Competition for Icelandair 10. nóvember 2006 11:38 Iceland Express MD aircraft at Keflavík International Airport The British charter flight Astraeus, which flies out of Gatwick airport in the UK, has plans to apply for permit from the Icelandic Government to fly from Iceland to the United States. The flights will be in co-operation with Iceland Express. Iceland Express has already announced their plans to begin scheduling flights from Iceland to New York and Boston next spring, in direct competition with Icelandair. Astraeus and Iceland Express are financially linked. Fons, the ownership company of Pálmi Haraldsson and Jóhannes Kristinsson, owns 51 percent share in Astraeus. They paid 650 million kronur for the shares. Fons also fully owns Iceland Express. The plan is to use Boeing 757 owned by Astraeus for the flights to the United States. Iceland Express does not own aircrafts but has a wide sales net and routes to Scandinavia. Iceland Express passengers from Scandinavia then have the possibility to fly to Iceland and then the United States and vice versa. News News in English Mest lesið „Ég vildi óska að fólk gæti séð drenginn minn eins og hann er“ Innlent Níu létust í árásinni í Vancouver Erlent Rukkaði konuna fyrir heimferðina eftir að hafa nauðgað henni Innlent Jón Ólafsson segir skilið við útvarpið Innlent Amman handleggsbrotin eftir hundsbit með barnabarnið í göngutúr Innlent Ráðamenn hneykslast á Exit-auglýsingu SFS Innlent Töldu Akureyringa ekki reka alvöruflugfélag Innlent Vita ekki hver áhrif fyrirætlanna Meta verða Innlent Kvenkyns ökumönnum fækkað: Áhyggjuefni ef almenningur treystir ekki leigubílstjórum Innlent Bréf ritað um borð í Titanic seldist á tugi milljóna Erlent
The British charter flight Astraeus, which flies out of Gatwick airport in the UK, has plans to apply for permit from the Icelandic Government to fly from Iceland to the United States. The flights will be in co-operation with Iceland Express. Iceland Express has already announced their plans to begin scheduling flights from Iceland to New York and Boston next spring, in direct competition with Icelandair. Astraeus and Iceland Express are financially linked. Fons, the ownership company of Pálmi Haraldsson and Jóhannes Kristinsson, owns 51 percent share in Astraeus. They paid 650 million kronur for the shares. Fons also fully owns Iceland Express. The plan is to use Boeing 757 owned by Astraeus for the flights to the United States. Iceland Express does not own aircrafts but has a wide sales net and routes to Scandinavia. Iceland Express passengers from Scandinavia then have the possibility to fly to Iceland and then the United States and vice versa.
News News in English Mest lesið „Ég vildi óska að fólk gæti séð drenginn minn eins og hann er“ Innlent Níu létust í árásinni í Vancouver Erlent Rukkaði konuna fyrir heimferðina eftir að hafa nauðgað henni Innlent Jón Ólafsson segir skilið við útvarpið Innlent Amman handleggsbrotin eftir hundsbit með barnabarnið í göngutúr Innlent Ráðamenn hneykslast á Exit-auglýsingu SFS Innlent Töldu Akureyringa ekki reka alvöruflugfélag Innlent Vita ekki hver áhrif fyrirætlanna Meta verða Innlent Kvenkyns ökumönnum fækkað: Áhyggjuefni ef almenningur treystir ekki leigubílstjórum Innlent Bréf ritað um borð í Titanic seldist á tugi milljóna Erlent