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Dec 22, 2015 (newstodate): As the year 2015 is nearing its end, prospects for the launch of new carriers to served Greenland remain dim.
Both Greenland Express and Aluu Airlines have announced plans for launch of flights in the new year, but newstodate's call to the Danish aviation authority Trafikstyrelsen confirms that neither of them have so far filed any applications or requests and no transaction by either of the two are currently under negotiation.
In October, Greenland Express told of hopes to start flights in 2016 between Greenland's two Atlantic airports and Billund and Copenhagen in Denmark as well as Iceland and possibly also the Faeroe Islands, based on delivery of the first two Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft by Q2, 2016, and the network would then be gradually expanded as more aircraft arrive in 2017-18, with Canadian destinations Toronto and Halifax on the tentative route map, as well as London, Paris and Berlin.
Aluu Airlines first handed in its application for an AOC in December 2014 with plans for introduction of Airbus A321 services between Greenland and Denmark as well as turbo-prop feeder services between Kangerlussuaq and destinations in Greenland.
Initially, the launch of services was slated for June 1, 2015, but the start was postponed, the company said in March 2015, allowing for adjustments to the company structure as required for the issuance of the carrier's AOC - and the carrier last said in September 2015 that it would be ready to take to the air from the start of 2016.
While neither of these two project seem close to a take-off by early 2016, it seems that so far plans for new Greenlandic carrier so far remain - in the air..
Both Greenland Express and Aluu Airlines have announced plans for launch of flights in the new year, but newstodate's call to the Danish aviation authority Trafikstyrelsen confirms that neither of them have so far filed any applications or requests and no transaction by either of the two are currently under negotiation.
In October, Greenland Express told of hopes to start flights in 2016 between Greenland's two Atlantic airports and Billund and Copenhagen in Denmark as well as Iceland and possibly also the Faeroe Islands, based on delivery of the first two Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft by Q2, 2016, and the network would then be gradually expanded as more aircraft arrive in 2017-18, with Canadian destinations Toronto and Halifax on the tentative route map, as well as London, Paris and Berlin.
Aluu Airlines first handed in its application for an AOC in December 2014 with plans for introduction of Airbus A321 services between Greenland and Denmark as well as turbo-prop feeder services between Kangerlussuaq and destinations in Greenland.
Initially, the launch of services was slated for June 1, 2015, but the start was postponed, the company said in March 2015, allowing for adjustments to the company structure as required for the issuance of the carrier's AOC - and the carrier last said in September 2015 that it would be ready to take to the air from the start of 2016.
While neither of these two project seem close to a take-off by early 2016, it seems that so far plans for new Greenlandic carrier so far remain - in the air..