Vágar Airport

ICAO EKVG62.0633°N 7.2758°W85 m / 280 ftLarge airport

Vágar Airport (IATA: FAE, ICAO: EKVG) is a large airport in Vágar, Faroe Islands. It opened in 1942. It has one runway, 1,800 m (5,905 ft) long, asphalt. In 2021 it handled 239 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1942–1942

1942

OpenedVágar Airport opens.

From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

12/30118° / 298° · LIT

LENGTH1,800 m5,905 ftWIDTH30 m98 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2009–2021

204K

200K

203K

226K

236K

250K

276K

292K

341K

378K

424K

239K

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Routes

12 destinations · 6 countries

Year-round5

BGOBergen Airport, FleslandNorway · Widerøe697 km433 mi KEFKeflavik International AirportIceland · Atlantic Airways, Icelandair800 km497 mi OSLOslo-Gardermoen International AirportNorway · Atlantic Airways1,005 km624 mi BLLBillund AirportDenmark · Atlantic Airways1,171 km728 mi CPHCopenhagen Kastrup AirportDenmark · Atlantic Airways1,344 km835 mi

Seasonal8

EDIEdinburgh AirportUnited Kingdom · Atlantic Airways715 km444 mi AALAalborg AirportDenmark · Atlantic Airways1,106 km687 mi LGWLondon Gatwick AirportUnited Kingdom · Atlantic Airways1,287 km800 mi CPHCopenhagen Kastrup AirportDenmark · Scandinavian Airlines1,344 km835 mi CDGCharles de Gaulle International AirportFrance · Atlantic Airways1,574 km978 mi BCNJosep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat AirportSpain · Atlantic Airways2,392 km1,486 mi PMIPalma de Mallorca AirportSpain · Atlantic Airways2,593 km1,611 mi LPAGran Canaria AirportSpain · Atlantic Airways3,842 km2,387 mi

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from FAE. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Vágar Airport” (revision of 17 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Airlines

5 airlines · destinations from FAE

Hub airlines2

RCAtlantic Airways11 —FarCargo

Passenger3

FIIcelandair1 SKScandinavian Airlinesseasonal · 1 WFWiderøe1

Former hub of FaroeJet.

Airlines and destinations as the Routes list above has them; the figure is how many destinations each flies from FAE. Hubs from Wikidata. All airlines

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers239K (2021)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,459of 3,974 · #319 Europe Longest runway1,800 m5,905 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=4,890of 29,858 · =846 Europe Elevation85 m280 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=31,827of 43,403 · =3,874 Europe AgeOpened 19422026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=1,791of 15,079 · =619 Europe Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,364of 29,978 · =646 Europe

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

1 channels

AFISAFIS124.850