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Ísafjörður Airport

ICAO BIIS66.0581°N 23.1353°W2 m / 8 ftMedium airport
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Ísafjörður Airport (IATA: IFJ, ICAO: BIIS) is a medium airport in Ísafjörður, Westfjords, Iceland. It opened on 2 Oct 1960. It has one runway, 1,400 m (4,593 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Isavia. In 2025 it handled 28 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1960–1960
02 OCT 1960
OpenedÍsafjörður Airport opens.
From Wikidata and WikipediaEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
07/25062° / 242° · LIT
LENGTH1,400 m4,593 ftWIDTH42 m139 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2010–2025
43K
42K
40K
36K
35K
33K
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28K
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Routes

1 destinations · 1 country
50 km100 km150 km200 km50 mi100 miRKV · Reykjavík Domestic Airport · 222 km / 138 miRKVIFJ

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from IFJ. From the Wikipedia article “Ísafjörður Airport” (revision of 30 Aug 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers28K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,315of 3,974 · #479 Europe · #5 ISLongest runway1,400 m4,593 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=7,794of 29,823 · =1,028 Europe · #8 ISElevation2 m8 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=42,681of 43,341 · =5,763 Europe · =71 ISAgeOpened 19602026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=4,584of 15,079 · =929 Europe · #6 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

2 channels
ACCREYKJAVIK ACC119.700
AFISINFO118.800