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Nov 03, 2020 (newstodate): The sustained coronavirus pandemic shows clearly on the cargo statistics of the Faroe Islands' Vagar Airport in 2020.
   After the first nine months of this year, cargo volumes handled at Vagar Airport are down 50.3 percent, y-o-y, to only 453 tonnes.
   September 2020 fared better, however, with a drop by "only" 15.3 percent, y-o-y, to 64 tonnes.
   However, mail volumes were down only 0.6 percent, y-o-y, with 174 tonnes in January-September, and actually growing by 17 percent in September.
   Plying the skies on the route between the Faroe Islands and Denmark is Atlantic Airways with one daily rotation to Copenhagen and two to three weekly rotations to Billund.  
    This winter, Vagar Airport will lose its SAS flights to Copenhagen as the carrier performed its last flight on the route between Vagar Airport and Copenhagen Airport on September 29, 2020, returning only by the start of the next summer schedule 2021, leaving Atlantic Airways alone again on the trunk route between the two markets.
    SAS made its entry on the route with the first flight on April 27, 2017, breaking the virtual monopoly enjoyed by the Faroese carrier Atlantic Airways that started operations on the route on March 28, 1988.