- A new international airport has opened in Greenland, improving access to one of the country’s most popular tourist destinations.
- The airport is located on Greenland’s west coast near the town of Ilulissat, famous for its Unesco World Heritage-listed icefjord.
- The site features a 2,200-metre runway and a 5,000-square-metre terminal building.
- Its first international arrival, operated by Air Greenland on an Airbus A330neo, left Copenhagen at 10am on Thursday and was scheduled to arrive 11.40am local time.
- It comes after Greenland opened its first commercial international airport two years ago in its capital, Nuuk.
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