On 28 February 2020, Wow Air announced on social media that it would launch Wow Italy—part of "WOW World"—which would commence passenger and cargo operations to Rome and Sicily "in the very near future". In November 2020, in an interview with RÚV, USAerospace chairman Michele Roosevelt Edwards claimed that Wow would launch flights from Keflavík and various U.S. airports in early to mid-2021, including domestic flights in the U.S., but airport officials contacted by RÚV would not confirm this. Roosevelt Edwards said the airline was obtaining ten Airbus A321s, two of which had already been delivered and were being painted, but no evidence of this was provided. Despite previously claiming the venture was "fully financed", she said that Wow had yet to complete financing arrangements. Roosevelt Edwards' lawyer in Iceland told RÚV that the Icelandic staff hired in 2020 no longer worked for the company, and that the airline's headquarters would not be in Iceland, but did