Air Greenland Airbus A330-200 in Fort McMurray, Alberta! (4K)
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- On January 27th, this Air Greenland Airbus A330 flew into Fort McMurray, Alberta, operating a charter flight for the Arctic Winter Games.
The Arctic Winter Games are a multi-sport and cultural event for Indigenous peoples living around the Arctic Circle, and have been taking place every two years since 1970.
This year, the Games are being held in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo in Northeastern Alberta, with participants coming from as far away as northern Scandinavia and Greenland, hence this special flight to Fort McMurray.
Now, Air Greenland and Fort McMurray are two things I never expected to say in the same sentence. They're one of the most unique airlines in the world, and their operation is fascinating.
Air Greenland's A330 usually flies exclusively between Greenland and Denmark, so seeing it in Canada is an exceptionally rare event. Add Fort McMurray of all places into the mix, and you can see why I had to make the trip up from Calgary to see it!
This is one of the largest aircraft to ever land in Fort McMurray, and a 7500 foot runway plus an A330 was bound to make for quite the interesting arrival. The plane stayed overnight and left the following morning back to Greenland.
Enjoy this very rare, all-red A330!
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FLIGHT INFORMATION
Airline: Air Greenland (GRL/GL)
Aircraft: Airbus A330-200 (A332)
Flight Number: GL6775/GL930
Livery: Standard
Engines: 2x Pratt & Whitney PW4168A
Registration: OY-GRN
Route: Kangerlussuaq (SFJ) - Fort McMurray (YMM) - Kangerlussuaq (SFJ)
Callsign: GREENLAND 6775/930 heavy
Runway used: 08 (arrival), 26 (departure)
Date filmed: January 2023
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I am from Denmark and work as a pilot in Fort McMurray. So to see this OY-registered aircraft in CYMM was incredible. Thanks for sharing.
I was fortunate enough to be driving by 08 and was able to capture the plane on final as it flew overhead. Nice to have the video but I think I would have preferred to just watch.
Very beautiful livery! I bet the tower was exited to get something than a 737 or q400. Great shots Alex.
I actually know some people from my hometown that are going to the arctic winter games. I live about 6 hours away from Wood Buffalo
What an absolutely beautiful plane. The approach was so pretty!! Bet it looked even nicer in person!
Thanks for another fantastic upload my dude!
Never expected to see an a330 in my home town! thanks for catching it from another angle!
It was pretty awesome to see the plane bank for its final approach right over my house, last time we had a plane of this magnitude land here at YMM was a medical emergency landing of an AC 787 from LHR-YYC. Awesome catch, gorgeous airplane.
Never expected to see Air Greenland visiting Ft MacMurray!
Hawaiian Airlines runs its A330s between the West Coast and Kahului (OGG/PHOG), which has a 7000 foot runway.
I remember seeing a Greenland A330 in Whitehorse for the arctic winter games. I’ve also seen an AC787 land in Fort McMurray after a medical emergency. Regionally there is a longer runway a bit further north though to service the oil fields. People always said they could land 747s there apparently.
Totally awesome to see good old Norsaq on artic adventures 😊
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She sure was a beauty of an aircraft!!!
Yes, indeed. A real iconic Aircraft.
Thanks for sticking it out there in the cold to get us these great shots Alex! I remember seeing this Greenland A330 at Copenhagen airport. It's quite noticeable on the tarmac!
Hi Alex,
It's aviation videos like this that show your love & dedication to the aviation community via your CZcams channel.
Thank you for such a wonderful video and I look forward to viewing your future videos.
Sincerely, Don Mac
Thats one majestic A330 for sure. I haven't been able to see it irl, but at least I got a diecast model of it. Surely one of my favourite
Glad to see all worked out! Feel free to come back to MacAv anytime!
A beautiful takeoff !
Hi Alex, Thanks so much for posting a rare sighting and for your brilliant videography. Your different vantage points really highlighted the stunning attractiveness of this Airbus aircraft. Keep up the excellent work.
