Qaarsut Airport
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Qaarsut Airport Mittarfik Qaarsut Uummannaq/Qaarsut Airport |
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Qaarsut Airport
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
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Greenland Airport Authority (Mittarfeqarfiit) |
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| Serves | Qaarsut and Uummannaq, Greenland | ||||||||||
| Location | Qaarsut | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 289 ft / 88 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 70°44′03″N 052°41′46″W / 70.73417°N 52.69611°WCoordinates: 70°44′03″N 052°41′46″W / 70.73417°N 52.69611°W | ||||||||||
| Website | Qaarsut Lufthavne | ||||||||||
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 BGUQ
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Source: Danish AIS
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| Passengers | 7,105 |
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Qaarsut Airport (Greenlandic: Mittarfik Qaarsut) (IATA: JQA, ICAO: BGUQ) is an airport in Qaarsut, a settlement on the Nuussuaq Peninsula in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northwestern Greenland. It is a primary airport with a gravel runway, capable of serving STOL aircraft of Air Greenland in all seasons. There is a small cafeteria in the tiny arrivals/departures hall. It is connected by a 4 km (2.5 mi) gravel road to Qaarsut and is 13.5 nautical miles (25.0 km; 15.5 mi) northwest of Uummannaq.
Qaarsut airport was inaugurated on 29 September 1999, with the purpose of serving the much larger neighboring town of Uummannaq, 13.5 NM (25.0 km; 15.5 mi) southeast of the airport, located on an island of the same name in the south-central part of Uummannaq Fjord. The island−merely 23 km (14 mi) away in a direct line across Sarqarput Strait−is too small and rocky to host an airport of sufficient size to accommodate fixed-wing aircraft of Air Greenland.
The airport thus functions as a mini-hub for Uummannaq, with the terminal building labelled 'Uummannaq', regardless of its actual location, registration, documentation, and existing booking systems.
The decision to build the airport in Qaarsut was intended to solve the bottleneck on the Ilulissat-Uummannaq route (164 km), until then operated by Air Greenland with Sikorsky S-61N helicopters. Acquired in 1965, they are the oldest machines in the fleet of the airline, still in operation year-round in southern Greenland and during wintertime in the Disko Bay area south of Qaarsut.
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