Iceland’s low-cost carrier, Iceland Express, will offer a new service between Winnipeg, Manitoba, and London-Gatwick via Reykjavik this summer.
It starts June 12 and tickets are expected to cost £467 return ($700 CDN).
Iceland Express will also offer new services from London Gatwick to New York and Akureyri.
The UK’s second-city, Birmingham, will also have flights to Reykjavik.
The Winnipeg route is one of significance due to the number of Icelanders and Icelandic descendants living in the area.
Iceland Express web site.

In the second and final part of our interview with Jackson Crawford, Iceland News moves away from Star Wars to find out more about Crawford’s background. READ PART ONE HERE.
Saunders: How did you come to settle on Icelandic and Old Norse as an area of study?
Crawford: Well, I could tell that in a pretty long story, and I’m not sure how long of a story you want. I’ll try to keep it short. I was a dinosaur kid, interested especially in how dinosaurs evolved. When it came time to decide …

There’s an Icelandic version of Google Maps available which is so much better.
It’s part of ja.is and is at http://en.ja.is/kort/.

Great for planning those long Icelandic road trips around route one.
Don’t speak the language? Don’t worry. There’s an English language version.
As it pops up from time to time, here’s further information on the physical Icelandic phonebook.