Air Greenland’s summer route went on Tuesday directly between Aalborg and Nuuk in the air.
The route is particularly aimed at Danish tourists on group trips and Greenlanders in Denmark who are going home on holiday.
Air Greenland’s summer route went on Tuesday directly between Aalborg and Nuuk in the air.
The route is particularly aimed at Danish tourists on group trips and Greenlanders in Denmark who are going home on holiday.
If you live in the northern part of Jutland, you can save a lot of time by flying directly instead of via Copenhagen – and vice versa, if you come from Greenland, you avoid the hassle in Copenhagen, because the airport in Nuuk does not yet have a security approval, so you can switch directly to other flights in Kastrup.
The route opened last summer in a so-called codeshare collaboration between the Aarhusian travel agency Ruby Rejser and Air Greenland, but this year it is only Air Greenland that operates the route.
Challenges solved
Precisely this has solved many of last year’s challenges on the IT side, check-in, boarding, different levels of service in the cabin and, not least, baggage handling at the two airports. So the 105 passengers from Aalborg on Tuesday afternoon had quite a good trip to Nuuk, where everything went according to the book – like that.
The plane was delayed by a quarter of an hour in departure – allegedly because there was no coffee on board. It was an excuse everyone could understand, because you have to have coffee.
Airseven provided the cabin crew’s dream team, who expertly created a good atmosphere and good mood in the cabin, Captain Nørgaard told the many tourist passengers well about what they could see during the flight – and even though violent crosswinds created turbulence during the landing, everything went according to the book, and the plane landed 20 minutes early in Nuuk.
Tight space
The route is operated by the Danish airline Airseven, which has the same parent company as Ruby Rejser. The company flies with a Boeing 737-800 with room for 189 passengers – and this is perhaps the biggest weakness of the summer route.
With over 12,500 aircraft, the aircraft is one of the world’s best-selling aircraft – and the airlines are probably happier with the aircraft type than the passengers. Because there is not much space – especially if you are used to the large conditions on Air Greenland’s Tuukkaq.
Airseven is owned by the Danish travel group Travelheart Family, which took over Ruby Rejser in January this year – and this is probably one of the reasons why the travel agency has given up flying tourists to Greenland itself. On the other hand, there is a close collaboration between Air Greenland and Ruby Rejser, which has secured a good portion of the tickets on the summer route between Nuuk and Aalborg, the Greenlandic airline informed Sermitsiaq in May.
The route between Nuuk and Aalborg flies every Tuesday until 1 September.
