title: Alfreð Elíasson
text: # Alfreð Elíasson
  
  Alfreð Elíasson (1920 - 1988) was an Icelandic businessman who founded and served as president of Loftleidir.
  
  Loftleiðir Icelandic Airlines was formed in 1944 with a single engine, three passenger plane of Stinson Reliant make, Loftleiðir grew to become one of the major carriers of the North Atlantic in the 1960s and early 1970s pioneering low-cost air travel over the Atlantic.
  
  He has had his story made into a documentary film called Alfred Eliasson & Loftleiðir Icelandic made in 2009 in Iceland, which tells the story of the airline and Alfred, narrated in Icelandic by Arnar Jónsson.
  
  