Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson is set to fly one of the first flights

One of the first flights out of New York with Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson after Hurricane Irene struck the city is set to fly, reports the Press Association.

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The singer, who for years has held a pilot's license and who regularly fly to chartered airline Astraeus, will Newark Airport in New Jersey Ice Island Airways 200 passenger airline will fly to Reykjavik in Iceland.

Dickinson will fly a 757 aeroplane have been painted in the colors is Iron Maiden and has been most recently extended world tour with his band as the aircraft is in use, which ended three weeks ago.

Rumours that the singer recently said he was considering retirement, though, Iron Maiden project, "make at least one more album" and have begun planning for the recording of the follow-up to 2010's 'The Final Frontier'.