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Gjögur Airport

IATA: GJR
ICAO: BIGJ

Summary

Airport type

Public

Operator

ISAVIA

Serves

Árneshreppur, Iceland

Elevation AMSL

98 ft / 30 m

Coordinates

65°59′40″N 21°19′45″W / 65.99444°N 21.32917°W

Map

GJR

Runways

Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	m	ft	Surface
05/23	960	3,150	Asphalt Stabilized Gravel

Source: AIP Iceland^[1] Google Maps^[2] GCM^[3]

Gjögur Airport (Icelandic: Gjögurflugvöllur [ˈcœːɣʏrˌflʏɣˌvœtlʏr̥]) (IATA: GJR, ICAO: BIGJ) is an airport serving the small population of the Árneshreppur district in the Westfjords of north-west Iceland, on the coast of Húnaflói bay.

Operations

It is staffed part-time by an AFIS controller, and only opens for Norlandair flights, which are twice a week in the winter and once a week in the summer. Gjögur airport is very important to the local population. In the winter, the airport is the only means of access to the entire district, as the access road is impassable. The government of Iceland requires these flights in order to supply the population with food and other goods, and provide passenger transport. Norlandair is the only airline that flies here.

The airport has runway lights, PAPI lights, and taxiway lights. It has an instrument approach using the on-field Gjogur non-directional beacon (Ident: GJ), but this is only short range, e.g. it can be picked up from nearby Hólmavík airfield.^[4]^[5]

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Norlandair	Reykjavík

Statistics

Passengers and movements


	Number of passengers^{[note 1]}	Number of movements^{[note 2]}
2015	224	160
2016	397	194
2017	177	146
2018	184	150
2019	116	122
2020	150	136
2021	153	170
^[6]

Notes

^ Number of passengers including domestic, international and transit.
^ Number of movements represents total takeoffs and landings during that year.

References

^ "AIP Iceland: AD 2 - BIGJ - Gjögur" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-08-28.
^ "Google Maps". Google Maps.
^ Airport information for GJR at Great Circle Mapper.
^ "SkyVector: Flight Planning / Aeronautical Charts". skyvector.com.
^ "GJ @ OurAirports". ourairports.com.
^ "Passengers, freight and mail through Icelandic airports 2003-2019". PX-Web.^{[permanent dead link‍]}

External links

v t e Airports in Iceland
Major international	Reykjavík-Keflavík
Minor international	Akureyri Reykjavík
Domestic	Bíldudalur Egilsstaðir Gjögur Grímsey Hornafjörður Húsavík Ísafjörður Þórshöfn Vestmannaeyjar Vopnafjörður
Unscheduled	Bakki Hólmavík Húsafell Mývatn Norðfjörður Sauðárkrókur Selfoss Siglufjörður Þingeyri
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