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 Bylgja Dís er látin Innlent Fjárlög 2026: Ríkisstjórnin sýnir á spilin fyrir næsta ár Innlent Bera kennsl á mann fimmtíu árum eftir að hann lét sig hverfa Erlent „Mjög miður að við séum komin á þennan stað“ Innlent Fjórar ungar vinkonur fórust í eldsvoða í Noregi Erlent Daður við drengi sem verður kynferðislegt og endar með hótun Innlent Sveppamorðinginn í lífstíðarfangelsi í Ástralíu Erlent Sex látnir í skotárás Palestínumanna í Jerúsalem Erlent Treystir á afdráttarlaus viðbrögð bandamanna við árás helgarinnar Erlent Fundu villuráfandi ferðamenn nærri skálanum í Landmannalaugum Innlent
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 Bylgja Dís er látin Innlent Fjárlög 2026: Ríkisstjórnin sýnir á spilin fyrir næsta ár Innlent Bera kennsl á mann fimmtíu árum eftir að hann lét sig hverfa Erlent „Mjög miður að við séum komin á þennan stað“ Innlent Fjórar ungar vinkonur fórust í eldsvoða í Noregi Erlent Daður við drengi sem verður kynferðislegt og endar með hótun Innlent Sveppamorðinginn í lífstíðarfangelsi í Ástralíu Erlent Sex látnir í skotárás Palestínumanna í Jerúsalem Erlent Treystir á afdráttarlaus viðbrögð bandamanna við árás helgarinnar Erlent Fundu villuráfandi ferðamenn nærri skálanum í Landmannalaugum Innlent