Air Greenland's Record-Breaking Turboprop Flight - A330 / A340

Air Greenland's Record-Breaking Turboprop Flight

Ben Schlappig — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:20:36 +0000

Air Greenland was making headlines a few weeks ago for their transatlantic turboprop flights, but they’ve just operated a flight that’s in a league of its own.

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J. Bols — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 20:27:24 +0000

I read about that flight. I wonder how many air buffs went into it thinking how interesting it would be, before realising how loud, bumpy and miserable it would turn out to be!

James McDermott — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 14:57:56 +0000

Naive question but might turboprops make something of a comeback with the need for planes that can do longer routes with fewer passengers and still make a profit? I know the A321xxx is moving into that territory but would costs be low enough? I can see people going for a (much?) longer flight if the price were low enough and seats comfortable/roomy enough. I have a somewhat silly vision in my head of an updated Dash-7 (to satisfy ETOPS) doing this. For a jet version, maybe a BAE-146 with updated, more efficient engines, larger fuel tanks and possibly reduced pax capacity. Just crazy ideas that've run through my head after reading articles predicting the number of de facto long, thin routes skyrocketting as a result of Covid.

George Olson — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 00:12:44 +0000

1960 long flight with engines going in and out of syncronasation on a TEAL - later Air NZ Super Connie from Nandi to Auckland . Just as you were ready to drift off all 4 would sync and really shake it up. 168 got lucky and crossed the Indian Ocean in a QUANTAS Electra from Perth to Cocus Keeling then to Maritius.1st hop was 8 and 2nd was 10 as I remember. Long slog but no piston sync problems. I was a teenager and Mom raised the arm rests and lay across the seats while I stretched out on the floor. We we're lucky because Sud Afrikanse operated the route with DC7's which toook looonger and 4 big radials needing to be synced. Friends of took DC7 a year later and I watched the takeoff. Boy was that slooow they used pretty much the whole runway and it was the slowest climb out I have ever saw.

Pierre — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 15:18:55 +0000

@ Al, It can't be treated as "domestic" because of the stop in LAX (not only because of US insisting on transit pax needing to enter and leave US, but because of passengers mix onboard, some going to LAX). Stop in LAX is changing, though see Ben's article recently. Besides, France has always had a "mixed" arrangement regarding all flights from "DOM/TOM" (French overseas communities), with passengers arriving in France needing to go through customs (not Immigration) due to different taxation regimes in some overseas areas, nothing heavy handed but existing.

Al — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 20:41:31 +0000

Is (was?) AF’s (or Tahiti Nui’s, I can’t remember which) flight Paris to Papeete (w/a stop at LAX) treated as “domestic”? I have been on a Longyearbyen to Oslo n/s, and it was treated as domestic. I think the flight was 6 hours, more or less.

Ben Schlappig — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 15:47:54 +0000

@ Michael -- The A330 flies out of Kangerlussuaq rather than Nuuk, as the former has a much longer runway.

Miko — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 15:42:24 +0000

If the runway is only 3100 feet, how did the a330 that used to fly there operate? I might have misread what was flying there before

Azamaraal — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 01:47:38 +0000

@Pierre You are right - Vanguard was TCA regional. They were flying Constellations and North Stars TATL. Definitely flew TCA Viscounts and Vanguards twixt St. Johns and Toronto into the 70's. Viscount was a regional and I thought the Vanguard was long range but just discovered it was also medium range and just a bigger variant. The Britannia was definitely trans Pacific (Canadian Pacific Airlines).

Pierre — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 01:02:32 +0000

@ Azamaraal: Vickers Vanguard ???? I don't think so...Maybe Trans Canada Airlines, but I doubt it.