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1955
1955 - 0210.PDF
Iceland's Airline (Left) Latest addition to Iceland Airways' fleet is this brightly markedDC-4, TF-IST "Solfaxi." One of the company's two Catalina flying-boats is seen above at its moorings in Siglufjord, Northern Iceland. Snow-clad mountains form the accepted background to this study of DC-3 TF-ISB at Akureyri, Northern Iceland. The same aircraft is seen below in flight over Reykjavik, the capital. Last year the airline carried 54,000 passengers—28 per cent more than in 1953. CUBJECT to the approval of the governments concerned, ^ Iceland Airways (Flugfelag Islands H.F.) will operate a greatly increased schedule of international passenger services from May 1st this year. There will be two services each week to the United Kingdom,instead of one, on the routes Reykjavik-Glasgow-London and Reykjavik-Glasgow-Copenhagen. This represents a major change,as the airline has used Prestwick since it started flying to Scotland nine years ago. The decision to switch to Renfrew—at least duringthe summer months—follows recent improvements at this airport. Similarly, there will be twice as many services to Scandinaviaas in previous years, with a weekly flight between Reykjavik, Oslo and Stockholm, and three services each week to Copenhagen—-onedirect, one via Glasgow and a third via Bergen in Norway. Neither Bergen nor Stockholm has previously been served by this airline.Western Germany also will be linked with Iceland for the first time, with a weekly flight to Hamburg, via Copenhagen, andanother to Frankfurt. To make possible this expansion of their services, Iceland Air-ways have bought a second Skymaster from Fred Olsen of Norway, to supplement the well-known DC-4 "Gullfaxi." After beingrefurnished at Kasirup Airport, the new machine arrived at Reyk- javik from Copenhagen last month. The Icelandic Minister ofCommunications made a speech, and the Skymaster was christened "Sqlfaxi" (Sun-horse). This follows the airline's practice of givingall its aircraft names ending with "faxi"—the local name for the Icelandic ponies which were almost the only means of transportin the country until a few decades ago. Iceland Airways also added a DC-3 to their fleet last year, andnow operate two Skymasters, four DC-3s, two Catalinas and a Grumman Goose. The staff totals only 150, including those inoffices in London, Copenhagen and Oslo.
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