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Jun 24, 2024 (newstodate): May 2024 was not exactly the best month for the Faroe Islands' Vagar Airport.
   For good reasons: a nation-wide strike caused industries to close down while the country's infrastructure and supplies came to a halt.
   In May 2024, the airport thus handled "only" 287 tonnes of air cargo, which was, however, still well above the 49 tonnes handled in May 2023!
   During the first five months of this year, Vagar Airport has been handling a total of 1,044 tonnes of cargo, more than 3.5 times more than in Jan-May 2023.
   The big game changer at Vagar Airport is of course the launch of the new cargo carrier FarCargo, performing its first flight with a Boeing 757-200F on the route from Vagar to New York on March 5, 2024, carrying seafood exports for its owner, Bakkafrost.
   The traffic came to four weeks' stand-still by Mid-May '24, only to be resumed from June 10, 2024.
   Plans are now to see FarCargo operating up to six or eight weekly rotations on routes from Vagar to Brussels and Dublin, in most cases calling at the carrier's base at Billund Airport to load shipments for the Faroese market.
   Flights on the route from Vagar to New York via Keflavik Airport are however now cancelled in favor of inter-European flights to airline hubs for transfer of shipments by cooperating airlines to the USA and Asia.