The head of the organisation which runs Iceland’s airports says that increased safety requirements will quite likely lead to two or three domestic flight destinations being cancelled and the number of flights to others decreasing. Read the full story

Around 21,000 foreign tourists left Iceland through Keflavík International Airport in December; which is about 11 percent more than in December 2010. Read the full story

Passengers on a domestic flight in Denmark have criticised the behaviour of the “panicked” cabin crew after they were forced into an emergency landing when an engine caught fire. Read the full story

There were three aviation incidents in Iceland yesterday which kept emergency co-ordinators busy. Luckily nobody was hurt. Read the full story

A new report published in the Journal of Geology claims that a volcanic ash cloud similar to the 2010 Eyjafjallajokull eruption is unlikely to cause chaos in Europe again ‘in our lifetimes’ — if the last 7,000 years of history are a good guide. Read the full story

Iceland, like many other countries, is watching the rioting in London and elsewhere in England closely; with the same sort of  incredulity as most British people are. So far, however, the situation has not stopped Icelanders travelling to the UK. Read the full story

Threatened strikes, which were set to begin at Finland’s airports on yesterday morning, have been averted in a last-minute deal between the two sides. Read the full story

Keflavik International Airport in Iceland was evacuated yesterday afternoon due to smoke from an electrical fire. Read the full story

Both the Icelandic finance minister and the foreign minister have said they may be willing to support the interior minister’s idea of asking the public to decide the future of Reykjavik’s downtown domestic airport in a referendum. Read the full story

Finnish air traffic controllers have warned that they could begin strikes this month over a dispute about pay and working conditions. Read the full story