What a departure! 🏆
WOW! Thank you very much for catching this iconic Aircraft short before it was retired!🙂💛👍👍👍 I imagine you´re sitting at minus 20 degree Celsius the whole night long at this remote, lonesome Airport.💂👀 That means really Planespotting the hard way. But it was really worth it!💛
2:55 THAT NOISE.... -smack- NIICE
It was great to hear that you were in my hometown!
Glad you made the journey to capture this, Alex. That livery is stunning against the muted colours of the Albertan landscape. Hoping I can fly with Air Greenland at some point in my life!
I, too.
That was stunning!
Wow! That departure.. Wheels up in a flash. Impressive. Great vid once again cheers
Wow! Fantastic video! Thank you so much for striming all time the airplane was at Alberta's airport: from landing to takeoff and more. Congratulations!
Beautiful Plane landing in Fort McMurray. Awesome Video
Plenty of room even with a downwind landing
"Tower, do you have a sequence for landing for us?" Aw, they don't know that Fort Mac is a backwaterburg.
Great catch, Alex!
Hope you enjoyed your time in mcmurray!!!
Beautiful aircraft!
Alex, that’s amazing capture! The livery is delightful though bit of pun to me, Air ‘Greenland’ being painted deep red, the take off roll & final take off with that full throttle audio was awesome!! Wonder how you have captured the takeoff audio so clearly like a movie!!! Thank you.
Absolutely nothing in Greenland is green.
Great Job to EFC for organizing to handle A330 safely in YMM! Another Superb and rare video, Alex.
Very beautiful pictures especially in the morning 😍😍😍
That is such an awesome video and catch. Brave to Ft McMurray for hosting the games. Brilliant alex!
The most beautiful Livery EVER! ❤
Great catch Alex !!! Thank you for sharing it with us...:):):)
That was simply beautiful and amazing, well done!
Thanks Alex! Great story and video, a good decision to fly up and see it person.
Greased the landing!
One of the reasons it had time to go to Canada is that it is replaced with A330-800(OY-GKN) on it`s main route
Will Air Greenland keep this plane and use it for charters or is this just a chance that they still have it in service as the replacement is so new?
Top quality av-geeking. Thx for making it happen!
Thanks for posting eh!
Welcome to my hometown Alex! Hope you stay around for the departures next weekend.
This was awesome to watch such a .beautiful plane arrive and land in Fort McMurray... Welcome to Fort McMurray. Thank you for sharing this video.
I was there for the departure and took great shots too. Thanks for sharing.
I TRACKED THIS YESTERDAY
That livery is so catchy 👏
Beautiful video ❤
Just knew it would be for the Arctic.Winter Games. Those games are contributing to many facets of life.
Beautiful 📹
Alex you were here! wish i've met you while you were here. Welcome!
It is for transporting athletes to attend Artic Winter Games hosted in fort McMurray. Great to see some rare visitors. Welcome to YMM and fort McMurray!
Wonderful catch, well done.
A lot more work than usual for the de-icing crew! :D Great video
A female pilot and female air traffic controller too! Beautiful plane. Well done! Come back anytime!!!
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One of the last time its flying for our one and only national air line. Air Greenland bought a new Airbus A330-800neo that is replacing this older Airbus. I’m flying with it the last time on thursday❤️
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I was keeping an eye on Kangerlussuaq Airport of FR24 and I was confused to see the A330-200 going to Fort McMurray since I thought they only operated to Copenhagen. Interesting to see this is why it went here.
I wish I would have known about this arrival, I would have been able to see its approach from my home.
Beautiful
Very nice!
Fabulous! Thanks for going out of your way to share this. I wondered how Air Greenland fit this into their daily schedule to Copenhagen - were they using both this A330-200 and their new A330-800? No, according to FR24 they just seamlessly added Fort McMurray as an add-on to their Copenhagen flights. On 27th Jan OY-GRN flew CPH-SFJ-YMM and the next day flew YMM-SFJ-CPH. As for the YMM being at bit short at 7,500ft, the new airport being built at NUUK will be shorter at only 7,000 and yet they plan to do the daily CPH flight from there when it is finished. Again. Good work! Great video!
