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Keflavik Airport
Airport Directory » Iceland » Reykjavik » Keflavik AirportKeflavík International Airport (Icelandic: Keflavíkurflugvöllur) (IATA: KEF, ICAO: BIKF) is the biggest airport in Iceland and the commonwealth’s briny hub for international transportation system. It is located near the city of Keflavík, approximately 50 kilometre (approximately 31 land mile) from Reykjavík. The airport has 2 landing track, 1 3065 m × 60 m and 1 3054 m × 60 m. The airport area is approximately 25 foursquare kilometres. Almost every international travel to or from Iceland passes through this airport.
The independent bearers at Keflavík are Icelandair and Iceland Express who do the airport their briny hub. The airport is only an international airport, all domestic voyages are winged from Reykjavík Airport, which lies within three kilometre from Reykjavík’s town center. Keflavík International Airport is functioned by Leifur Eiriksson Air Terminal Ltd., a regime company.
History
Airport history
An Icelandair Boeing 757-200 serviced at the entrance at KeflavíkThe airport was made by the United States Army during World War II. The U.S. Army Air Forces wanted an field at Keflavik capable of functioning heavy bombers, in addition to a scrapper strip. Funds were apportioned in January 1942 and building set about on the scrapper strip (known as Patterson Field) in May. Two landing track of the scrapper field were in use by July when Operation Bolero set about. The bomber strip, known as Meeks Field, was get down in July by armed forces and civilian contractor crews, but the civilian contractor was palliated by the new characteristic U.S. Navy building battalions Seabees and opened on March 23, 1943.
During the conflict the airport building complex only assisted armed forces intentions, but shortly after the conflict it went a refueling halt for airplanes cut across the Atlantic. After withdrawal in 1947, U.S. squeezes return to Keflavík in 1951 and elongated using the airport until September 30, 2006, when the installing was handed over to the Government of Iceland.
With the re-construction of the army base at Keflavík during the 1950s, the air depot constitute itself positioned in the centre of the ground. International travellers hence had to move into armed forces check over points to make their voyages, which gave the experiencing that the US armed forces commanded access to and from Iceland. This elongated until 1987 when the civilian depot was relocated. The former Agreed Military Area at Keflavík has been redesignated "Airport, Security and Development Area" under the oversight of the Keflavík International Airport Authority, the Defence Department of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and the Keflavík Airport Development Corporation severally.
The landing track are long enough to back up NASA's Space Shuttle and also the Antonov An-225
Leifur Eiríksson Air Terminal
South construction insideKeflavík International Airport has 1 depot named Leifur Eiríksson Air Terminal (Flugstöð Leifs Eiríkssonar or Leifsstöð in Icelandic), named for Leif Ericson. It was opened in 1987 and thereby divided the airport’s polite traffic from its armed forces actions. It was afterwards continued with the opening of the southward construction in 2001 (not a separate depot) to follow with the demands of the Schengen Agreement. The northward construction was afterwards enlarged and complete in 2007. The depot has duty free shops in the going and reaching lounges.
Although the population of Iceland is only approximately 300,000, there are scheduled voyages to and from 4 places in the United States (New York, Boston, Orlando, and Minneapolis), Halifax and Toronto in Canada, and 20 towns across Europe. The biggest bearers at Keflavik are Icelandair and Iceland Express.
It should be mentioned that Keflavík Airport only assists international voyages (except for voyages to Akureyri in connexion with Air Iceland’s voyages): domestic voyages and voyages to Greenland and the Faroe Islands are functioned from the Reykjavík’s domestic airport. When modifying between domestic and international voyages, a 50 kilometre jitney transport is normally necessitated, and at smallest 3 60 minutes clip between voyages is urged.
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