Ilulissat Airport
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Ilulissat Airport Mittarfik Ilulissat Ilulissat Lufthavn |
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner | Mittarfeqarfiit | ||||||||||
| Serves | Ilulissat and Disko Bay, Greenland | ||||||||||
| Location | Ilulissat, Qaasuitsup Municipality | ||||||||||
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| Elevation AMSL | 95 ft / 29 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 69°14′36″N 051°03′26″W / 69.24333°N 51.05722°WCoordinates: 69°14′36″N 051°03′26″W / 69.24333°N 51.05722°W | ||||||||||
| Website | www.mit.gl/ilulissat | ||||||||||
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 JAV
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Source: AIP
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| Passengers | 83,930 |
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Ilulissat Airport (Greenlandic: Mittarfik Ilulissat, Danish: Ilulissat Lufthavn); IATA: JAV, ICAO: BGJN) is a minor international airport serving Ilulissat, Greenland, the entire Disko Bay Region, the North and West Greenland. It is the 59th largest airport in the Nordic countries with 83,000 passengers in 2012 and is the second airport built in Greenland for civilian travel partially funded by the EU (former EC) Structural Funds and Cohesion Fund. It is the third-busiest airport in Greenland, and by far one of the busiest for international travel in Greenland.
The airport is located north-east of Ilulissat, just 2.8 kilometres (1.7 mi) of city centre. It was built in 1983, replacing the heliport.
The airport is the main hub out of three used by Air Greenland.
Air Greenland operates government contract flights to villages in the Disko Bay area. These mostly cargo flights are not featured in the timetable, although they can be pre-booked. Departure times for these flights as specified during booking are by definition approximate, with the settlement service optimized on the fly depending on local demand for a given day. Settlement flights in the Disko Bay and Aasiaat archipelago areas are operated only during winter and spring. During summer and autumn, communication between settlements is by sea only, serviced by Diskoline.
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