Whaling detrimental to Icelandair 27. október 2006 09:58 Jón Karl Ólafsson: "Causing a great deal of harm to the airline" The Managing Director of Icelandair. Jón Karl Ólafsson, has declared his opposition to whaling and says that it could do a great deal of harm to the airline. The company received its first major cancellation yesterday from a travel agency. Icelandair has suffered a lot of hate mail and opposition abroad due to Iceland's whaling. Ólafsson believes that the Governmen's decision was badly thought out and that they did not take into consideration the hundreds of million Icelandic kronas generated by the Icelandic travel industry annually. The Icelandic association of whale watching companies have also condemned the decision to start commercial whaling and have challenged Sturla Böðvarsson, Minister for Tourism to ask for the decision to be reconsidered. The Icelandic ambassador in London was asked a second time to meet Ben Bradshaw, Britain's Minister of Fisheries, where Bradshaw once again stressed the British Govermnent's opposition to Iceland's whaling. News News in English Mest lesið Útlit fyrir mestu snjókomu í október í manna minnum Innlent Um 140 umsækjendur um alþjóðlega vernd týndir og eftirlýstir Innlent Erfitt að segja til um viðbrögð við nýjum faraldri miðað við Covid-viðbrögð Innlent Allt að þriggja tíma bið í dekkjaskipti Innlent Matarbankar segjast ekki munu anna eftirspurninni Erlent Komu innlyksa mæðginum til bjargar í Landmannalaugum Innlent Garðheimar ljósið í myrkrinu við meinta gímaldsgötu Innlent Aftökur á meintum smyglurum „ekki morð“ heldur „vörn við eitri“ Erlent Leit að flugvélinni horfnu engan árangur borið Erlent Gular viðvaranir vegna snjókomunnar suðvestantil Veður
The Managing Director of Icelandair. Jón Karl Ólafsson, has declared his opposition to whaling and says that it could do a great deal of harm to the airline. The company received its first major cancellation yesterday from a travel agency. Icelandair has suffered a lot of hate mail and opposition abroad due to Iceland's whaling. Ólafsson believes that the Governmen's decision was badly thought out and that they did not take into consideration the hundreds of million Icelandic kronas generated by the Icelandic travel industry annually. The Icelandic association of whale watching companies have also condemned the decision to start commercial whaling and have challenged Sturla Böðvarsson, Minister for Tourism to ask for the decision to be reconsidered. The Icelandic ambassador in London was asked a second time to meet Ben Bradshaw, Britain's Minister of Fisheries, where Bradshaw once again stressed the British Govermnent's opposition to Iceland's whaling.
News News in English Mest lesið Útlit fyrir mestu snjókomu í október í manna minnum Innlent Um 140 umsækjendur um alþjóðlega vernd týndir og eftirlýstir Innlent Erfitt að segja til um viðbrögð við nýjum faraldri miðað við Covid-viðbrögð Innlent Allt að þriggja tíma bið í dekkjaskipti Innlent Matarbankar segjast ekki munu anna eftirspurninni Erlent Komu innlyksa mæðginum til bjargar í Landmannalaugum Innlent Garðheimar ljósið í myrkrinu við meinta gímaldsgötu Innlent Aftökur á meintum smyglurum „ekki morð“ heldur „vörn við eitri“ Erlent Leit að flugvélinni horfnu engan árangur borið Erlent Gular viðvaranir vegna snjókomunnar suðvestantil Veður