Last month 13,868 travelers passing through the terminals at Vágar Airport, according to information published by the port authority. This is a 187-percent increase on the modest February 2021, which saw as few as only 4,831 passengers leaving and arriving through the airport.
Despite that increase there is still quite a way to reach pre-Covid levels, as the passenger numbers of February 2022 fall short compared to the corresponding figures for 2019 and 2020 by more than one-fourth and just above one-third, respectively.
In February 2019, a total of more than 19,000 passengers walked through the airport terminals and during the same month in the following year — shortly before the onset of Covid-19 bringing a major setback to the aviation and tourism industry — as many as 21,000 travelers went via Vagar Airport.
