Vágar Airport

Vágar Airport (Faroese: Vága Floghavn) (IATA: FAE, ICAO: EKVG) is the only airport in the Faroe Islands, and is located 1 NM (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) east[1] of the village of Sørvágur, on the island of Vágar and 46 km (29 miles) west of the capital Tórshavn.Due to the Faroe Islands' status as a self-governing territory, the airport is not subject to the rules of the European Union.After the war, Vágar airfield was abandoned and left unused until 1963, when it was reopened as a civilian airport at the initiative of two Sørvágur residents, Hugo Fjørðoy and Lars Larsen.The two worked with the Icelandic airline Icelandair, which began the scheduled flights to Bergen, Copenhagen and Glasgow using a Douglas DC-3 aircraft.Until 2002 travel from the airport to most locations in the Faroe Islands including the capital Tórshavn required a car ferry, but since the Vágatunnilin, a tolled road tunnel, was opened in 2002, travel has been made much easier by giving direct road access to the neighbouring island of Streymoy, where Tórshavn is located.[18] In August 2023, Atlantic Airways inaugurated seasonal service to Stewart Airport, 110 kilometres (70 mi) from New York City.
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