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 Hætta með ökuskírteini í símaveski vegna Evrópureglna Innlent Trump sendir þjóðvarðlið til Los Angeles Erlent Ísraelsmenn undirbúi árás á skútuna með Gretu Thunberg um borð Erlent „Ertu kannski Íslendingur?“ Erlent Hótar Musk alvarlegum afleiðingum styðji hann Demókrata Erlent 70 milljóna króna halli vegna uppsagnar samningsins Innlent Alþjóðlegir sérfræðingar ræða baráttuna gegn myglu í Hörpu Innlent Þrír reyndu að komast undan lögreglu Innlent Danskar herþotur verða staðsettar á Grænlandi Erlent Rannsökuðu eigin samsæriskenningar um fljúgandi furðuhluti Erlent
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 Hætta með ökuskírteini í símaveski vegna Evrópureglna Innlent Trump sendir þjóðvarðlið til Los Angeles Erlent Ísraelsmenn undirbúi árás á skútuna með Gretu Thunberg um borð Erlent „Ertu kannski Íslendingur?“ Erlent Hótar Musk alvarlegum afleiðingum styðji hann Demókrata Erlent 70 milljóna króna halli vegna uppsagnar samningsins Innlent Alþjóðlegir sérfræðingar ræða baráttuna gegn myglu í Hörpu Innlent Þrír reyndu að komast undan lögreglu Innlent Danskar herþotur verða staðsettar á Grænlandi Erlent Rannsökuðu eigin samsæriskenningar um fljúgandi furðuhluti Erlent