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The Icelandic travel industry is stable and its future is strong, especially now that it has become more affordable to travel to Iceland after the decrease in the value of the Icelandic krona.

The Icelandic airlines insure safe and regular transportation to and from Iceland from both Europe and North America.

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Icelandic budget airline, Iceland Express has launched a campaign called “Colourful Reykjavik” aimed at making visits to Iceland a balance of city chic and country curiosity.

Iceland Express’s new “Colourful Reykjavik” campaign is designed to help potential visitors see how exciting Reykjavik is as a city break destination. With its excellent shopping and its pretty wooden old-town to its huge art scene and its geothermal pools, Reykjavik is a formidable match for cities many times bigger.

Tourists have always visited Iceland to marvel at its spectacular scenery and natural phenomena, so Iceland Express has put together several four-day (three-night) packages to help visitors make the best of both worlds.

The Reykjavik Buzz Tour is a great taster of Reykjavik culture mixed with a look at some of the surrounding countryside, including the famous Golden Circle tour and the Blue Lagoon.

The Landscapes and Lagoons tour has a little bit of everything. The trip comprises a good gulp of Reykjavik culture, the Golden Circle and the Blue Lagoon – with the additional thrill of horse riding thrown in. Iceland Express insists that you don’t even need to have ever been near a horse before to enjoy the trek.

The other Iceland Express tour is called The Great Escape. The Grand Daddy of the three. Basically as above; but crucially airport transfers are by car, not coach. The Golden Circle tour is in an exciting super jeep and includes a trip to the Langjokull glacier with an optional snow mobile tour.

Iceland Express is the low cost airline connecting Iceland with 19 top European destinations. In its five years of operation, Iceland Express has helped increase visitor numbers to Iceland dramatically.

Iceland Express has no length-of-stay restrictions, no Sunday rule, easy online booking and offers a 50% discount for children under 12 years of age. The airline recently won Best Website Award at the World Low Cost Airline Awards.

For reservations and further information, go to www.icelandexpress.com.

Britain’s best-selling newspaper, The Sun has published an extensive travel review on Iceland. Reykjavik Jazz Festival is the main attraction, but there’s plenty more to it than that!

Iceland received a resounding thumbs-up from Zoe Street Howe writing recently in The Sun newspaper. She visited the country for the Reykjavik Jazz Festival in the last week of August this year.

“Iceland’s capital is as vibrant as it is relaxing, and with just 310,000 people in the whole country, the sense of space is something we Brits aren’t necessarily used to, particularly in the big city,” the article says.

In addition to the pleasures of whale watching, the Blue Lagoon and horse riding, the writer also enthuses about Icelandic skyr yoghurt and the ubiquitous coffee and waffles with jam and cream.

What’s more, with the recent drop in the Icelandic krona, a cheap holiday to Iceland is no longer an oxymoron – Iceland has never been cheaper for British tourists to visit.

“Every day started with a stunning view of Mount Esja across the bay from our stylish hotel and a self-service sumptuous breakfast,” The Sun reports. “This included waffles (of course) and the Icelandic staple Skyr.”

The Sun article raves about the high quality of performers at the jazz festival, but Reykjavik itself also impressed. “The gorgeous city of Reykjavik is quite small, cool but laid-back, and we could have happily sat in the spacious but cosy non-profit Cafe Rot playing chess, or maybe do a spot of posing in the rock ‘n’ roll Kaffibarinn.”

“Budget deals to Iceland are often available through Iceland Express, (and) the flight takes three hours,” Howe says. Iceland Express is the budget airline connecting Reykjavik with 19 top European cities. For further information on Iceland Express, or to book cheap flights to Iceland, visit www.icelandexpress.com.

The Icelandic budget airline, Iceland Express has announced its new summer schedule for 2009. The new timetable sees the airline increase its destination list to include 19 of Europe’s top cities.

The low cost airline connecting Reykjavik with top European destinations, Iceland Express has announced details of its 2009 summer timetable. Iceland Express passengers are now able to book cheap flights to Iceland from new destinations such as Cyprus, Geneva and Krakow.

A total of 19 cities will be served by Iceland Express flights from 1 June to 31 August 2009. The airline’s popular Copenhagen route will have 12 flights per week from Reykjavik Keflavik as well as two from the northern town of Akureyri.

Iceland Express’s operations to and from London will be concentrated on London Gatwick beginning in spring 2009. Altogether there will be ten flights per week to London.

Iceland Express’s summer 2009 destinations are: Aalborg, Alicante, Barcelona, Basel, Berlin, Billund, Bologna, Copenhagen, Cyprus, Eindhoven, Frankfurt Hahn, Friedrichshafen, Gothenburg, Geneva, Krakow, London, Paris, Stockholm and Warsaw.

