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Nov 08, 2022 (newstodate): The timetable for the delivery and early life of Air Greenland's coming new Airbus A330-800neo long-haul aircraft is now shaping up.
   The aircraft will be officially handed over to Air Greenland at the Airbus facility at Toulouse on November 30, 2022, and will lift off on its first flight to Greenland on December 7.
   The first period with Air Greenland will be spent on training and familiarization, and the Airbus A330-800neo is then tentatively scheduled to launch commercial operations between Kangerlussuaq and Copenhagen on March 27, 2023, as well as operating the monthly charter flight between Copenhagen and Pittufik, Thule Air Force Base, with the first operation on April 19, 2023.
   The new aircraft will replace the airline’s aging Airbus A330-200 to secure operations between Greenland and Denmark, offering the capacity of lifting up to 257 passengers over a range of 15,090 km, compared to 250 passengers on the A330-200 flying up to 13,450 km.
   When Greenland's coming new transatlantic airport at Nuuk and Ilulissat are opened, the aircraft will also introduce potentials for new routes between Greenland and North America.
   As part of the process, Air Greenland's current and only wide-body aircraft, the Airbus A330-200 was put up for sale in September 2019 under a contract with Skytech-AIC marketing the aircraft, manufactured in 1998 and serving with Air Greenland since 2002.      
   By then, the aircraft will be near the end of the service life of its PW4000 power plants.
    The Airbus A330-200 will be available for delivery to a new customer in March 2023.