Vaga Airport

Passengers by Vaga Airport 1962-1998

Far out in the North Atlantic, lie the Faroe Island. The vast sea around Faroe, provenly the world's cleanest ocean area, is of the reason why fishing is the main source of income to this highly modernised island community. The only daily travel connection with the outside world throughout the year is Vaga Airport. This link is vital to the Faroe economy. The Airport management is aware of the great importance of the airport nowand in the future and therefore closly follows developments in international air transportion, thus enabling itself to offer the sevice expcted of an international airport. So we extend to you the offer of making use of teh facilities you may require and will find at many times at this Airport in the midle of the Blue Ocean.

Vagar Airport was a military instalation, originaly built during the World War II. In the early '60s the need and the demand of the Faroe for civil avation greew to the point to making a modernistion of the runway a necessary and viable instalation to serve passenger trafic. Since 1963, when regular cilvil avation began, continous changes and improvments have been undertaken so at to keep the Airport abreast of aviation developments. Consequently today you may use a modern and advansed Airport when traverling to and from Faroe.

The Terminal at Vagar Airport houses the facilities that make up an international airport. At the Information Desk one gets an answar to every question, wheter regarding travel conection to the rest of the country, accommodation, excursions or other relevnat queries. The Air Compaines have service counters here. There is a Customs Office, a Bank Counter, and for refreshments of light, friendly Cafteria and a Kiosk serve kostomers in the terminal. In adition there is a Car Rental and a Giftshop(Príði). The children also have their own Play Corner. Last but not least the Airport staff are always at hand to secure first rate customer service.

Commercal and public communictions as well as trafic infrastucture are as highly decloped in Faroe as in any other technologically advanced country. Vagar Airport has the service facility requried for bussines relations with Faroe and overseas coroporations and companies. the staff on the Customs Department, Føroya Banki and the other service functions are well qualified and at hand to ensure high level service and assistance.

The Faroe traffic net is fully developed. Vagar Airport is part of it. Bus and ferry connections link the Airport with the rest of the country and makes it possible to travel between all towns and villages within the same day. In addition a helicopter service, based on Vagar Airport, connects peripheral settlements and islands. A road network with tunnels, interisland barriers and bridges make travel by private car convenient. It takes for instance an hour and a half by bus and ferry or 15 minutes by chopper to reach the hospital.

Atlantic Airways with its BAe 146 airplane and Bell 313 helicopter is based in Vager Airport. With Maersk Air's Boeng 737-500 and Icelandair's Fokker 50 these carrier companies together service the connections to Copenhagen, Billund, Reykjavík and Glasgow. Atlantic Airways and Maersk Air have daily departures and arrivals, while Icelandair has 2-3 flights per week. It takes app. 2 hours to fly to e.g Copenhagen. The Atlantic Airways helcopter services the islands both on a regluar and ad hoc (rental/emergency etc) basis. The Royal Danish Naval Inspection also used Vagar Airport as a fixed land base for its Lynx helicopters for its fishery surveillance, search and recue operations and hospital alo used by General Aviation.

The Faroe midsummer night is light as day. But the winter has long dark nights and short dusky days. Vagar Airport is equipped to service its normal functions under these difficult natural circumstances. Its technical facilities measure up to the standards required by ICAO and continuosly upgraded.

Safty is the key word in aviation - also at Vagar Airport. This demands much of our technical personel. This essential group of staff is qualified to meet all safetyrequriements. While new safty standards are continously imposed upon equipment, our employees are regulary going through training course to improve their skills at meetign new challanges. This technial unit, wich co-operates with other groups of personel at Vagar Airport is used safty takes top priority.

The Danish Civil Aviation Administration operates and manages Vagar Airport. The Airport, wich complies with ICAO regulations of the day, is under the surveillance of the Danish Civil Aviation Authorities. The runway is 1250m. long and 30 m. wide is aquipped as a non-precision approach runway with ICAO code destination "3". This means that the runway is equipped with an instrument landing system, wich supply information on approach courses to the landing strip, and that the runway is between 1200 and 1800 m. long.

International communications demand more and more of its executors. Vagar Airport is an increasingly important link in and out of Faroe. One basic requirement for this is perennial and daily flights. In spite of Famously changeble weather out in the North Atlantic, Vagar Airport boasts a regularity which compares favorably with other by i.a the top notch technological equipment for e.g. approach and landing, snow clearing ect. avaible at Vagar Airport.