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 Trump segir Hamas og Ísraela hafa náð samkomulagi Erlent Skýr afstaða landsmanna um hvort einkunnir eigi að vera í tölum eða bókstöfum Innlent Segir lægri álagningu á húsnæði en í öðrum greinum Fréttir „Ég ætla ekki að jarða hann, ég ætla að hafa hann á lífi“ Innlent „Auðvitað er ég hrædd um hana“ Innlent Varnargarðar hækkaðir við Grindavík Innlent Kenna Evrópu- og Bandaríkjamönnum um litlar líkur á friði Erlent Handtekinn fyrir að kveikja skæðasta eld Los Angeles Erlent Hitnar undir feldi Lilju Innlent Björk styður æskuvinkonu sína sem sætir svívirðingum 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 Trump segir Hamas og Ísraela hafa náð samkomulagi Erlent Skýr afstaða landsmanna um hvort einkunnir eigi að vera í tölum eða bókstöfum Innlent Segir lægri álagningu á húsnæði en í öðrum greinum Fréttir „Ég ætla ekki að jarða hann, ég ætla að hafa hann á lífi“ Innlent „Auðvitað er ég hrædd um hana“ Innlent Varnargarðar hækkaðir við Grindavík Innlent Kenna Evrópu- og Bandaríkjamönnum um litlar líkur á friði Erlent Handtekinn fyrir að kveikja skæðasta eld Los Angeles Erlent Hitnar undir feldi Lilju Innlent Björk styður æskuvinkonu sína sem sætir svívirðingum Innlent