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 „Þetta verður allt saman stórvarasamt í fyrramálið“ Veður Spyr hvort ökumenn myndu keyra á gangandi á götunni Innlent Myndskeiðið segi ekki alla söguna Innlent „Auðvitað slær þetta mig ekki vel“ Innlent Svipt barnabótunum vegna flugmiðakaupa Erlent Útlit fyrir nauman sigur frjálslyndra og fyrsta samkynheigða forsætisráðherra landsins Erlent „Fyrstu þrjú árin sem ég var veik voru algjört helvíti“ Innlent Reynsluboltum sagt upp í skugga ráðgjafabruðls Innlent Séra Flosi Magnússon fallinn frá Innlent Var ofurölvi þegar hann hljóp yfir Reykjanesbraut 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 „Þetta verður allt saman stórvarasamt í fyrramálið“ Veður Spyr hvort ökumenn myndu keyra á gangandi á götunni Innlent Myndskeiðið segi ekki alla söguna Innlent „Auðvitað slær þetta mig ekki vel“ Innlent Svipt barnabótunum vegna flugmiðakaupa Erlent Útlit fyrir nauman sigur frjálslyndra og fyrsta samkynheigða forsætisráðherra landsins Erlent „Fyrstu þrjú árin sem ég var veik voru algjört helvíti“ Innlent Reynsluboltum sagt upp í skugga ráðgjafabruðls Innlent Séra Flosi Magnússon fallinn frá Innlent Var ofurölvi þegar hann hljóp yfir Reykjanesbraut Innlent