Interconnected

The Faroe Islands have a highly ad­vanced domestic infrastructure in transportation and digital networks. Paved roads connect all inhabited vil­lages, and all the islands are connected either by subsea tunnels, bridges, fer­ries or by helicopter. From the Faroe Islands there are daily flights and regular ferry and cargo links to all neighboring countries.

The national Faroese airline, Atlantic Airways, operates to and from the Faroe Islands on a daily basis – including regular flights to Copenhagen (several flights a day), Billund (at least 2 times a week), Reykjavík (2-3 times a week), Edinburgh (twice a week), and Bergen (twice a week). Atlantic Airways also serves flights to Aalborg (3 times a week) and Barcelona (twice a week) during the summer season and also routes to destinations such as Lisbon, Crete, Mallorca and Gran Canaria.

In 2016, a record-breaking 292,000 people used Vágar airport as their gateway to and from the Faroe Islands. The number of passengers has been steadily increasing over the past 5 years due to restructuring and prioritizing of the Faroese tourism-sector.

In March 2017, SAS joined the Faroese marked in 2017 and provides daily services from Copenhagen to the Faroe Islands.

Historically, the most common way to travel to the Faroe Islands has been by sea. The ferry Norröna, which is oper­ated by Smyril Line, sails to Hanstholm in Denmark and to Seyðisfjørður in Ice­land, transporting both passengers and cargo.

Telecommunications and high-speed internet connection across the whole country also provide an excellent base for maintaining the economic, social and cultural viability of remoter com­munities.