Our travel to the Faroe Islands had us experiencing both a new airline (Atlantic Airways) and a new airport (Reykjavik Domestic).

The vast majority of air travel from "Reykjavik" is really from Keflavik International Airport (KEF, 45 miles away), and indeed, that's where we arrived. But our outgoing flight was from RKV, which is actually right in downtown Reykjavik (it's just south of the Tjörnin lake). It's an interesting airport, since:

(a) You have to explain to everyone several times that yes, you do indeed mean RKV instead of KEF.
(b) It's actually easy to walk to instead of public transportation
(c) It oddly has two completely separate terminals (East and West) with no apparent way between them
(d) It was actually surprisingly difficult to figure out where Atlantic Airways flew out of (I almost went to the other termina)
(e) You wonder if you are in the wrong place, since unless the Atlantic Airways flight is actually parked on the tarmac, there's no evidence of them being there
(f) It's a small airport. Really small. Like "smaller than LEB".
(g) Fully half of the airport is Duty Free shopping for the flights to/from Greenland and the Faroes.
(h) The runway is rather short (5100') which is one reason it's not used often, although to my surprise our flight was a A319, which is an awfully large airplane for a 5100' runway







Somewhat to my surprise, despite the 5100' takeoff runway at RKV, and the 6000' landing runway at FOE, our flight was an A319 (only about half full; not sure they can do that flight on a full load):



And this photo doesn't do justice to the splendor, but the approach to Vagar Airport (FOE) is easily one of the most impressive and beautiful approaches I've ever done, with the plane descended between high cliffs as it flies down the fjord: