 The following year a connecting route from Tromsø via Hammerfest to Honningsvåg was subcontracted to Widerøe.The water aerodrome in Hammerfest was located at Rypefjord and consisted of a buoy where the aircraft parked; passengers were transported to the aircraft in a boat.All flights were terminated in 1939 and remained so until the end of World War II in 1945.