Egilsstaðir_Airport

Egilsstaðir Airport

Egilsstaðir Airport

Airport

Egilsstaðir Airport (Icelandic: Egilsstaðaflugvöllur [ˈeijɪlsˌstaːðaˌflʏɣˌvœtlʏr̥]) (IATA: EGS, ICAO: BIEG) is a single-runway international airport in Egilsstaðir, Iceland. The main carrier is Icelandair with flights to Reykjavík. The airport has several car rental options available, such as Höldur/Europcar, Hertz and Avis/Budget. Egilsstaðir also serves as a diversion airport for Keflavik International Airport located 415 kilometers southwest of Egilstaðir.

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History

Originally a gravel runway was made in 1951 and in 1954 it was equipped with runway lights. On the 23rd of September 1993, a new asphalt runway replaced the older gravel runway on the other side of the terminal. The air terminal was originally built in 1968, but was rebuilt and expanded during 1987 to 1999. A new arrivals hall was opened in 2007. It is mainly used for domestic flights to Reykjavík, but there has been a route to Copenhagen, and charter flight from London and Edinburgh, UK (the tour operator Discover the World chartered flights in 2016 but has later preferred regular tickets to Keflavik for its escorted Iceland trips). From May 2023, Egilsstaðir Airport was planned to have scheduled international flights again with Condor, a German holiday-carrier, starting flights to Frankfurt.[4] These plans were cancelled two months before the start of the route, Condor citing weak demand.[5]

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Egilsstaðir Airport:

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Statistics

Annual passenger traffic at EGS airport. See Wikidata query.

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Isavia. "AVIATION FACT FILE" (PDF). Retrieved 2020-08-08.
  2. [2]
    "AIP Iceland: AD 2 - BIEG - EGILSSTAÐIR / Egilsstaðir" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-07-14.
  3. [3]
    Airport information for EGS at Great Circle Mapper.
  4. [4]
    "Condor Launches Iceland Service from May 2023".
  5. [5]
    "Hætta við flug til Akureyrar og Egilsstaða". 27 March 2023.

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