ReykjavÃk Airport (Icelandic: ReykjavÃkurflugvöllur) (IATA: RKV, ICAO: BIRK) is the main domestic airport serving ReykjavÃk, the capital of Iceland, located about 2 kilometres from the city centre. Having shorter runways than the city's bigger KeflavÃk International Airport, which is sited 50 kilometres out of town, it only serves internal flights within Iceland and to Greenland, small international charters, transatlantic ferry flights and private flights. It can also serve as alternate airport for flights inbound towards KeflavÃk, in case of adverse weather conditions there. To distinguish from the larger KeflavÃk International Airport outside ReykjavÃk, it is sometimes unofficially in English called Reykjavik City Airport (also by the airport administration), and also Reykjavik Domestic Airport, but also ReykjavÃk international Airport because it has some international flights but mostly domestic ones.
The first flight from the airport area was 3 September 1919, but the current airport was built by the British Army during World War II, and on 6 July 1946, the British handed the airport operation over to the Icelandic government and since then it has been operated by the Icelandic Civil Aviation Authority (now Flugstoðir).
ReykjavÃk Airport is the main hub of Air Iceland Connect and Eagle Air. Of the airport's three runways, two are currently active all-year round. The shortest runway, 06/24, is usually used only in winter, and takeoffs from 06 (northeast direction) are forbidden because of safety and noise. ReykjavÃk Airport is owned and operated by the state enterprise Isavia.