N\u00fdr forstj\u00f3ri Samskipa, Birkir H\u00f3lm Gu\u00f0nason segist spenntur fyrir a\u00f0 starfa \u00e1 n\u00fdjum vettvangi en s\u00ed\u00f0ustu 10 \u00e1r \u00e1 undan hefur hann veri\u00f0 framkv\u00e6mdastj\u00f3ri Icelandair.<\/p>\n
\u201eEftir 18 \u00e1r hj\u00e1 Icelandair langa\u00f0i mig a\u00f0 breyta til, en \u00fea\u00f0 m\u00e1 segja a\u00f0 \u00e9g s\u00e9 enn \u00e1 \u00feessum al\u00fej\u00f3\u00f0lega marka\u00f0i \u00fear sem Samskip er hluti af st\u00f3rri heild me\u00f0 flutningskerfi sem n\u00e6r \u00fat um allan heim,\u201c segir Birkir en um \u00feessar mundir er fyrirt\u00e6ki\u00f0 a\u00f0 taka n\u00fdtt siglingakerfi \u00ed notkun.<\/p>\n
\u201e\u00dea\u00f0 mun hj\u00e1lpa miki\u00f0 vi\u00f0 a\u00f0 sinna \u00edslenska marka\u00f0num enn betur me\u00f0 g\u00f3\u00f0ri \u00fej\u00f3nustu vi\u00f0 b\u00e6\u00f0i \u00fatflytjendur og innflytjendur \u00e1 v\u00f6rum. Me\u00f0 breytingunum, sem fela \u00ed s\u00e9r a\u00f0 vi\u00f0 erum a\u00f0 st\u00f3rauka flutningsgetu f\u00e9lagsins, b\u00e6tast vi\u00f0 n\u00fdir valm\u00f6guleikar fyrir vi\u00f0skiptavini f\u00e9lagsins. Vi\u00f0 \u00e6tlum okkur a\u00f0 spila \u00f6flugan s\u00f3knarbolta og auka marka\u00f0shlutdeild Samskipa.\u201c<\/p>\n
Birkir er giftur Fr\u00ed\u00f0u D\u00f3ru Steind\u00f3rsd\u00f3ttur hj\u00fakrunarfr\u00e6\u00f0ingi og flugfreyju og eiga \u00feau saman fj\u00f6gur b\u00f6rn. \u201eB\u00f6rnin eru 8, 12, 15 og 18 \u00e1ra g\u00f6mul, tv\u00e6r stelpur og tveir str\u00e1kar. \u00c9g held \u00feetta s\u00e9 alveg n\u00f3g, \u00feegar \u00fe\u00fa ert b\u00fainn a\u00f0 fylla sex s\u00e6ti, heila r\u00f6\u00f0 \u00ed flugv\u00e9l. Svo erum vi\u00f0 me\u00f0 tvo hunda \u00feannig a\u00f0 \u00fea\u00f0 er miki\u00f0 l\u00edf \u00e1 heimilinu,\u201c segir Birkir sem reynir a\u00f0 ey\u00f0a fr\u00edt\u00edmanum sem mest me\u00f0 fj\u00f6lskyldunni.<\/p>\n
\u201e\u00deess utan eru \u00e1hugam\u00e1lin bara \u00feessi klass\u00edsku, \u00e9g reyni a\u00f0 fara \u00ed golf og laxvei\u00f0i \u00feegar \u00e9g get. Svo fer\u00f0umst vi\u00f0 saman, b\u00e6\u00f0i til \u00fatlanda, en einnig f\u00f6rum vi\u00f0 miki\u00f0 nor\u00f0ur \u00fear sem \u00e9g er alinn upp. B\u00f6rnin elska Akureyri. \u00c1 seinni \u00e1rum hef \u00e9g meira veri\u00f0 a\u00f0 fara t\u00f6luvert \u00e1 sk\u00ed\u00f0i en \u00fea\u00f0 var minna um \u00fea\u00f0 \u00feegar \u00e9g var a\u00f0 alast upp. Loks byrja\u00f0i \u00e9g a\u00f0eins \u00ed vor a\u00f0 fara \u00ed fjallg\u00f6ngur, en \u00e9g er eiginlega bara a\u00f0 labba Helgafelli\u00f0, er b\u00fainn a\u00f0 fara einhverjar 10 fer\u00f0ir \u00feanga\u00f0 \u00ed sumar. \u00c9g l\u00edt \u00e1 \u00feetta sem \u00e6fingab\u00fa\u00f0ir \u00e1\u00f0ur en \u00e9g fer \u00ed lengri fer\u00f0ir.\u201c<\/p>\n
Birkir bj\u00f3 \u00ed fimm \u00e1r \u00ed Danm\u00f6rku \u00e1 n\u00e1ms\u00e1runum, en flj\u00f3tlega eftir a\u00f0 hann h\u00f3f st\u00f6rf fyrir Icelandair a\u00f0 n\u00e1mi loknu var hann be\u00f0inn um a\u00f0 fara til Bandar\u00edkjanna \u00fear sem hann var sv\u00e6\u00f0isstj\u00f3ri fyrir Nor\u00f0ur Amer\u00edku.<\/p>\n
\u201eVi\u00f0 vorum \u00fear \u00ed \u00ferj\u00fa \u00e1r og l\u00edka\u00f0i okkur mj\u00f6g vel, s\u00ed\u00f0an f\u00f3rum vi\u00f0 til \u00de\u00fdskalands og \u00fea\u00f0 var miki\u00f0 sjokk a\u00f0 venjast \u00fev\u00ed a\u00f0 \u00fear voru allar helstu verslanir ekki opnar \u00e1 sunnud\u00f6gum me\u00f0an h\u00e6gt var a\u00f0 versla alla \u00fej\u00f3nustu sem \u00fe\u00fa vildir \u00ed Bandar\u00edkjunum allan s\u00f3larhringinn.\u201c<\/p>\n
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Birtist \u00ed Vi\u00f0skiptabla\u00f0inu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
N\u00fdr forstj\u00f3ri Samskipa, Birkir H\u00f3lm Gu\u00f0nason segist spenntur fyrir a\u00f0 starfa \u00e1 n\u00fdjum vettvangi en s\u00ed\u00f0ustu 10 \u00e1r \u00e1 undan hefur hann veri\u00f0 framkv\u00e6mdastj\u00f3ri Icelandair. \u201eEftir 18 \u00e1r hj\u00e1 Icelandair […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":1239843670,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218373765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samskip.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218373765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samskip.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samskip.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samskip.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samskip.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218373765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samskip.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218373765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samskip.is\/en\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samskip.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218373765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samskip.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218373765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samskip.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218373765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}