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Icelandic culture, comfort and service

14th May 2008 Print
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.

Icelandair’s first Boeing 757 equipped with entirely new interiors is already flying with customers and before year’s end the same will apply to the entire fleet of aircraft.

A part of the improvements include stronger, more comfortable and spacious leather seats. Icelandair’s new seats come from Aviointerios, featuring the Andromeda and Centaurus models. The seats are produced in Italy with the latest technology. Each of the upgraded planes will have one less row of seats onboard giving our customers an extended leg space of 3-5 centimeters.

Personal entertainment – More service

All customers will be enjoying a broad selection of new movies, TV programs, music, books, e-magazines and games at their fingertips in 2008. The new in-flight entertainment system being installed on Icelandair’s fleet, the Thales IFE i4500, gives every customer access to a personal computer screen and control panel where they are offered a wide selection of entertainment options. The system offers users the opportunity to monitor the flight and for the brave ones, even learn Icelandic.

Icelandic culture, landscape and history

Icelandic culture, customs and history will be more visible onboard the aircraft this year. Icelandair crews will receive new uniforms in the summer created by Icelandic award winning designer Steinunn Sigurðardóttir. The uniforms will have references to traditional Icelandic clothing and the country’s landscape.

All airplanes will be renamed with names of Icelandic volcanoes and on the headrests of the seats onboard will be little bits and pieces of the ancient Icelandic sagas. A new onboard service video is packed with relaxing native bird sounds, a new music score specially composed for Icelandair as well as simple images of familiar patterns in the Icelandic landscape including traditional Icelandic houses and farm animals.

Chocolate Easter eggs and other small seasonal surprises related to Icelandic customs have even started showing up onboard aircraft as crews strive to make each flight the same quality experience, yet a little different from the last.

All these changes are aimed at making Icelandair internationally competitive in the 21st century yet remaining a distinctively Icelandic experience.