Back in the Good Old Days…
Kangerlussuaq to Nuuk – We’re almost in Nuuk but we just had a chance to talk to the pilots.
One of them has been flying the Arctic for decades. When he heard we were from Canada, he started reminiscing about ‘the good old days’ when there were direct flights between Nuuk, Greenland and Iqaluit, Nunavut in Canada.
He tells us the flight lasted about two hours in those days and laughs out loud when he hears about our three-day, four country odyssey to get to Nuuk.
“It’s too bad,” he said. “But I remember those flights and the passenger load was only running 40 per cent. No airline can run flights at that capacity today.”
Makes sense I guess, but it doesn’t make it any less bizarre that to get from Montreal to Nuuk, you have to fly half way round the world to Europe and then circle almost all the way back to where you started from.
All to reach a place that’s literally in Canada’s backyard.
Go figure.
