Icelandair captain takes pax on a volcano sightseeing tour
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Both Icelandair and Air Iceland are part of the Icelandair group. The twitter account belongs to the parent company, thus the article (and the tweet) are correct.
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Both Icelandair and Air Iceland are part of the Icelandair group. The twitter account belongs to the parent company, thus the article (and the tweet) are correct.
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Icelandair Group, the parent company, has a number of different businesses which include Air Iceland, Loftleidir Icelandic, Icelandair Hotels, and others:
http://www.icelandairgroup.com/businesses/
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This was the only time I've had the opportunity to do a bit of aerial sightseeing from a jetliner.
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Fokker 50 or Dash 8
My thought as well....and when I saw the photo, I thought it was actually taken from a high wing aircraft, probably a turboprop. BTW, I have an airline industry background which includes a management position with an ATR-42 operator in Hawaii.
Icelandair does not operate turboprops, only 752s and 753s.......however, Air Iceland does operate propjets, specifically the Dash 8 and Fokker 50 primarily on local service routes on the island. Both are high wing aircraft.
So I'm thinking that Icelandair is not really the air carrier involved here and it was actually Air Iceland.
Of course, this would not be the first time the news media got the facts wrong.......
Icelandair does not operate turboprops, only 752s and 753s.......however, Air Iceland does operate propjets, specifically the Dash 8 and Fokker 50 primarily on local service routes on the island. Both are high wing aircraft.
So I'm thinking that Icelandair is not really the air carrier involved here and it was actually Air Iceland.
Of course, this would not be the first time the news media got the facts wrong.......