Egilsstaðir Airport

Egilsstaðir Airport is a single-runway airport in , . The only scheduled carrier is Icelandair with flights to . Egilsstaðir also serves as a diversion airport for Keflavik International Airport located 415 kilometers southwest of Egilsstaðir.
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  • Type: Aerodrome
  • Description: single-runway airport in Egilsstaðir, Iceland
  • Also known as: “BIEG”, “Egilsstadir Airport”, “EGILSSTADIR airport”, and “EGS”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Egilsstadir Upper Secondary School.

School
is a in the , was founded in 1979. For the first few years the school was housed in a building built in 1983 that now houses boarders.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fellabaer and Egilsstaðir.

Village
Photo: Janko Hoener, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Fellabær is a town in , located right across from . A short bridge across , approximately 300 metres in length, connects and Fellabær.

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is the unofficial capital of . Its population is 2332. It lies on the banks of the Lagarfljót river.

Egilsstaðir Airport

Latitude
65.28277° or 65° 16′ 58″ north
Longitude
-14.40172° or 14° 24′ 6″ west
Elevation
23 metres (75 feet)
Operator
Civil Government
IATA airport code
EGS
ICAO airport code
BIEG
Open location code
9CQ77HMX+48
Open­Street­Map ID
way 564062245
Open­Street­Map feature
aeroway=­aerodrome
Geo­Names ID
6295707
Wiki­data ID
Q974363
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Vietnamese—“Egilsstaðir Airport” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Aeropuertu d’Egilsstaðdir”
  • Cebuano: “Egilsstaðir Airport”
  • Chinese: “埃伊爾斯塔濟機場”
  • Dutch: “Egilsstadaflugvollur”
  • Dutch: “Egilsstaðaflugvöllur”
  • Dutch: “Luchthaven van Egilsstaðir”
  • French: “aérodrome de Islande”
  • French: “aéroport d’Egilsstaðir”
  • French: “Aéroport d’Egilsstaðir”
  • French: “Aéroport de Egilsstaðir”
  • French: “BIEG”
  • French: “Egilsstaðir”
  • French: “EGS”
  • German: “BIEG”
  • German: “EGS”
  • German: “Flughafen Egilsstaðir”
  • Hungarian: “Egilsstaðir repülőtér”
  • Icelandic: “Egilsstaðaflugvöllur”
  • Indonesian: “BIEG”
  • Indonesian: “EGS”
  • Italian: “aeroporto di Egilsstaðir”
  • Japanese: “エイイルススタジル空港”
  • Korean: “에이일스타디르 공항”
  • Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Egilsstadir”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Egilsstaðir lufthavn”
  • Norwegian: “Egilsstaðir lufthavn”
  • Persian: “BIEG”
  • Persian: “EGS”
  • Persian: “فرودگاه اگیلستادیر”
  • Polish: “Port lotniczy Egilsstaðir”
  • Romanian: “Aeroportul Egilsstaðir”
  • Russian: “Эйильсстадир (аэропорт)”
  • Russian: “Эйильсстадир”
  • Spanish: “Aeropuerto de Egilsstaðir”
  • Swedish: “Egilsstaðir Airport”
  • Swedish: “Egilsstaðirs flygplats”
  • Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи огилстодир”
  • Vietnamese: “Sân bay Egilsstaðir”
  • “BIEG”
  • “EGS”

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