Some inhabitants in Ísafjörður would have been startled when an aircraft flew into the fjord and landed on the sea at Prestabugt, off the sandbar on 4 June 1928. The plane was called Súlan and it returned a month later for the first passenger flight to the West Fjords. In the year 1938 a new airline was founded at Akureyri which was later to become Flugfélag Íslands. It flew occasionally with passengers between Reykjavik and Ísafjörður during the following years and started scheduled flights in 1945 with a Catalina seaplane. Another airline, Loftleiðir, was however ahead in commencing scheduled flights to Ísafjörður in the year 1944, with a Stinson seaplane and later with Grumman seaplanes. Seaplanes normally landed in the natural harbour called Pollurinn and were beached at Hafnarstræti, or passengers were ferried by boat to Bæjarbryggjan jetty.

An airport was taken into use in the autumn of 1960 at Skipeyri í Skutulsfirði and has been in use to the present day. 

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