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Feb 24, 2014 (newstodate): Not exactly a smooth sailing, Greenland's coming new airline venture Greenland Express is now approaching a first lift-off.
-Right now we are concluding the negotiations over ground handling in Greenland and on Iceland, our website is coming up by next week at the latest, opening up for bookings, says Gert Brask, Greenland Express CEO.
-All our flights between Aalborg and Copenhagen in Denmark and Narsarsuak and Kangerlussuaq in Greenland will be routed via Keflavik, on Iceland, and we have commercial rights to take up passengers in Iceland on all flights in both directions.
-From the outset, Denim Air will operated for Greenland Express on an ACMI contract, later to turn into a dry-lease contract as we are able to provide our own cabin and cockpit crews.
-We are initially focusing on the tourist segments as well as business travelers in connection to the mining projects in southern Greenland. So we will not provide own domestic flights to and from our two destinations in Greenland, but we have an agreement with an operator to provide traffic opportunities to and from Narsarsuak. As for onward travel from our flights into and out of Kangerlussuaq, passengers will need to book Air Greenland flights separately.
-As for cargo, we have already signed up with seafood exporters in Greenland that will basically take up our limited capacity, and the same holds true for cargo out of Denmark. So we will not set up a specific cargo department from the start, or contract a cargo GSA, says Mr Brask.
Greenland Express now prepares to start operations in connection to the start of the coming summer season.
-Right now we are concluding the negotiations over ground handling in Greenland and on Iceland, our website is coming up by next week at the latest, opening up for bookings, says Gert Brask, Greenland Express CEO.
-All our flights between Aalborg and Copenhagen in Denmark and Narsarsuak and Kangerlussuaq in Greenland will be routed via Keflavik, on Iceland, and we have commercial rights to take up passengers in Iceland on all flights in both directions.
-From the outset, Denim Air will operated for Greenland Express on an ACMI contract, later to turn into a dry-lease contract as we are able to provide our own cabin and cockpit crews.
-We are initially focusing on the tourist segments as well as business travelers in connection to the mining projects in southern Greenland. So we will not provide own domestic flights to and from our two destinations in Greenland, but we have an agreement with an operator to provide traffic opportunities to and from Narsarsuak. As for onward travel from our flights into and out of Kangerlussuaq, passengers will need to book Air Greenland flights separately.
-As for cargo, we have already signed up with seafood exporters in Greenland that will basically take up our limited capacity, and the same holds true for cargo out of Denmark. So we will not set up a specific cargo department from the start, or contract a cargo GSA, says Mr Brask.
Greenland Express now prepares to start operations in connection to the start of the coming summer season.