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Jun 23, 2020 (newstodate): Not surprisingly, the current coronavirus pandemic shows clearly on the cargo statistics of the Faroe Islands' Vagar Airport in 2020.
So far, the first five months of the year has seen volumes down by 52.7 percent, y-o-y, to only 258 tonnes.
Mail volumes through the airport are also down during the period, with 96 tonnes, down six percent.
All air traffic was suspended during the peak of the virus, with restrictions lifted only from June 15, 2020.
The country's carrier Atlantic Airways is now back in the air with three weekly rotations on flights between Vagar and Keflavik on Iceland, daily flights to Copenhagen Airport, two weekly and from June 20 four weekly flights to Billund, and two weekly flights to Aalborg.