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Because we all know “the clothes make the man” (and women, certainly as well), Icelandair has put a lot of thought into dressing its crew. “It’s quite a challenge to create a good uniform,” says Einarsdóttir. “The people who wear them ought to feel good in terms of both comfort and design.”

Iceland’s most notorious delicacy hákarl (rotten shark) may have made Gordon Ramsay’s stomach turn on the The F-Word but curious foodies can sample some for themselves from January 25 – February 23, 2009 during Thorrablot - Iceland’s annual mid-winter Viking feast.

Icelandair is in the process of introducing the Company’s new schedule for next summer. Icelandair will fly to 23 destinations with a schedule featuring up to 136 flights per week. New features include regular flights to Stavanger in Norway and Dusseldorf in Germany, while flights to Orlando in Florida will be suspended next summer. The frequency of flights to Toronto in Canada will be increased, but on the whole the flight schedule will be reduced from last summer.

To celebrate the season and the fact that the pound is nearly 50% stronger against the Icelandic Krona than last winter, Icelandair invites the UK to Dive into Iceland with a £199 City Break, the lowest priced package offered by Icelandair this year. It makes an ideal Christmas present and features return flights from London Heathrow or Manchester to Reykjavik, 3 nights hotel accommodation and entrance into Laugardalslaug, Reykjavik’s largest thermal pool complex.

Icelandair has taken the decision to reduce its winter operation from Glasgow to Iceland during winter 08/09 with no flights from 4 December to 28 December and 8 January 2009 to 22 March 2009. The 30 December 2008 and 4 January 2009 flights will remain in the schedule to accommodate New Year’s Eve travellers.

As a part of the exciting changes happening at Icelandair, the airline has announced the launch of its new website, and stepping on board the updated aircraft, passengers will also notice new ergonomically designed seats with personal in-flight entertainment systems, a roomier interior with a new look and a sleeker more comfortable approach to transatlantic travel.

Icleandair invited almost one hundred children with cancer illnesses to the biggest Nordic amusement park with their families. Icelandair´s Boeing 757 airplane and crew, which volunteered their work that day, waited at the airport while the children and their families enjoyed themselves at the park.

Icelandair commemorated its first flight between Iceland and Toronto on May 2, 2008. With up to five flights weekly, this service marks the extension of Icelandair's service into Canada under the Open Skies agreement between the Canadian government and Iceland.

An Icelandair Boeing 757 will make its screen debut alongside superstar Brendan Fraser and Icelandic newcomer Anita Briem in New Line Cinema’s summer blockbuster Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D. The movie is based on Jules Verne’s sci-fi masterpiece, in which Snaefellsjökull glacier in Iceland conceals the secret entrance to the center of the Earth.

Landsmót is the Icelandic name for the biannual National Horse Show of Iceland, the world’s biggest event involving the popular Icelandic horse. The schedule represents the pinnacle of excellence in the handling and breeding of Icelandic horses.

More personal comfort, state-of-the-art entertainment and Icelandic cultural flavour are three of Icelandair’s guiding lights for improving your in-flight experience in the year 2008.

From today, Icelandair passengers can check themselves in on the Internet for all flights from Iceland. The self check-in service is available up to 22 hours before departure on the icelandair.is website.

The most juicy Food & Fun festival ever is taking place in Reykjavík, Iceland from February 20th to the 25th. A star studded roundup of chefs from around the globe will prepare mouth-watering delicacies from fresh, local ingredients at fifteen of the best restaurants in the city.

Icelandair will shift the focus of its North-Atlantic operations next year. Scheduled flights to Toronto will start in May, while Baltimore will be taken out of the network this winter.

This year the use of the Icelandair self service kiosks in Keflavik has increased rapidly. Right now a third of passengers use one of the 18 self service kiosks to check-in.

To mark its seventieth anniversary, Icelandair has introduced one-way fares to Iceland from its three UK gateways. The airline offers up to 21 departures each week to Iceland from London Heathrow, Glasgow and Manchester, with one-way fares on sale now from £70* including taxes.

Icelandair Holidays (icelandair.co.uk) is offering savings of up to £120 per person on July city breaks booked online before 29th July. The ‘summer sizzler’ package costs from £319 per person, and includes return flights from Heathrow or Glasgow, taxes and two nights B&B accommodation at the four star Nordica Hotel.

Icelandair (Icelandair.co.uk) offers UK golfers the opportunity to tee off under the midnight sun this summer with a three night golf break in Iceland.

Icelandair (icelandair.co.uk) now offers a service from the UK to Halifax, Nova Scotia, having launched the seasonal route on 17th May. Return flights from Heathrow and Glasgow cost from £346 when booked online.

Icelandair (Icelandair.co.uk) has secured tickets for Bjork’s first solo concert in six years, and is offering UK fans the opportunity of experiencing the Icelandic icon live in Reykjavik on 9th April, ahead of her world tour and album release.

This summer, Icelandair introduces new flights allowing easy connections from London Heathrow or Glasgow to northern Iceland, with no need to change airports in Iceland.

Icelandair (icelandair.co.uk) has claimed a top spot in the annual Technology for Marketing (TFM) Awards, held in London on 6th February. The airline, which operates flights between 23 gateways in the UK, Europe, the USA and Canada*, was voted Best Website Design of the Year by the panel of six industry experts, and beat companies including Odeon and Orange to first place.

Fancy playing golf on a live volcano under the midnight sun? Then put the dates of the Icelandair Volcano Open, 5th-8th July 2007, in the diary.

Iceland is set to host two hot music festivals next year, the second Rite of Spring and the ninth Iceland Airwaves. Icelandair has just released exclusive online deals for UK music lovers.

What links a re-formed boy band with a Number 1 hit, a BAFTA-winning kids’ TV puppet series, and Clint Eastwood?