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Aug 23, 2013 (newstodate): Pending firm facts about Greenland's trumpeted project for a low-cost start-up carrier, media are left to piece together small fragments of information.
Greenland Express still claims that they are now ready to publish timetables, rates and routes any time now, but a call to the Danish aviation authority Trafikstyrelsen confirms that they are not handling any application for approval of a new carrier to ply the skies between Denmark and Greenland.
-We had an earlier application that resulted in our request for further information. Since then we have not received anything and there is currently no case under preparation from your side, says a source within Trafikstyrelsen who requires anonymity.
In the meantime doubts have also been cast over which company is actually to provide the flight operations.
The Dutch Denim Air has been widely expected to provide this service, but this operator does not fly the Airbus A319 aircraft depicted on Greenland Express' facebook page and that has been named as the coming aircraft type by the driving force behind the project, Gert Brask.
To add further confusion to the jigsaw puzzle, Gert Brask and other people from the project were recently in Toulouse - not to visit Airbus, but ATR that does not, however, produce aircraft capable of flying the distance between Denmark and Greenland even adding a stop-over at Iceland.
And lately, Mr Brask has placed a photo shot on the facebook page from a visit to a cockpit - not of an Airbus A319, but an Embraer E-190!
So the pieces still do not match...
Greenland Express still claims that they are now ready to publish timetables, rates and routes any time now, but a call to the Danish aviation authority Trafikstyrelsen confirms that they are not handling any application for approval of a new carrier to ply the skies between Denmark and Greenland.
-We had an earlier application that resulted in our request for further information. Since then we have not received anything and there is currently no case under preparation from your side, says a source within Trafikstyrelsen who requires anonymity.
In the meantime doubts have also been cast over which company is actually to provide the flight operations.
The Dutch Denim Air has been widely expected to provide this service, but this operator does not fly the Airbus A319 aircraft depicted on Greenland Express' facebook page and that has been named as the coming aircraft type by the driving force behind the project, Gert Brask.
To add further confusion to the jigsaw puzzle, Gert Brask and other people from the project were recently in Toulouse - not to visit Airbus, but ATR that does not, however, produce aircraft capable of flying the distance between Denmark and Greenland even adding a stop-over at Iceland.
And lately, Mr Brask has placed a photo shot on the facebook page from a visit to a cockpit - not of an Airbus A319, but an Embraer E-190!
So the pieces still do not match...