Nuuk Airport An expansion of the runway in that direction would require relocation of the connecting road, which climbs under the runway scarp. An often-discussed extension of the runway in the other direction would have brought the endpoint close to Qinngorput, the newest district of Nuuk, rapidly expanding in the late 2000s. There are plans of extending the runway to . There are also suggestions to extend it to or (the longest possible) which would allow direct flights to Denmark, but only with small jet planes, needing several daily flights. The extension issue is a long-standing topic of ongoing controversy in Greenland.
Indonesian future capital city proposal Jakarta by reviving the idea of relocating its political and administrative center elsewhere. In 2010, debate continued about the creation of a new capital city that would be separated from the urban, economic, and commercial center of the country. Former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono supported the idea to create a new political and administrative center of Indonesia, due to Jakarta's environmental and overpopulation problems. Bandung, the planned capital of the Dutch colonial era, was ruled out however, since the capital of West Java province itself is currently overpopulated and suffering ecological breakdown. In April 2017, the Joko Widodo administration contemplated