Myflug Air, an Icelandic charter, sightseeing and air ambulance company owned by 30 shareholders, is deciding how best to fully deploy a versatile new fleet addition, a CE208B.

Operations manager Leifur Hallgrimsson says: "This particular Cessna enjoys the advantage of floats and is unique in Iceland so we are considering carefully how we can employ it to its best advantage."

The company even looked seriously at an option to base the CE208B in Dubai for sightseeing before deciding that it should be kept for use in Iceland.

The CE208B, acquired last year, joins a fleet carefully built up and renewed since the company launched 20 years ago.

Myflug operates three aircraft for charter and sightseeing, a Piper Chieftain (10 seats) and two Cessna 206 (six seats). The company was launched in 1985 with one Cessna Skyhawk to provide sightseeing services and, despite diversification, this is still an important source of business.

Hallgrimsson says: "Charter flights are operated year round, on request and then there are sightseeing

flights which are mainly seasonal. There is also a strong growth in tourism in Iceland and we need to address the company's widening focus as it develops."

But air ambulance work is the most important source of income and, following an initial "wet lease" of a second Super King Air 200, Myflug reached an agreement for purchase. This addition will also be used for growing air ambulance work throughout most of Iceland.

"We are going to sell our Chieftain," says Hallgrimsson.

Myflug has a government contract to provide aircraft wholly dedicated to specialised air ambulance service run from Akureyri airport.

Its sightseeing charters, usually starting at Myvatn, take in destinations including Krafla, Askja, Dyngjujokull, Kverkfjoll, Herdubreid, Dettifoss, Jokulsargbljufur and Asbyrgi. But Hallgrimsson says: "We modify tours to meet needs and can made a pickup in one place and a drop off in another.