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Icelandair to Expand Canadian
Service with Open Skies Agreement
 The
governments of Iceland and Canada have signed an
Open Skies agreement to permit scheduled air
services for passenger and all-cargo traffic
between Canada and Iceland, effective immediately.
The new agreement replaces the Memorandum of
Understanding on Air Services that has allowed
operations to Canada by Icelandair, the flag
carrier of Iceland, since 1995.
"This marks a
significant advance in Icelandic aviation history,"
said Jon Karl Olafsson, President and CEO of
Icelandair and the Icelandair Group. "The strength
of our relationship with Halifax and Atlantic
Canada over the last decade has paved the way for
this success," he added. "Icelandair will initiate
flights from Toronto in Spring 2008 to complement
our Halifax service." Additional Canadian gateways
are under consideration for future
development.
"The Canadian
market plays a very important role in the growth of
our route network," said Gunnar Eklund,
Icelandair's General Manager-The Americas. "Our
expansion to Toronto will open an array of
opportunities for commercial and leisure travel
between Canada's most populated areas and Iceland,"
he added, "and to our many destinations in
Scandinavia, Great Britain and Continental Europe."
Eklund said Toronto will be an excellent connecting
point for Icelandair passengers traveling from
other Canadian cities.
In announcing
the agreement, Lawrence Cannon, Canada's Minister
of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities, said:
"This latest agreement under our Blue Sky policy
marks another step towards greater choice and
flexibility for Canadian travelers, while
connecting them to the world."
Icelandair will
offer 5-7 flights per week from Toronto with a
flying time of approximately five hours to Iceland.
Flights will connect in Iceland to other European
cities, including Copenhagen, Oslo, Bergen,
Stockholm, Gothenburg, Helsinki, Paris, Frankfurt,
Munich, Berlin, Amsterdam, London, Manchester and
Glasgow. Today Icelandair operates 160 flights per
week to 25 cities in North America and Europe via
its hub in Reykjavik.
Travel
information is available from Icelandair at (800)
223-5500, http://www.icelandair.ca
and
http://www.icelandair.com
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Icelandair
Canadian Highlights
Icelandair is
pleased to announce their return to Halifax, with
three flights per week (Mondays, Thursdays,
Saturdays) starting May 17. through September 24,
2007. Your clients can now fly non-stop to Iceland
with easy connections to Europe!
See your
CRS/GDS systems for prices and
schedules. FI
published fares, plated on FI/108, are
commissionaire at 8%\
Agent
Support: For
additional information in Canada,
please contact
us at: icelandair@gctc-mst.com, by phone at (204)
949-3023, or fax (204) 949-3020.
For additional
information in the USA, please contact
salessupport@icelandair.is
by phone at (800) 757-7242 EXT 775, or fax (410)
715-3547.
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