Iceland Express celebrates its fifth anniversary this year. The airline began offering budget flights to Iceland in 2003 and tourism to Iceland has increased 150 percent since that time, due in no small part to the higher number of flights and lower fares Iceland Express brought about. Iceland Express puts its continuing success down to the company’s innovative outlook, simple fare structure and excellent customer service.

Iceland Express is the low cost airline offering cheap flights to Iceland from 19 top European cities. The airline has no length-of-stay restrictions, no Sunday rule, easy online booking and e-ticketing. For more information, visit www.icelandexpress.com.

Reykjavik International Film Festival will bring the best of global cinema to Iceland again between 25 September and 4 October.

The festival season might be drawing to a close in the UK but it’s only just begun in the hip, Icelandic capital of Reykjavik.

As the city prepares for one of its festival highlights of the year, the national low-cost carrier, Iceland Express presents unbeatable fares from GBP 69 per person, making September the month for a Reykjavik city break.

The colourful and vibrant city of Reykjavik is a major magnet attracting visitors looking for a chic city break. Its night-life, shopping, dining and culture are legendary and the city is also a great base from which to explore the country’s thermal pools, mountains, glaciers and, of course, the famous Blue Lagoon.

Another draw for culture vultures visiting in September is the Reykjavik International Film Festival (RIFF). The event, which is in its fifth year, runs from 25 September – 5 October 2008. More than 100 films will be screened during the 11-day cinematic celebration, which culminates in a ‘New Visions’ competition that gives unknown filmmakers the chance to shine.

In previous years the festival has attracted crowds of more than 20,000 and has been attended by big-name filmmakers including Peter Greenaway (‘The Draughtsman’s Contract’, 1982 and ‘The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover’, 1989), Atom Egoyan (‘Where the Truth Lies’, 2005), Aki Kaurismaki (‘The Man without a Past’, 2002) and Guy Maddin (‘Archangel’, 1990).

Iceland Express is Iceland’s low-fare airline connecting the Icelandic capital of Reykjavík with 14 airports in Europe. Flights with Iceland Express start from just GBP 69 each way, including taxes and are daily between London Stansted and Reykjavik. A new service between London Gatwick and Reykjavik will be launched in spring 2009. For reservations go to www.icelandexpress.com

Icelandic budget airline Iceland Express has been shortlisted in a competition for the best website on behalf of the world’s low cost airline industry, announced the Budgies.

The other two airlines that Iceland Express is up against are SkyEurope and Germanwings. Over 200 airlines are competing in different categories.

The Budgies have been created to honour and generate public recognition of the efforts, accomplishments, and positive contributions of companies and individuals in the low cost airline industry.

The winner will receive the award at a two day conference – The World Low Cost Airlines Congress – which is taking place on 23rd September and will be accompanied by various workshops led by experts from different airlines.

Iceland Express is the only low-cost airline operating flights to Iceland and has been in operation since 2003. Five years later, the company offers flights to Iceland from 14 destinations around Europe, including Copenhagen, London and Paris.

Visit the Iceland Express website to book cheap flights to Reykjavik, Iceland.

Budget airline Iceland Express is sponsoring a monumental project to reassemble one of Reykjavik’s best-loved cultural institutions at the Frieze Art Fair in London.

Sirkus was a tiny ramshackle shed of a bar. It had a unique odour, was often overcrowded and was kitted out with the strangest collection of fittings and furnishings since Fifth Cousin Donald passed away and left you his First World War trench mop collection and his favourite stuffed emu.

The house itself was decorated by two large puffins and had the word ‘Sirkus’ on top in big light-bulb-covered letters—most of which never worked. It had a unique odour, was often overcrowded and was kitted out with the strangest collection of fittings and furnishings since Gertrude – one of those “family friends” you were always forced to call Auntie against your will – passed away and left you her wicker owls and gold-plated dentures.

Despite, or possibly because of, its many flaws, Sirkus was the premier drinking venue of almost everyone who makes Reykjavik life so vibrant, fun and creative. Bjork even shot a video in there.

As the days tick down to the building’s total destruction, the hardcore Sirkus devotees still hope for a miracle reopening. It ain’t gonna happen, but a collective of Icelandic artists, Kling og Bang, is trying to do the next-best-thing.

Kling og Bang will pay tribute to Sirkus, the Reykjavik bar, landmark, and hub of the alternative arts scene, by saving its facade and interior and re-erecting it at the Frieze Art Fair – “like a circus moving to another town”, the event’s website states. “A zany nomadic act reflecting the drive of Icelandic art, producing a situation of one circus within another for artists to respond to.”

The Frieze Art Fair happens each autumn in London’s Regent’s Park and has become one of the biggest contemporary art events in Europe. This year’s fair is from 16th to 19th October and around 30,000-40,000 people are expected to attend on each of the four days.

The Sirkus project will generate huge attention for Icelandic art – both in Iceland and abroad – and Iceland Express have decided to sponsor the project with 90,000 kroner worth of flight credits.

