Saturday, February 2, 2008

should I take this as a sign?

From an Icelandair press release, late 2007:

Icelandair will shift the focus of its North Atlantic operations next year. Scheduled flights to Toronto will start in May, while Baltimore/Washington will be taken out of the network this winter. The morning flights to Boston and New York out of Keflavik during the summer will continue this year and capacity to London will be increased slightly. Icelandair will terminate the Baltimore/Washington service effective January 13, 2008, while Toronto flights will begin May 2, 2008.

“Our schedule for 2008 will be similar to our 2007 schedule but we are changing our North Atlantic operations by moving to Toronto in Canada from Baltimore/Washington. We have expanded considerably over the past few years, so the focus in 2008 is on making adjustments to our network. We have a strong focus on serving our domestic Icelandic market and visitors to Iceland and we are fine-tuning the Icelandair network and our capacity in order to increase its profitability,” says Jón Karl Ólafsson, CEO of Icelandair.

Toronto is Canada's largest city and transportation center. “This city has the potential to become a very popular destination for Icelanders as it's a thriving multicultural city. It also offers possibilities for inbound tourism to Iceland as Toronto is the key Canadian transportation hub for millions of people. Last year we started flying again to Halifax, so we have a strong focus on Canada at the moment,” says Jon Karl. “We say goodbye to Baltimore/Washington now after flying to the city for years. Unfortunately the route became less profitable recently, following the departure of thousands of U.S. citizens from the U.S. military base in Iceland.”


Lots of snow in Toronto at the moment, and the city looks fantastic.

I've been listening quite a bit to the long-dormant southern Swedish band Eggstone. Here's one of their top tunes, "Never Been A Better Day":

2 comments:

Ghostopus said...
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ROBIN REDD said...

Thanks for the comment, I had no idea anybody outside my circle of, oh, eight friends, ever looked at my site.

If you're fixing to go to Iceland I'll go too. Seriously.