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Nov 29, 2013 (newstodate): New management at the Faroe Islands' air carrier Atlantic Airways may warrant a fresh view on future potentials for air traffic at Vagar Airport.
-We are indeed very happy with the successful introduction of the Airbus aircraft on Atlantic Airways' routes, notably the flights between the Faroe Islands and Denmark, says Jakup Sverri Kass, Vagar Airport manager.
-At the same time we see a need for more connections between Vagar Airport and a number of other destinations like for instance Reykjavik, Bergen and Billund. And in these cases, an aircraft the size of an Airbus is obviously too large to render operations profitable.
-Today some 1,500 Faroese are employed in the Norwegian off-shore industry, and many others are working in the UK. To fly between Vagar and destinations serving the Faroe business community and people working abroad requires time-consuming transiting through Copenhagen Airport which certainly entails costs and waste of resources.
-I would therefore be happy to see more flight opportunities with smaller aircraft connecting Vagar and other European airports. It could be a Faroese operator, but it could also very well be another airline company from outside, which would broaden the customer base beyond the limited scale of our own home market.
-Passenger surveys conducted at Vagar Airport show that 48 percent of passengers traveling on the route to Denmark actually transit to other onward flights, which is really not a satisfactory solution to the needs for air travel in the Faroese market, says Mr Kass.
-We are indeed very happy with the successful introduction of the Airbus aircraft on Atlantic Airways' routes, notably the flights between the Faroe Islands and Denmark, says Jakup Sverri Kass, Vagar Airport manager.
-At the same time we see a need for more connections between Vagar Airport and a number of other destinations like for instance Reykjavik, Bergen and Billund. And in these cases, an aircraft the size of an Airbus is obviously too large to render operations profitable.
-Today some 1,500 Faroese are employed in the Norwegian off-shore industry, and many others are working in the UK. To fly between Vagar and destinations serving the Faroe business community and people working abroad requires time-consuming transiting through Copenhagen Airport which certainly entails costs and waste of resources.
-I would therefore be happy to see more flight opportunities with smaller aircraft connecting Vagar and other European airports. It could be a Faroese operator, but it could also very well be another airline company from outside, which would broaden the customer base beyond the limited scale of our own home market.
-Passenger surveys conducted at Vagar Airport show that 48 percent of passengers traveling on the route to Denmark actually transit to other onward flights, which is really not a satisfactory solution to the needs for air travel in the Faroese market, says Mr Kass.