Posted on 06/23/2022 10:20:49 PM PDT by libh8er
Today Air Greenland passengers were treated to a very scenic journey around Greenland and Iceland. Unfortunately they ended up exactly where they started, which wasn’t the plan.
Air Greenland operates a single wide body aircraft, which generally flies between Kangerlussuaq, Greenland (SFJ), and Copenhagen, Denmark (CPH). This service to & from Greenland’s largest airport is one of the primary links for both passengers and cargo to get to the region. This ~2,200 mile flight usually takes under five hours in each direction.
Air Greenland has a single wide body jet, an Airbus A330-200, which is roughly 24 years old and has the registration code OY-GRN (Air Greenland will soon be replacing this with a new Airbus A330-800neo). Well, this service didn’t operate as planned today, as noted by @sheajc.
Today (Tuesday, June 21, 2022), Air Greenland’s flight from Copenhagen didn’t quite stick to its schedule. The flight departed as it was supposed to, and the first four hours of the journey were uneventful. Things changed when the plane began its descent toward Kangerlussuaq.
The weather conditions around Kangerlussuaq weren’t great, so the aircraft had to enter a holding pattern at around 20,000 feet, in hopes of conditions improving. After holding for over 35 minutes, the pilots attempted an approach to the airport. They got as low as 2,500 feet, but due to the bad conditions, the decision was made to abort the landing and divert.
Unfortunately in this case the closest suitable diversion point that could handle the A330 was Keflavik Airport in Iceland (KEF). As you’d expect, the plane had enough fuel reserves for the 800+ mile flight to Iceland. When all was said and done, the plane spent over 6hr40min flying from Copenhagen to Keflavik.
However, Keflavik was just the refueling point. The plane spent a bit over an hour on the ground there, and with conditions not having improved in Greenland, the decision was made to just return to Copenhagen. So at this point the Air Greenland A330 operated a 2hr27min flight back to Copenhagen
When all was said and done, the plane landed back in Copenhagen over 10 hours after its departure. Talk about a long flight to nowhere! And this was on Greenland’s National Day no less! On the plus side, if you’re going to be flying for 10+ hours to nowhere, this is at least a beautiful part of the world in which to do so.
Bottom line Air Greenland’s “flagship” route between Copenhagen and Kangerlussuaq was quite eventful today. The flight operated all the way to Greenland, but due to weather conditions there, the plane wasn’t able to land. The decision was then made to divert to Iceland, and after refueling, the plane simply returned to Copenhagen.
Talk about quite a flight to nowhere…
And this was an article to nowhere.
So do they get the miles for the trip, or do they count the miles from point A to point A = 0?
Interesting.
Lol
They just go 1 mile South and 1 mile east and 1 mile north and they are back where they started.
As are most.
Don’t worry. There will be plenty of articles for you to complain about while doing really NOTHING to change things.
You’ll vote for Rs??!? WOW!!! That’ll change everything!!
It even stopped the coup!! And the cities burning!! And the statues tumbling!!
It won’t stop the burning of cities on the feminist “day of rage” over R v W coming soon
FIGHTING BACK is in order
The way they did during the Revolutionary war.
Washington didn’t type the enemy to death.
Amen Brother.
the lack of fight is the reason the Dems have walked all over the country the last 60 years.
It’s almost a time where it’s us or them that needs to Whig out. They will kill us if given the chance.
The good news is that it didn’t take 10+ hours to read.
Think I’ll now go watch a show about nothing.
There was a Twilight Zone episode about a plane that flies around forever with its passengers.
I think I’m ready to board.
Ben Schlappig is writing for his Middle School paper, yes?
I suspect the airline still lost the luggage.
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