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.
The airport services seasonal, charter and medical flights as well as general aviation. On 1 April 2024, year-round scheduled flights by Eagle Air to the airport ceased.[3]
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VestmannaeyjarAirport (Icelandic: Vestmannaeyjaflugvöllur [ˈvɛstˌmanːaˌeiːjaˌflʏɣˌvœtlʏr̥]) (IATA: VEY, ICAO: BIVM) is a two-runway airport on the island...
Vestmannaeyjar (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈvɛstˌmanːaˌeiːjar̥] , sometimes anglicized as Westman Islands) is a municipality and archipelago off the south...
is the only populated island of the Vestmannaeyjar islands, with a population of 4,414. The VestmannaeyjarAirport and the Westman Islands Golf Club taken...
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and tephra fall did not at first affect the island's airstrip (VestmannaeyjarAirport), and a few people who were unable to travel by boat were evacuated...
Number Name From To Notes 22 Dalavegur Básaskersbryggja, Vestmannaeyjar harbour VestmannaeyjarAirport 25 Þykkvabæjarvegur 1 at Hella 275 at Þykkvabær 26 Landvegur...
attempting to land the aircraft at Reykjavík Airport in heavy snowfalls following a flight from Vestmannaeyjar when radar contact was lost. 14 April 1963...
Hornafjördur Ísafjörður Keflavík Raufarhöfn Reykjavík Seyðisfjörður Straumsvík Vestmannaeyjar Merchant marine: total: 3 ships (with a tonnage of 1,000gt or over)...
Empire, when Hjörleifr Hróðmarsson's slaves killed him and fled to Vestmannaeyjar.[citation needed] Almost all recorded slave raids in this period took...
an emergency landing on Keflavík Airport after its landing gear failed to come down on its approach to Vestmannaeyjar. The pilots managed to lower two...
Army was re-established by Andreas August von Kohl, the sheriff in Vestmannaeyjar. In 1856, the king provided 180 rixdollars to buy guns, and a further...
converted her for passenger flights. The crash hit the small town of Vestmannaeyjar hard, where the majority of the passengers where from, leaving 50 children...
brought to Iceland by Germans in 1938; the first plane to land in the Vestmannaeyjar Waco YKS-7 identical to TF-ÖRN, the first aircraft operated by Flugfélag...
about 30 minor islands, including the lightly populated Grímsey and the Vestmannaeyjar archipelago. Lakes and glaciers cover 14.3% of its surface; only 23%...
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