Turning up the heat for freezing Icelanders
Neo Air Charter and its customer Blue Water Shipping pulled out all the stops to deliver urgent heat pipes needed to repair Iceland’s critically important geothermal community heating infrastructure.
20,000 households on the Reykjanes Peninsula endured temperatures of -15° without heating, after repeated earthquakes caused eruptions of the Fagradalsfjall volcano, leading to lava flows that damaged the local underground heating pipe network which serves 10% of the country’s homes.
Blue Water Shipping of Billund, Denmark and Neo staff worked throughout a Sunday to locate and book a suitable aircraft - a Bluebird Airlines B737F - to operate the emergency flight from Cologne to Keflavik. Staff also arranged ground transport for the 90-minute journey from the pipe manufacturer to the departure airport, and the trucks were on-site and ready to load early the next day. (cj)