Entrepreneur Skúli Mogensen is selling bargain flights from Europe routed via Reykjavik. But is the deal as salubrious as it seems?Iceland has not always been kind to people wishing to fly,or even those searching for the best online deal. Savers attracted by tall interest rates had billions in their Icesave bank accounts temporarily frozen in 2008. Two years later, ash spewed by the Eyjafjallajkull volcano grounded planes across Europe for a week.
So an Icelandic tech tycoon promising to fly bargain-hunting Brits to the US for £99 one-way on his upstart airline might ring a few alarm bells.
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Source: theguardian.com