Greenland Airport Authority

Greenland Airports

Type	State owned
Industry	Airport operator
Founded	1988
Headquarters	Nuuk, Greenland
Area served	Greenland
Key people	Jens Lauridsen (CEO)[1] Niels Grosen (Operations Director)
Revenue	DKK 244 million (2003)
Operating income	DKK -31 million (2003)
Net income	DKK -127 million (2005)
Number of employees	391 (2003)
Parent	Greenlandic Ministry of Health and Infrastructure
Website	www.mit.gl

The Greenland Airports (Greenlandic: Mittarfeqarfiit, Danish: Grønlands Lufthavne) is the national airport operator of the airports in Greenland, in charge of airport upgrades and associated fees and taxes in all airports in Greenland.^[2]

Owned by the Government of Greenland, it operates 13 airports, all of which can accommodate fixed-wing STOL operations year-round, and two can handle airliners. It also operates a large, countrywide network of heliports, of which 8 are primary heliports, while the rest are considered helistops.

Mittarfeqarfiit semi-truck in Uummannaq

The company employs over 400 people, mainly staffing the main airports. Most of the helistops are staffed by Air Greenland. Greenland Airports also owns two airport hotels, at Kangerlussuaq and Narsarsuaq. It also operates an AFIS school at Narsarsuaq. Greenland Airports is supervised by the Danish Transport Authority regarding safety rules and other regulations.

For all the airports operated by the authority, see the List of airports in Greenland.

International airports

Air Iceland is the only non-Greenlandic airline providing scheduled international connections to Greenland

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