Ukkusissat Heliport Explained

Ukkusissat Heliport
Iata:JUK
Icao:BGUT
Lid:UKK
Type:Public
Operator:Greenland Airport Authority
(Mittarfeqarfiit)
City-Served:Ukkusissat, Greenland
Elevation-F:223
Coordinates:71.0553°N -51.8836°W
Pushpin Map:Greenland
Pushpin Label:BGUT
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Greenland
Website:Ukkusissat Heliport
Metric-Rwy:Y
H1-Number:1
H1-Length-M:15
H1-Surface:Stones
Footnotes:Source: Danish AIS

Ukkusissat Heliport is a heliport in Ukkusissat, a village in the Uummannaq Fjord system in the Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. The heliport is considered a helistop, and is served by Air Greenland as part of a government contract. There are no facilities at the helistop; check-in is administered in the Pilersuisoq communal store, the central point of the settlement.

On the way from Uummannaq Heliport, Air Greenland helicopters fly alongside the southern and western wall of Appat Island, to then pass above the narrow Appat Ikerat strait between Appat and the smaller Salleq Island, a high, standalone flooded mountain.

Airlines and destinations

Air Greenland operates government contract flights to villages in the Uummannaq Fjord area. These mostly cargo flights are not featured in the timetable, although they can be pre-booked.[1] Departure times for these flights as specified during booking are by definition approximate, with the settlement service optimized on the fly depending on local demand for a given day.

Notes and References

  1. http://airgreenland.com/information/bestillingafrejse/rejseprodukter Air Greenland, fare system rules