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Vágar Airport

ICAO EKVG62.0633°N 7.2758°W85 m / 280 ftLarge airport
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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
Most destinationsAtlantic Airways 11Widerøe 1Icelandair 1Scandinavian Airlines 1

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.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers239K (2021)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,459of 3,974 · #317 EuropeLongest runway1,800 m5,905 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=4,888of 29,823 · =840 EuropeElevation85 m280 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=31,779of 43,341 · =3,868 EuropeAgeOpened 19422026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=1,791of 15,079 · =619 EuropeRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =643 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