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Mar 13, 2012 (newstodate): With a runway extension completed in December 2011, the Faeroe Islands' Vagar Airport is now ready to exploit new business opportunities.
The original 1,250m runway has been extended eastwards by 350m and by another 200m westwards, allowing for operations without weight penalty by larger aircraft including the Airbus Family/Boeing 737
By the end of this month, the country's carrier Atlantic Airways will take delivery of its ex-factory Airbus A319 aircraft to be introduced on routes to Denmark as well as other new destinations to be opened, with flights to Barcelona, Spain, as the first to be operated.
But the upgraded airport will also now be open to other operators, and Norway's ever-expanding LCC, Norwegian is planning to perform technical test flights into Vagar Airport to validate the airport as a potential new destination.
This would not, however, be the first time competition emerges in the country's aviation market.
On May 15, 2006, a private airline venture, FaroeJet launched flights with a single Avro RJ100 on Atlantic Airways' trunk route to Copenhagen.
But already on December 17, 2006, the carrier stopped all activities after its head-on competition with Atlantic Airways.
Other plans, albeit never materialized due in part to the earlier limitations on the runway capacity, have been setting up a freighter service from the airport to lift the country's seafood exports to the marketplace.
The original 1,250m runway has been extended eastwards by 350m and by another 200m westwards, allowing for operations without weight penalty by larger aircraft including the Airbus Family/Boeing 737
By the end of this month, the country's carrier Atlantic Airways will take delivery of its ex-factory Airbus A319 aircraft to be introduced on routes to Denmark as well as other new destinations to be opened, with flights to Barcelona, Spain, as the first to be operated.
But the upgraded airport will also now be open to other operators, and Norway's ever-expanding LCC, Norwegian is planning to perform technical test flights into Vagar Airport to validate the airport as a potential new destination.
This would not, however, be the first time competition emerges in the country's aviation market.
On May 15, 2006, a private airline venture, FaroeJet launched flights with a single Avro RJ100 on Atlantic Airways' trunk route to Copenhagen.
But already on December 17, 2006, the carrier stopped all activities after its head-on competition with Atlantic Airways.
Other plans, albeit never materialized due in part to the earlier limitations on the runway capacity, have been setting up a freighter service from the airport to lift the country's seafood exports to the marketplace.