<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-center">History V&aacute;gar International Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para ">The airport was built by British Army Royal Engineers during World War II on the island of V&aacute;gar; the site was known as RAF Vagar/Vaagar (Royal Air Force). The site was chosen mainly because it was hard to see from the surrounding waters and any potential German warship. The first aeroplane landed here in Autumn 1942. (See British occupation of the Faroe Islands in World War II). British engineers had similarly first built Reykjav&iacute;k Airport in Iceland in 1940, then known as RAF Reykjavik, following the British Occupation of Iceland.</p>
<p class="blog-para ">After the war, V&aacute;gar airfield was abandoned and left unused until 1963, when it was reopened as a civilian airport at the initiative of two S&oslash;rv&aacute;gur residents, Hugo Fj&oslash;r&eth;oy and Lars Larsen. The two worked with the Icelandic airline Icelandair, which began the scheduled flights to Bergen, Copenhagen and Glasgow using a Douglas DC-3 aircraft. In 1964 a separate airline, Faroe Airways, operated flights, first using chartered aircraft but in 1965 they bought a DC-3 from the Swedish airline Linjeflyg. The company ceased operating on 28 September 1967.</p>
<p class="blog-para ">On 26 March 2016, Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) began to fly from Copenhagen to V&aacute;gar, the first airline other than Atlantic to do so in many years. SAS has had trouble with fog landings which caused cancellations. But in February 2019 SAS started using the Required Navigation Performance procedure, which allows landings in more fog, but requires special onboard equipment, pilot training and approval from the aviation administration. Atlantic Airways began using the system in 2012 as first airline in Europe. The airport is currently managed by the Danish Transport Authority, although the ownership of the airport was handed over to the Faroese government in May 2007.</p>
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<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 pt-5">Transportation V&aacute;gar International Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para">There are bus services about 10 times each direction per day between the airport and T&oacute;rshavn. They take one hour. The road distance to T&oacute;rshavn is 47 km (29 mi). The "V&aacute;gatunnilin" tunnel (4.9 km (3.0 mi)) connects the airport and the V&aacute;gar island to the main towns and villages in the Faroe Islands.</p>
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