Reykjavík Airport BIRK / RKV
The downtown airport, a five-minute drive from Reykjavík's centre, handling domestic flights and GA. Customs are available by prior arrangement; jets face noise sensitivity and the runway limits size, so most business jets use Keflavík 45 minutes away.
5,141 ft
Longest runway
5 min
Drive to Reykjavik
1
FBOs / handlers
48 ft
Elevation
Facts
- Hours
- 07:00–23:00 (verify); PPR for jets
- 24-hour operations
- No
- Customs & immigration
- Yes
- Prior permission (PPR)
- Yes
- Slot coordination
- No
- Noise curfew
- Yes
- Runway surface
- asphalt
- Fuel
- Jet A-1, Avgas 100LL
- Helipad
- Yes
- Distance to centre
- 2 km
- Typical largest aircraft
- Turboprops and light/midsize jets; large-cabin limited by runway.
- Website
- www.isavia.is
Private terminals (FBOs)
- Isavia Reykjavík Airport GA handling (verify)
An FBO is the private terminal: lounge, crew, fuel, customs desk. You drive up, walk 30 metres, and board.
Which jets can use this runway?
Based on published takeoff distances at maximum weight versus a 5,141 ft runway. Hot days, high elevation and wet runways reduce the margin.
✓ Comfortably
- Dassault Aviation Falcon 2000LXS 4,675 ft
- Embraer Executive Jets Praetor 600 4,717 ft
- Dassault Aviation Falcon 2000S 4,325 ft
- Bombardier Challenger 3500 4,835 ft
- Bombardier Challenger 350 4,835 ft
- Gulfstream Aerospace G280 4,750 ft
✕ Marginal or no
- Dassault Aviation Falcon 50EX needs 4,890 ft
- Textron Aviation Hawker 900XP needs 4,965 ft
- Gulfstream Aerospace G400 needs 5,000 ft
Other airports for Reykjavik
- Keflavík International Airport BIKF 10,020 ft · 45 min