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 Sá eini fagmenntaði missti vinnuna Innlent Vill að flugumferð verði beint frá loftrými kirkjunnar á meðan þau flytja Bach Innlent Þyrla ferjaði vistir fyrir fjallgönguhóp Ratcliffe Innlent Óbeit ungra drengja á trans fólki áhyggjuefni Innlent Handtekinn fyrir að fara á forboðna eyju Erlent Óttast að efnið sé þegar komið í dreifingu á Íslandi Innlent Átta ára sæmd heiðursmerki fyrir að bjarga lífi móður sinnar Innlent Setja skorður á tjáningu meðlima til að „kæla aðeins niður hitann“ Innlent Þúsund sinnum sterkara en morfín og erfitt að þekkja Innlent Sektaður fyrir of stutt bil milli bíla 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 Sá eini fagmenntaði missti vinnuna Innlent Vill að flugumferð verði beint frá loftrými kirkjunnar á meðan þau flytja Bach Innlent Þyrla ferjaði vistir fyrir fjallgönguhóp Ratcliffe Innlent Óbeit ungra drengja á trans fólki áhyggjuefni Innlent Handtekinn fyrir að fara á forboðna eyju Erlent Óttast að efnið sé þegar komið í dreifingu á Íslandi Innlent Átta ára sæmd heiðursmerki fyrir að bjarga lífi móður sinnar Innlent Setja skorður á tjáningu meðlima til að „kæla aðeins niður hitann“ Innlent Þúsund sinnum sterkara en morfín og erfitt að þekkja Innlent Sektaður fyrir of stutt bil milli bíla Innlent