Flugfélag Vestmannaeyja

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Flugfélag Vestmannaeyja
IATA ICAO Callsign
FVMELEGANT
Founded 1983
Hubs Vestmannaeyjar airport
Focus cities Bakki
Fleet size 4
Destinations 2 Vestmannaeyjar airport, Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland
Headquarters Vestmannaeyjar airport, Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland
Key people Valgeir Arnórsson CEO / Managing Director
Website http://www.eyjaflug.is/index_isl.php [ dead link ]

Flugfélag Vestmannaeyja (1983–2010) was a regional airline based on the Vestmannaeyjar archipelago, Iceland. It was founded to provide aviation services for the people of Vestmannaeyjar and also tourists visiting Vestmannaeyjar]. It operated both scheduled and charter services along with sightseeing and cargo flights. It also took care of all ambulance flights from Vestmannaeyjar. The airline is no longer operational.

Regional airline airline connecting smaller airports within a region

Regional airlines are airlines that operate regional aircraft to provide passenger air service to communities without sufficient demand to attract mainline service. There are two main ways for a regional airline to do business:

  1. As an affiliated airline, contracting with a major airline, operating under their brand name, and filling two roles: delivering passengers to the major airline's hubs from surrounding towns, and increasing frequency of service on mainline routes during times when demand does not warrant use of large aircraft, known as commuter flights.
  2. Operating as an independent airline under their own brand, mostly providing service to small and isolated towns, for whom the airline is the only reasonable link to a larger town. Examples of this are PenAir, which links the remote Aleutian Islands to Anchorage, Alaska, and Mokulele Airlines, which operates in the Hawaiian islands.
Vestmannaeyjar Town and municipality in South Constituency, Iceland

Vestmannaeyjar is a municipality and archipelago off the south coast of Iceland.

Archipelago A group of islands

An archipelago, sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster or collection of islands, or sometimes a sea containing a small number of scattered islands.

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History

The airline was founded in 1983 to attract more tourists to Vestmannaeyjar and provide services to the inhabitants. In 2001 Flugfélag Vestmannaeyja started scheduled flights between Vestmannaeyjar and Bakki, and 30.000 passengers are carried on this flight each year.

With the impending opening of a new harbor and ferry terminal close to Bakki airport and with dwindling business the airline has ceased operations as of May 2010. [1]

Previous destinations

(as of May 2009)

Bakki Airport airport

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Fleet

Flugfélag Vestmannaeyja fleet (as of April 2008):

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