News from Air Iceland Connect

Connecting the dots

There’s always something happening at Air Iceland Connect and the airline’s destinations. Here’s a roundup of some of the most newsworthy events.

TEXT: Eyglo Svala Arnarsdottir

New consul in Greenland Sales executive recruited in Nuuk

Skafti Jonsson took over as the Consul General of Iceland in Nuuk, Greenland on 1 November. Skafti’s last position was as Cultural Representative at the Icelandic Foreign Ministry and he has also worked at the Icelandic embassies in Norway, Malawi and the US. In 2014–2015, Skafti was on leave from the Foreign Ministry, during which he worked for the United Nations in Palestine.

Skafti’s predecessor, Petur Asgeirsson, has now become the Icelandic Ambassador in Canada. Petur was Iceland’s first Consul General in Greenland and he worked as such for four years. In that time, he developed a network of contacts throughout Greenland, which will continue to benefit the consulate. Air Iceland Connect hired in January its first employee in Greenland, Anika Krogh, who works as a sales executive, based in Nuuk. She has 15 years of experience from the aviation industry, sales, marketing and tourism, and is the co-owner of Arctic-Nomad, which runs a luxury camp for tourists in the Nuuk Fjord.

Anika grew up in Alluitsoq in South Greenland, a village with only 21 inhabitants. She has lived in Nuuk for most of her adult life, apart from a few years of studying in Denmark and one year working in Gambia. Anika, who is married with three children, loves being outside in nature and in her spare time, she enjoys guiding tourists as a captain on open boat trips.

“The world is waiting for you”

Representatives of Air Iceland Connect set up camp in Nuuk Center shopping mall on 17 February to introduce the airline’s tours and destinations to Greenlanders. Through collaboration with Icelandair and VITA Travel and with a stopover in Iceland, connections are available to numerous international destinations, or “One stop – and the world is waiting for you”, as the slogan goes.

Nuuk Center was crowded and quite a few shoppers stopped by the Air Iceland Connect stand, received information about the airline’s operations, had their picture taken and participated in a quiz. The winner, Parnuna M. Olsen (pictured), won a trip to Alicante, Spain. Congratulations!

Fast facts

about Air Iceland Connect

183,301

passengers travelled through Akureyri Airport and 93,474 through Egilsstadir in 2016

3,000

international flights from Reykjavik, 444 from Akureyri and 159 from Egilsstadir in 2016

45

places for lift-off and landing in Iceland; 6 are paved, 22 have gravel and 4 are on grass

234,476,186 km

(145,696,747 mi) were flown within Icelandic airspace in 2016