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 Jón Ólafsson segir skilið við útvarpið Innlent Vita ekki hver áhrif fyrirætlanna Meta verða Innlent Hefur áhyggjur af rekstri skólans undir Rafmennt Innlent Rukkaði konuna fyrir heimferðina eftir að hafa nauðgað henni Innlent Úkraínskir hermenn séu farnir úr Kúrsk með hjálp Norður-Kóreu Erlent Aukið eftirlit til muna eftir brot bílstjórans gegn konunni Innlent Segir Pútin ekki vilja enda stríðið Erlent Bíl ekið inn í þvögu í Vancouver og nokkrir látnir Erlent Töldu Akureyringa ekki reka alvöruflugfélag Innlent Hreindýr í sjónum við Djúpavog 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 Jón Ólafsson segir skilið við útvarpið Innlent Vita ekki hver áhrif fyrirætlanna Meta verða Innlent Hefur áhyggjur af rekstri skólans undir Rafmennt Innlent Rukkaði konuna fyrir heimferðina eftir að hafa nauðgað henni Innlent Úkraínskir hermenn séu farnir úr Kúrsk með hjálp Norður-Kóreu Erlent Aukið eftirlit til muna eftir brot bílstjórans gegn konunni Innlent Segir Pútin ekki vilja enda stríðið Erlent Bíl ekið inn í þvögu í Vancouver og nokkrir látnir Erlent Töldu Akureyringa ekki reka alvöruflugfélag Innlent Hreindýr í sjónum við Djúpavog Innlent