Vestmannaeyjar Airport

Vestmannaeyjar Airport (Icelandic: Vestmannaeyjaflugvöllur [ˈvɛstˌmanːaˌeiːjaˌflʏɣˌvœtlʏr̥]) (IATA: VEY, ICAO: BIVM) is a two-runway airport on the island of Heimaey, in Vestmannaeyjar (Westman Islands), a small archipelago off the south coast of Iceland. It is also known as Westman Islands Airport.

Vestmannaeyjar Airport

Vestmannaeyjaflugvöllur
Summary
Airport typePublic
OperatorISAVIA
ServesVestmannaeyjar, Iceland
LocationHeimaey
Elevation AMSL326 ft / 99 m
Coordinates63°25′30″N 020°16′45″W
Map
VEY
Location of Airport in Iceland
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
04/22 1,160 3,806 Asphalt
13/31 1,199 3,934 Asphalt
Statistics (2016[1])
Passengers19,107
Source: AIP Iceland[2]

Operations

Air Iceland Connect, flew multiple daily flights to Reykjavík Airport before it ended all scheduled activity on 3 August 2010. The main carrier was then Eagle Air until 2020.[3] Icelandair then took over flights to the airport from April 2021.[4]

Vestmannaeyjar Airport previously had private flights to Bakki Airport on the southern coast of Iceland, taking approximately 7 minutes (depending on the weather); the scheduled flights to Reykjavík Airport takes 25 minutes..

History

During Eldfell's volcanic eruption in 1973, Vestmannaeyjar Airport served as an evacuation point for elderly and patients from the hospital who could not evacuate by boat. After the eruption was over, the tephra provided suitable materials to extend the runways.

Airlines and destinations
AirlinesDestinations
Icelandair Seasonal: Reykjavík

Statistics

Passengers and movements
Annual passenger traffic at VEY airport. See source Wikidata query.
Number of
passengers[note 1]		Number of
movements[note 2]
2003 45,15613,244
2004 47,15713,762
2005 50,49013,526
2006 47,52313,714
2007 48,88213,200
2008 52,18914,599
2009 55,38211,034
2010 26,3005,142
2011 20,4304,022
2012 19,2424,136
2013 17,6554,159
2014 19,4124,900
2015 19,6374,718
2016 19,1074,586
2017 17,3954,817
2018 16,8034,292
2019 11,6903,484
[5]

Notes
  1. Number of passengers including domestic, international and transit.
  2. Number of movements represents total takeoffs and landings during that year.

References
  1. THE AVIATION FACT FILE (Isavia)
  2. "AIP Iceland: AD 2 - BIVM - Vestmannaeyjar / Vestmannaeyjar" (PDF).
  3. "Icelandair stops flights to Vestmannaeyjar due to low demand". 27 August 2021.
  4. "Air Iceland Connect - Westman Islands". airiceland.is. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
  5. "Passengers, freight and mail through Icelandic airports 2003-2019". PX-Web.

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