Ísafjörður Airport
Ísafjörður Airport
Ísafjörður Airport (Icelandic: Ísafjarðarflugvöllur [?i?sa?fjarðar?fl???vœtl?r?]) (IATA: IFJ, ICAO: BIIS) is an airport serving Ísafjörður, a town in the Westfjords (Icelandic: Vestfirðir) region in northwestern Iceland.
Location
66.058°N, 23.135°O · 2 m s. n. m. (8 ft)
General data
Runways · 1
Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.
Radio frequencies · 2
Area control (center)
Flight information
Reference frequencies for enthusiasts, from OurAirports (community database, public domain), checked on Oct 16, 2026. They may be outdated or incomplete and do not replace the AIP or current charts: not for navigation. In Europe the published frequency may be an 8.33 kHz channel (e.g., 118.505 for 118.500). In MHz.
History
Planning for the airport started in 1958 construction of the runway started the same year. It was originally 1,100 meters long and the cost of the construction was 4.8 million ISK. It was formally opened on 2 October 1960 with Gljáfaxi, a Douglas DC-3 from Flugfélag Íslands, being the first plane to land on the airport.
In 2025, Icelandair announced that it would potentially close their route to Ísafjörður Airport on a commercial basis. Their fleet of Bombardier Dash 8-200 aircraft were now unsustainable after new airports in Greenland (Nuuk and Ilulissat) were constructed, which support larger aircraft. Maintaining a fleet of smaller Dash 8-200 aircraft only for Ísafjörður flights would not be viable. However, in April 2026, the Icelandic Government came to an agreement with Icelandair to subsidise and continue flights to Ísafjörður until at least 2030.
Airlines operating here · 1
Other airlines with direct routes
Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).
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This page was last updated on October 15, 2026
APA
Vuelopedia. (2026, October 15). Ísafjörður Airport (IFJ). Retrieved October 24, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/IFJ
MLA
“Ísafjörður Airport (IFJ).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 15 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/IFJ. Accessed 24 Oct. 2026.
Chicago
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Harvard
Vuelopedia (2026) Ísafjörður Airport (IFJ). Available at: https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/IFJ (Accessed: 24 October 2026).
BibTeX
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title = {{Ísafjörður Airport (IFJ)}},
publisher = {Fundación Poderia},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-10-15},
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howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/IFJ}},
urldate = {2026-10-24},
note = {Accessed 2026-10-24}
}Wikipedia
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