Iceland Air 1
Birkir Holm Gudnason is former CEO of Iceland Air. In 2008 and 2009 his company experienced its biggest crisis when the major Icelandic banks collapsed leading to a dramatic deterioration in the economy. The result was a lot of passengers cancelling their trips to Iceland and a significant drop in revenues and business. As a company, Iceland Air had to figure out what to do. Visit casenet.ca for more free, open access decision focused video teaching cases from Acadia University.
Interviewee
Birkir Holm Gudnason
Company
Industry
Business Activity
Icelandair
Airline
Transportation and Storage
Headquarters
Reykjavik, Iceland
Size
Medium
Employees
500 to 10,000
Greater than $25 million
Yearly Revenue
Private Company
Type of Entity
Subject
Turnaround
Level of Difficulty
Easy
Teaching Objectives
Learn about airline industry
Keywords
Turnaround
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