Air Greenland
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| IATA code : | GL |
| ICAO code : | GRL |
| Call sign : | GREENLAND |
| Founding: | 1960 (as Grønlandsfly) |
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Nuuk , Greenland
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| Home airport : | Nuuk Airport |
| Company form: | A / S |
| IATA prefix code : | 631 |
| Management: | Jacob Nitter Sørensen ( CEO ) |
| Number of employees: | 631 (2018) |
| Sales: | 1370.1 million DKK (2018) |
| Balance sheet total: | 1244.1 million DKK (2018) |
| Profit: | 52.1 million DKK (2018) |
| Passenger volume: | 431,000 (2018) |
| Fleet size: | 28 (+ 1 order) |
| Aims: | National and international |
| Website: | www.airgreenland.com |
Air Greenland A / S is Greenland's national airline based in Nuuk and based at Nuuk Airport .
history
Air Greenland was founded in November 1960 under the name Greenlandair or Grønlandsfly by SAS Scandinavian Airlines and the company Kryolitselskabet. Two years later, the governments of the Danish province of Greenland and Denmark itself also participated.
In 2002 Greenlandair was given its current name Air Greenland .
On July 28, 2006 Air Greenland acquired its Greenlandic subsidiary Air Alpha Greenland from the Danish airline Air Alpha .
In April 2010 the company's only Boeing 757-200 was decommissioned, which was used on the Narsarsuaq – Copenhagen route, among other things. She was called "Kunuunnguaq", the Inuit nickname for Knud Rasmussen . It was Air Greenland's first jet- powered aircraft in 1998 . Since its retirement, the Airbus A330-200 "Norsaq" acquired in 2003 has been the company's only jet-powered aircraft. The routes of the 757 are taken over by chartered aircraft.
At the end of April 2019, it was announced that the government of Greenland intended to take over Air Greenland in full. In addition, 37.5 percent of SAS and 25 percent of the state of Denmark will be bought for 461 million DKK (around 62 million euros). That purchase was finally made on May 29th.
Destinations
Air Greenland connects the places in Greenland that are not connected by road by air and also links Greenland to other countries. In 2018, two year-round international connections, two seasonal international connections, 18 national airplane connections, 26 year-round helicopter connections and 18 seasonal helicopter connections were offered.
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Current fleet
As of January 2020, Air Greenland's fleet consists of nine aircraft with an average age of around 22 years and 19 helicopters :
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| Airbus A330-800 | 1 | Delivery end of 2021 Replaces A330-200 |
305 | ||
| Airbus A330-200 | 1 | about 21 years old | 278 (30/248) | ||
| Beechcraft Super King Air B200 | 1 | Rescue plane | 8 (- / 8) | ||
| De Havilland DHC-8-200 | 7th | about 22 years old | 37 (- / 37) | ||
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| Bell 212 | 8th | 9 (- / 9) | |||
| Eurocopter AS 350 | 9 | 5 (- / 5) | |||
| Eurocopter EC 225 | 2 | ? | |||
| Sikorsky S-61N | 2 | 19 (- / 19) | |||
| total | 28 | 3 | |||
Previously deployed aircraft
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In the past, Greenlandair / Air Greenland used the following types of aircraft and helicopters:
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Holdings
Air Greenland has interests in the following companies:
- Hotel Arctic A / S (100%)
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Greenland Travel A / S (100%)
- World of Greenland A / S is a partnership between Greenland Travel A / S and Ilulissat Travel A / S.
- Norlandair ehf. (25%)
Incidents
- On August 29, 1961, a de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter of Eastern Provincial Airways (CF-MEX) , which was operated for Greenlandair, took off from Sondrestrom Air Base on a charter flight to Aasiaat Airport . When the machine reached an altitude of 3,500 feet, a serious fire developed on board, triggered by a leak in the carburetor. The pilots, who sustained severe burns in the incident, managed to make an emergency landing on a lake, causing the machine to slide onto the bank and burn out. The four passengers were uninjured. During the events, the flight captain was thrown out of the cockpit and trapped under a floating skid. He suffered severe burns from which he died on September 9, 1961 (see also Greenlandair's flight accident near Kangerlussuaq 1961 ) .
- On May 12, 1962, a Canadian Vickers PBV-1A Canso (PBY-5A) of Eastern Provincial Airways (CF-IHA) operated on behalf of Greenlandair , with which a domestic flight was to be carried out from Kangerlussuaq to Nuuk , crashed while landing in the water a fjord. After landing, the aircraft filled with water from the bow after the nose gear flaps were pulled out on landing and the landing gear shaft was deformed. Since the emergency exits were blocked by pieces of luggage, 15 of the 21 people on board drowned (see also Greenlandair's flight accident at Nuuk 1962 ) .
- On October 25, 1973, a Sikorsky S-61 N helicopter ( aircraft registration number OY-HAI; Aĸigssiaĸ) crashed into the sea on the way from Nuuk to Paamiut near Utoqqarmiut ten minutes after the start of the flight . All 15 occupants died in the crash. The wreck was recovered in February 1974 after several months of unsuccessful attempts from a depth of 204 m, the greatest depth until then for the recovery of an air or sea vehicle.
Web links
- Air Greenland website (Greenlandic, Danish, English)
- Greenland Travel website (German, English, Danish)
- World of Greenland website (English, Danish)
- Website of the Icelandic Norlandair (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Årsrapport 2018 airgreenland.com, (Danish), PDF, accessed on January 31, 2020
- ↑ Jan Gruber: SAS and the state get out of Air Greenland. In: austrianaviation.net. April 26, 2019, accessed April 27, 2019 .
- ↑ Grønland køber Air Greenland in Sermitsiaq
- ↑ Fleet age Air Greenland | Airfleets aviation. Retrieved January 12, 2020 .
- ↑ Air Greenland's fleet , accessed on March 13, 2018
- ↑ airgreenland.com - About , accessed April 14, 2018
- ↑ Record investment: Air Greenland chooses small Airbus A330 Neo. In: aeroTELEGRAPH. January 17, 2020, accessed on January 17, 2020 (Swiss Standard German).
- ↑ Air Greenland køber nyt atlantfly in Sermitsiaq
- ↑ Airbus Helicopters - Air Greenland orders two EC225 helicopters for use in all-weather missions, including search and rescue, September 12, 2011 ( Memento of February 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 27, 2015
- ↑ Air Greenland, Flyflåden: Overview of previous aircraft types ( Memento of May 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (Danish), accessed on March 9, 2017.
- ↑ planespotters , accessed on March 9, 2017.
- ↑ ORGANIZATION - Subsidiaries. In: airgreenland.com. Retrieved April 30, 2019 .
- ^ Accident report Sikorsky S-61N OY-HAI , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on December 26, 2019.
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