New seats – More comfort
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. Our first Boeing 757 equipped with
entirely new interiors is already flying with customers and before year’s
end the same will apply to our 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 our 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 our
aircraft this year. Our 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 our airplanes will be renamed with names of Icelandic volcanoes and on
the headrests of our 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 our aircraft as our
crews strive to make each flight the same quality experience, yet a little
different from the last.
 
All these changes aim at making Icelandair internationally competitive in
the 21st century yet distinctively an Icelandic experience.