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Oct 14, 2022 (newstodate): Greenland can expect to see the opening for international traffic at its new capital airport at Nuuk by the end of 2024. But the issue of regularity remains a topic.
   While the country's current international airport at Kangerlussuaq, in the south of Greenland, is closed for traffic due to weather conditions only few days of the year, Nuuk Airport is often shrouded in mist and fog as well as experiencing strong winds forcing temporary closure - which was indeed the case this summer.
   In 2011, newstodate reported that Air Greenland had provided an analysis to prove that weather conditions will have a strong impact on the regularity of the Atlantic flight operations if the airport is moved to Nuuk.  
   -According to Air Greenland, the Atlantic traffic at Kangerlussuaq is only down a few times per year due to bad weather, while Atlantic traffic at an airport at Nuuk would be impacted between 18 and 37 times per year, entailing heavy costs for the carrier as flights are then returned to Denmark, the story read.
   Now the construction works on the new Nuuk Int'l Airport are  moving ahead, but discussions still abound in the media on the expected uptime of the coming new airport.
   According to Greenlandic media, new equipment including ILS CAT III C would secure traffic by up to 100 percent if implemented; but the airport company admits that this would require further extensive and expensive preconditions that are outside the current budgets - and therefore unfeasible.
   However, estimates - and hopes - are that the use of larger aircraft types, a wider runway and the implementation of new navigation and runway lighting systems will eventually outbalance the adversities to secure a higher regularity of flights than in today's situation.