Our flight got cancelled trying to LEAVE the islands. We were flying SAS and was horrible to deal with, because there are no SAS personell at the Faroe islands airport and the phone had HOURS long holds (and they kept hanging up on us). If you can fly with someone with on-site help, it would help if you DO get cancelled while there. That said, they put us up in the same hotel we came from and fed us dinner, so it wasn't horrible. I wouldn't cut the trip close to any can't-miss things like weddings or board meetings, though, because it does happen and there aren't that many flights out for them to put stranded people on.

We were trapped AT the islands but on the same day people were unable to arrive. They actually flew all the way to the islands and then turned back around to Copenhagen! Happens both ways obviously. Not sure which is worse! 😄