Icelandair terminates Baltimore / Washington flights in 2008
Icelandair has shifted its focus on North Atlantic flights. The route changes will be that: flights to Toronto will be added as a new destination, the...
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The treatment of Lillendahl by US customs was unacceptable
The Icelandic government has asked for an explanation from the US authorities about the treatment of Erla Ósk Lilliendahl, an Icelandic native that go...
Data Islandia and Hitachi offer green data storage
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) recently signed a partnership with Data Islandia, a data storage firm based in Iceland. The partnership will create what HD...
Iceland’s winter whoopers a feat of bird aviation
This year the UK Wildfowl & Wetland Trust (WWT) and its partners in Iceland and Ireland are working together with new technology to gain insights ...
White House, this is Iceland calling
Last week Vifill Atlason, a 16 year old high school student in Iceland, picked up the phone and placed a call to the White House. Atlason claimed to b...
Akureyri ski resorts open
The major ski area on Hlidarfjall near Akureyri in northern Iceland opened for business this week. Three lifts on the mountain were opened for the fir...
Icelandic fish exporter Tros sold
One of Iceland’s largest exporters of fresh fish by air to the UK and US has been sold to another Icelandic seafood company. Iceland Seafood Int...
Iceland sees highest increase in drinking
The 2007 report from the OECD indicates that Icelanders have increased their consumption of alcohol by 65% since 1980, the highest level of all member...