Iceland Express is a budget airline offering cheap flights to Reykjavik from 14 other major European cities.

Visit the Iceland Express website for more information or to book cheap flights to Iceland.

The quick thinking of Iceland Express staff saved the life of a 30 year-old woman who recently lost consciousness on the way from Barcelona to Reykjavik, reports Icelandic newspaper 24 Stundir.

The woman fell ill 45 minutes after takeoff with an irregular heartbeat and difficulty breathing.

“The crew began by asking if there was a doctor onboard, and then considering the woman’s condition, it was decided to land the plane as quickly as possible,” the captain said. Out of respect for his colleagues, the captain requested his name not be published.

It was thought the woman was suffering a very serious asthma attack, but had forgotten to take her asthma medicine with her onboard. The crew gave her oxygen and asthma medicine from the plane’s emergency kit, but without success.

The pilots decided to land the plane in Basel, Switzerland. The woman spent a day and a half in hospital before continuing to Iceland where she is visiting relatives.

Doctors informed her that she could have died of a lack of oxygen if not for the quick thinking of the Icelandic budget airline ’s crewmembers.

The captain said the landing in Basel went well, but added that when a plane has spent only a short period of time in the air and is still full of fuel, it can be very difficult to land. For that reason, the pilots had to burn off fuel as quickly as possible before landing, including flying with the landing gear down to reduce aerodynamic efficiency.

The captain also said that once or twice a year he is required to perform an early landing due to a passenger falling ill. “I didn’t do anything heroic,” he said. “This is just a part of our job, and we are trained to deal with difficult situations.”

Due to health and safety regulations, the crew were not allowed to carry on with the flight, and “as there were no other Iceland Express crews at the airport at the time, the passengers were put up in a hotel overnight,” said Iceland Express media representative Lara Omarsdottir. She said the other passengers on board were very understanding and were able to continue their journey they next day.

Iceland Express is the low cost airline providing cheap flights to Iceland from 14 of Europe’s top destinations. For more information, go to www.icelandexpress.com

The Icelandic budget airline Iceland Express has announced details of its end of summer sale.

Iceland Express today revealed details of its end of summer sale, offering travellers to Iceland incredibly low fares for a limited time only.

Flights will cost as little as EUR 70, GBP 56 or DKK 535, including taxes and fees, to Iceland (and back if you want) from Barcelona, Berlin, Billund, Copenhagen, Eindhoven, Frankfurt Hahn, London, and Paris.

Flights must be taken between 18 August and 15 September 2008 and bookings must be made online either today or tomorrow (Tuesday 19 August).

The airline points out that the offer is first-come-first-served and that there is limited availability.

Iceland Express is Iceland’s low-cost airline and has been operational since 2003. Five years later, the successful business now offers flights to Iceland from 14 destinations around Europe.

Iceland Express has plans to begin operating two new, more environmentally-friendly Boeing 737-700s in September and begin a new route to London Gatwick in spring 2009.

To book cheap flights to Iceland, or for more information on Iceland’s low-cost airline, take a look at www.icelandexpress.com

Icelandic budget airline Iceland Express has announced the introduction of two fuel-efficient Boeing aircraft to its service, as well as flights to London Gatwick from spring 2009.

Iceland Express has announced changes to its upcoming winter timetable, which includes a delay in the introduction of the low cost airline’s new five-times-weekly service connecting Reykjavik and London Gatwick.

Birna Gudmundsdottir, marketing manager for Iceland Express, said: “We have decided to move the launch of this exciting new service to the spring as it is the peak travel season for Iceland. While the number of bookings has never been higher for Iceland Express, we do not want the current increase in fuel costs to impact on the ticket prices for our customers”.

The low cost flights to Iceland from Gatwick will be in addition to Iceland Express’s popular daily service from Stansted, which will continue as usual.

“We have wanted to expand into Gatwick for some time and the decision by British Airways to suspend its services to Reykjavik earlier this year means that the time is now right to do so,” Gudmundsdottir said this spring. The time of the launch may now have changed, but the sentiment has not.

“Iceland Express is remaining cautious in the current uncertain economic climate, while continuing to deliver the best possible service at the best possible price. Iceland Express is a budget airline and we want to ensure it stays that way.”

The Icelandic budget airline also announced recently that it will be introducing two Boeing 737-700s from September. The aircraft are more environmentally-friendly and will result in up to a 40 percent reduction in fuel costs for Iceland Express.

Launched in 2003, Iceland Express is Iceland’s low-fare airline connecting the Icelandic capital of Reykjavik with 14 airports in Europe: Copenhagen, London, Alicante, Basel, Berlin, Billund, Eindhoven, Frankfurt Hahn, Friedrichshafen, Gothenburg, Paris, Stockholm, Barcelona and Warsaw.

For more information on Iceland Express or to book flights online, go to www.icelandexpress.com.