Keflavík International Airport

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The Keflavik Airport ( IATA code KEF, ICAO code BIKF, isl. Keflavíkurflugvöllur, Eng. Keflavík International Airport ) is an international airport in Iceland and at the same time a NATO airbase. The terminal of the airport is named Flugstöð Leif Eiríkssonar or short Leifsstöð ( Leif Eriksson - terminal).

Domestic flights and flights to Greenland ( with the exception of flights from Air Greenland ) and the Faroe Islands are not handled through the airport Keflavik, but about the airport Reykjavik, which is located directly in the capital.

Geography

The airport is located 50 km southwest of Iceland's capital Reykjavik on the Reykjanesskagi peninsula at Keflavík.

Transport links

Bus connection: between the bus terminal BSÍ in central Reykjavík and the international airport of flybus society Reykjavík Excursions wrong - Kynnisferðir and the Airport Express bus company " Iceland -Excursions ". The journey from BSÍ is 40 - 50 min, before being pick up from major hotels possible. The departure times are based on the flight plan.

International connections

From German-speaking countries Keflavík is several flights all year round in the week with the Icelandic Airlines Icelandair from Munich and Frankfurt WOW air and the airport Berlin- Schönefeld Airport; also seasonally from Icelandair from Munich, Hanover, Hamburg and Zurich and of the WOW Air from Dusseldorf, Stuttgart, Salzburg and Zurich. Connecting exist with KLM via Amsterdam and about with SAS via Copenhagen or Stockholm.

Important international destinations from Keflavík are Halifax, London, Nuuk, Boston, New York, Orlando and Toronto.

More at the international airport of Keflavik represented airlines are Lufthansa (seasonal Saturday from airport Berlin- Tegel, Dusseldorf and Hamburg), SAS to Oslo, Niki in the summer to Vienna Air Berlin (seasonal summer to Hamburg, Berlin- Tegel, Dusseldorf, and Munich) and German Wings (seasonal summer Cologne, Hanover and Stuttgart). easyJet offers year-round to and from London - Luton. Air Greenland connects Keflavík in the summer several times a week with Narsarsuaq and Nuuk.

Charter business use MyTravel Airways and the Primera Air Keflavik airport, both in summer and winter schedules. The airport is also home to the seat of the wet lease company Air Atlanta Icelandic and cargo airline Bluebird Cargo.

Delta Air Lines joined in summer 2011 to Keflavík Airport five times a week with New York ( JFK).

Airport statistics

In 2012, 2,380,214 passengers used the airport Keflavik.

Artworks

• The "Jet Nest" by Magnús Tómasson shows a large Stahlei from which protrudes a Jetflügel, like a little bird hatches out of the egg.
• The "Rainbow " is a sculpture of stainless steel and stained glass of Rúrí and was built with a height of 24 meters in 1991.