Flying with Atlantic Airways Helicopters in the Faroe Islands

If you’re visiting the Faroe Islands, one of the most unique and interesting things you can do is embarking on a truly breathtaking helicopter flight with Atlantic Airways.

Atlantic Airways Helicopters – Booking

Atlantic Airways’s helicopters serve as important transport links between the various islands of the Faroese archipelago.

Atlantic Airways operates a total of two Leonardo AW139 helicopters in their fleet. With only 15 bookable spots on each route, the seats tend to get booked up rather quickly. What’s more, since the helicopter flights are subsidized by the Faroese government, the fares are very reasonable.

While the helicopter flights are intended for locals to get around, visitors to the islands can also book available seats. However, only one-way bookings are permitted, and not round-trip bookings, to prevent tourists from taking a ride on the helicopter “just for fun” and taking seats away from the locals.

Since tourists can only book a single one-way flight per day, the best way to experience the helicopters as a tourist is to fly between two islands in one direction, and then make use of the Faroe Islands’ excellent ferry and bus transport infrastructure for the other leg of the journey.

Bookings open seven days in advance on many routes between most of the islands. The exceptions are the routes to and from Froðba and Stóra Dímun, the two southernmost islands served by helicopters, where bookings only open two days in advance.

The route network is quite extensive and spans most destinations in the archipelago. Helicopter service is available to and from the westernmost, easternmost and southernmost extremities of the territory.

In our case, we booked our flight only a few days in advance, when most of the seats to and from the biggest population centres were already full.

However, we managed to score a ride between Froðba and Skúvoy, the southernmost and third-southernmost heliports, situated on the islands of Suðuroy and the eponymous Skúvoy, respectively.

From Skúvoy, we planned our journey to return to the capital of Tórshavn via a series of ferries and buses. Thus, our day-trip excursion would take us on three different modes of transportation:

• Ferry from Tórshavn (on the main island of Streymoy) out to Tvøroyri (on the island of Suðuroy)
• Helicopter from Froðba (on the island…