Nuuk Airport These well-grounded arguments for preserving the status quo pose a problem for the Government of Greenland, which oversees the development of the airport network through "Mittarfeqarfiit", the airport administration authority. More than a quarter of Greenland's population lives in Nuuk, with the majority of the important institutions in the country located in the city, and the need to change planes at Kangerlussuaq is costly and time-consuming for passengers, especially for groups using larger long-distance charter planes. The final destination of most travellers to Greenland is Nuuk, and for them it does not help that Kangerlussuaq has better weather. They could
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