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Akureyri International Airport

ICAO BIAR65.6566°N 18.0720°W2 m / 6 ftLarge airport
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Akureyri International Airport (IATA: AEY, ICAO: BIAR) is a large airport in Akureyri, Northeastern Region, Iceland. It has one runway, 2,700 m (8,858 ft) long, asphalt. In 2025 it handled 216 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
01/19356° / 176° · LIT
LENGTH2,700 m8,858 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2014–2025
177K
177K
189K
206K
198K
182K
81K
140K
194K
195K
205K
216K
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Routes

7 destinations · 4 countries
Most destinationsNorlandair 4easyJet 2Edelweiss Air 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from AEY. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Akureyri Airport” (revision of 30 Aug 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers216K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,502of 3,974 · #327 Europe · #3 ISLongest runway2,700 m8,858 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=1,894of 29,823 · =288 Europe · #2 ISElevation2 m6 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=42,900of 43,341 · =5,806 Europe · #74 ISRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =643 Europe · =9 IS
Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

3 channels
ACCREYKJAVIK ACC119.700
RDRRADAR118.700
TWRTWR118.200