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Kulusuk Airport


Mittarfik Kulusuk


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Kulusuk Airport, terminal

  • IATA: KUS

  • ICAO: BGKK

Summary
Airport typePublic
Operator
Greenland Airport Authority
(Mittarfeqarfiit)
Serves
Kulusuk, Greenland
Elevation AMSL
117 ft / 36 m
Coordinates
65°34′25″N 037°07′25″W / 65.57361°N 37.12361°W / 65.57361; -37.12361Coordinates: 65°34′25″N 037°07′25″W / 65.57361°N 37.12361°W / 65.57361; -37.12361
WebsiteKulusuk Airport
Map


BGKK is located in Greenland

BGKK

BGKK



Location in Greenland


Runways











Direction
Length
Surface
m
ft
11/29
1,199
3,934
Gravel
Statistics (2012)


Passengers14,738
Source: Danish AIS[1]

Kulusuk Airport (Greenlandic: Mittarfik Kulusuk) (IATA: KUS, ICAO: BGKK) is an airport in Kulusuk, a settlement on an island of the same name off the shore of the North Atlantic in the Sermersooq municipality in southeastern Greenland.




Contents





  • 1 Airlines and destinations


  • 2 Bottlenecks


  • 3 Facilities


  • 4 Transfers


  • 5 History


  • 6 Future


  • 7 Accidents and incidents


  • 8 Photographs


  • 9 References


  • 10 External links




Airlines and destinations








AirlinesDestinations

Air Greenland 		Nuuk, Tasiilaq, Nerlerit Inaat

Air Iceland Connect 		Reykjavík


Bottlenecks




Air Greenland Bell 212 helicopter approaching Kulusuk Airport on the way from Tasiilaq




International terminal, permanent display of photographs by Fiann Paul


Unlike the heliport in Tasiilaq on the nearby Ammassalik Island, the airport in Kulusuk can serve STOL aircraft, thus functioning as a mini-hub for Tasiilaq.[2]




Air Greenland de Havilland Canada Dash 7, "Papikkaaq", serving the Kulusuk-Nuuk route across the Greenland ice sheet


Given the increasing number of passengers travelling through the airport due to connections provided by Air Iceland, both domestic to Nerlerit Inaat Airport and international to Iceland, the number of fixed-schedule helicopter flights to Tasiilaq[3] is not sufficient to cover demand, due to a single Bell 212 helicopter of Air Greenland stationed at the airport.[4]


Before Air Greenland took over Air Alpha, flights had been operated on-demand by two helicopters. The problem is acknowledged by Air Greenland, however the final decision regarding expansion belongs to the Government of Greenland.[4]



Facilities




Air Greenland "Papikkaaq" on the tarmac under the Qalorujoorneq mountain


Kulusuk Airport has in corporation with Air Iceland installed de-icing facilities since the winter 2014-2015.[5] The terminal building hosts a small cafeteria, and a duty-free stand in the departures/arrivals hall. Accessible restrooms are available.



Transfers


Access to the departures hall is limited due to the need to screen purchases at the duty-free. Passengers are only allowed to pass through the hall immediately before boarding, resulting in a lack of separation between arriving and departing passengers in the waiting check-in hall. Most arrivals and departures are synchronized in time to facilitate transfers between Air Iceland passengers and Air Greenland passengers bound for Nuuk and Tasiilaq (and to several settlements in the area from there).


The waiting hall is not sufficient to accommodate all passengers, resulting in a pre-boarding chaos.[6] Most flights are delayed due to the policy of deferring departures until all transferring passengers have been distributed to their respective flights, one flight at a time.[citation needed]



History


The airstrip was built by the US defense in 1956, in order to support a Distant Early Warning Line station. The defense station was closed in 1991. Like some other airports in Greenland it was not built at a location suitable for civilian travel, i.e. not near the local major settlement.



Future


There are political discussions on building a new airport at Tasiilaq, a major settlement in the region, and to close the Kulusuk Airport.[7]



Accidents and incidents


  • On 2 July 1972, Douglas C-47B F-WSGU of Rousseau Aviation was damaged beyond economic repair in an accident.[8]

  • On 20 April 1985, a problem was encountered with the additional fuel tanks that an Fokker F27 Friendship (registered YN-BZF) had been fitted with for the delivery flight to Aeronica from Europe to Managua, Nicaragua. Augusto C. Sandino International Airport. The pilots decided to return to Kulusuk Airport in Greenland, the place of their most recent fuel stop, but failed to do so. The aircraft crashed on a snow-covered strip, killing two of the five occupants.[9]


Photographs





  • Terminal







  • de Havilland Canada Dash-8 106 of Air Iceland







  • Bell and Lynx helicopters







  • Approaching Kulusuk Airport from the east





References




  1. ^ Greenland AIP for BGKK – Kulusuk Airport from Naviair





  2. ^ Air Greenland destination overview, with a photograph of the runway Archived 6 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine


  3. ^ "Booking system". Air Greenland. Archived from the original on 22 April 2010. Retrieved 9 June 2010..mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output .citation qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-maintdisplay:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em


  4. ^ ab "Utilfredse Air Greenland-kunder". Sermitsiaq (in Danish). 12 April 2010. Retrieved 17 May 2010.


  5. ^ "Defective equipment costs Air Greenland millions". Sermitsiaq. 18 November 2008. Retrieved 17 May 2010.


  6. ^ O'Carroll, Etain (2005). Greenland and the Arctic. Lonely Planet. p. 206. ISBN 1-74059-095-3.


  7. ^ Kangerlussuaq lukkes (in Danish)


  8. ^ "F-WGSU Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 5 September 2010.


  9. ^ http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19850420-1




External links




  • Official site






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