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Nov 04, 2014 (newstodate): After a suspension of scheduled flights between Greenland and Denmark, Greenland Express hopes to be back in the air by either late November or early December 2014.
-The timing will depend on the final decisions by the Danish Transport Authority and Greenland's government, says Gert Brask, Greenland Express CEO.
-The company is now moving its registration from Iceland to Denmark, new potent investors are backing our airline, and talks are going on with providers of aircraft capacity as we also change to Airbus A320 from the Fokker 100 earlier used, which required the intermediate stop at Iceland on the flights between Greenland and Denmark.
-Our website including the booking facility is being readied, we are seeking membership of the Danish Travel Guarantee Fund securing passengers' rights, and we are working on adding feeder lines in Greenland to connect to the country's Atlantic airports at Kangerlussuaq and Narsarssuaq.
-As for domestic feeder lines, plans are to set up flights to several smaller airports in Greenland capable of handling fixed-wing aircraft, and we are currently evaluating services with either Dornier 228 or Fokker 50 aircraft depending on payload, runway requirements and other conditions.
-We are, however, reluctant to add feeder flights to Nuuk given this airport's special weather conditions causing frequent down-time during the winter period.
-All in all, things are moving forward in this highly complex project and we are keen to await solutions to all pertinent issues before reopening traffic, says Mr Brask.
-The timing will depend on the final decisions by the Danish Transport Authority and Greenland's government, says Gert Brask, Greenland Express CEO.
-The company is now moving its registration from Iceland to Denmark, new potent investors are backing our airline, and talks are going on with providers of aircraft capacity as we also change to Airbus A320 from the Fokker 100 earlier used, which required the intermediate stop at Iceland on the flights between Greenland and Denmark.
-Our website including the booking facility is being readied, we are seeking membership of the Danish Travel Guarantee Fund securing passengers' rights, and we are working on adding feeder lines in Greenland to connect to the country's Atlantic airports at Kangerlussuaq and Narsarssuaq.
-As for domestic feeder lines, plans are to set up flights to several smaller airports in Greenland capable of handling fixed-wing aircraft, and we are currently evaluating services with either Dornier 228 or Fokker 50 aircraft depending on payload, runway requirements and other conditions.
-We are, however, reluctant to add feeder flights to Nuuk given this airport's special weather conditions causing frequent down-time during the winter period.
-All in all, things are moving forward in this highly complex project and we are keen to await solutions to all pertinent issues before reopening traffic, says Mr Brask.