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 Dó fjórum árum eftir að hún hvarf Innlent Nýtt líkan nýjung á Íslandi: VG og Sósíalistar nái ekki á þing og óvissa um Miðflokk Innlent Kosningavaktin: Íslendingar ganga að kjörborðinu Innlent Kom verðmætum fyrir í röngum bíl sem hvarf á brott Innlent Stöðvun megi rekja til klúðurs og skorts á fjármagni Innlent Maðurinn er fundinn Innlent Mestu virkjanaframkvæmdir í sögu Grænlands framundan Erlent Stærsti skjálftinn við Öskju frá ársbyrjun 2022 Innlent Í sjálfheldu á eigin svölum Innlent Baráttan hafin á TikTok: Traktor í Skeifunni, kaldar kveðjur og endurkoma 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 Dó fjórum árum eftir að hún hvarf Innlent Nýtt líkan nýjung á Íslandi: VG og Sósíalistar nái ekki á þing og óvissa um Miðflokk Innlent Kosningavaktin: Íslendingar ganga að kjörborðinu Innlent Kom verðmætum fyrir í röngum bíl sem hvarf á brott Innlent Stöðvun megi rekja til klúðurs og skorts á fjármagni Innlent Maðurinn er fundinn Innlent Mestu virkjanaframkvæmdir í sögu Grænlands framundan Erlent Stærsti skjálftinn við Öskju frá ársbyrjun 2022 Innlent Í sjálfheldu á eigin svölum Innlent Baráttan hafin á TikTok: Traktor í Skeifunni, kaldar kveðjur og endurkoma Innlent