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 Fundu lík karlmanns í Reynisfjalli Innlent Fjórir í bílnum en enginn við stýrið Innlent Yazan afar létt að vera ekki vísað frá landi Innlent „Ég hefði bara sagt af mér á staðnum“ Innlent Kona á níræðisaldri sá björninn í þriggja metra fjarlægð Innlent Frambjóðandi Trump lýsti sér sem „svörtum nasista“ á klámsíðu Erlent Íbúar Springfield klofnir í afstöðu sinni til heimsóknar Trump Erlent Sýknaður af ákæru um manndráp af gáleysi á Akureyri Innlent Títan bilaði og lenti í árekstri nokkrum dögum fyrir hinstu förina Erlent Ákærður fyrir að stinga lækni í kvöldgöngu 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 Fundu lík karlmanns í Reynisfjalli Innlent Fjórir í bílnum en enginn við stýrið Innlent Yazan afar létt að vera ekki vísað frá landi Innlent „Ég hefði bara sagt af mér á staðnum“ Innlent Kona á níræðisaldri sá björninn í þriggja metra fjarlægð Innlent Frambjóðandi Trump lýsti sér sem „svörtum nasista“ á klámsíðu Erlent Íbúar Springfield klofnir í afstöðu sinni til heimsóknar Trump Erlent Sýknaður af ákæru um manndráp af gáleysi á Akureyri Innlent Títan bilaði og lenti í árekstri nokkrum dögum fyrir hinstu förina Erlent Ákærður fyrir að stinga lækni í kvöldgöngu Innlent