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Mar 20, 2019 (newstodate): Air Greenland leans back on positive results in 2018 with the best economic result since 2015, and record-high passenger figures totaling 43,000 - the highest volume ever.
But lurking in the horizon is the need for considering the future wide-body capacity as the carrier's single Airbus A330 is getting close to retirement age after 21 years in the air, of which 16 with Air Greenland that took in the aircraft in 2003.
The decision on Air Greenland's future replacement of the aging Airbus A330-200 will come as the country's airports infrastructure matures with the opening of new Transatlantic airports to replace Kangerlussuaq that is today the only airport with the capacity of handling the traffic between Greenland and Denmark.
But lurking in the horizon is the need for considering the future wide-body capacity as the carrier's single Airbus A330 is getting close to retirement age after 21 years in the air, of which 16 with Air Greenland that took in the aircraft in 2003.
The decision on Air Greenland's future replacement of the aging Airbus A330-200 will come as the country's airports infrastructure matures with the opening of new Transatlantic airports to replace Kangerlussuaq that is today the only airport with the capacity of handling the traffic between Greenland and Denmark.