It was a special charter that has been planned long ahead. They knew when the aircraft would not be available for their normal scheduled flights and when it would return to serve those. Usually they would've probably chartered another aircraft from HiFly, Vamos Air, etc. in order operate flights beyond the Copenhagen route, but now that they have two widebodies (though it will probably only be temporarily) it's easy for them.
And considering the Copenhagen route it seems like they just use both A330s interchangeable right now, I'd assume that they want crews to slowly adapt to the changes while hoping for someone to buy this rather old A332 (which I don't really see happening any time soon tbh)
Yup Air Greenland Airbus A330-200 Is very rear too see in some Destinations across the Globe also they have there New Airbus A330-800Neo Plane in Service Alex you'll need to get shot of it anytime you Travel Man Awesome Video!!!!!
Thanks for the video! I was at the artic winter games and it was great :D
Impressive depature! Great video.
Nice! I bet ground crew and airport staff were doing a double-take seeing this beauty arrive
Fort Mac's airport can fit an A330?? That's actually surprising
Nicely Done!
A certain New York real estate mogul disliked this video.
Because he´s unable to buy it.😅
Pity they didn't use their newly delivered A330-800, but it's still very special and I love the A330, one of the best looking airliners I think.
WOW...Awesome ..neat Livery ..Thank you
Got to love an airplane flight from Calgary to Fort Mac to see another airplane land In Fort Mac
Dedication :)
Also Air RedLand :) (Kind of thought it would be a Green plane haha)
Absolutely nothing in Greenland is green.
Nice! They were able to use this because they got a newer airbus in Christmas. They are planning to sell this old bird soon.
Flown on this many times between denmark and Greenland. Fun fact the wing got hit by those cars with the stairs not so many months ago. Parts from US was flown to Greenland on an old boeing 747 to fix it. You can see it on their fb page.
Must a brand new plane with the shiny red, That was a very quick takeoff! Impressive!!
First flight for that aircraft was 1998 actually, originally delivered to Sabena. It'll have been with Air Greenland 20 years this coming August.
I live here
Thanks!
Awesome video!
Great video Alex!
I was supposed to be at the games but got removed for a concussion. Great experience i hear!!
awesome
Good to know they still have Norsaq.
Air canada"s FIN 731 (C-FITL) is coming back in may!
We’re there no other flights during the Air Greenland 330 visit. Maybe it’s sounds a bit nerdy, but it would be a neat size comparison with some AC or WJ aircraft at the terminal up next to the 330 at Fort McMurray.
Honestly glad they had the ground support equipment necessary! Especially for push back! I know larger planes do fly into Fort mac but definitely not this sized!
Superb video Alex. I really enjoy your format and narration. Thank you 🎉
Nice meeting you man, you got some awesome footage of a beautiful aircraft!
You made this on my birthday!
Air Greenland doesn’t have this plane anymore. They sold it in 2023 and bought a brand new Airbus 330 neo called Tuukkaq which is currently in operation. When Norsaq departed Greenland for the last time heading towards Canada, it made a very low pass over the capital city of Nuuk.
Optimum lighting, great video. Thanks.
Fantastic video mate!
Nice video... the plane should've been GREEN 😅😅😅
Loved the vídeo Alex! I often wondered, how come Air Greenland doesn’t fly to Canada as it would be a great opportunity to do a stop in a great area of the world and then continue on to Europe, something similar to Icelandair.
I guess the airport terminal at Kangerlussaq is not designed for that.
But the new runway scheduled to be completed in 2024 maybe opens new opportunities for Air Greenland. However, Nuuk has only some 20.000 People living there, and there are no interconnecting roads to other towns and villages along the cost
@@wakeupcall2665 Exactly. That's why the Greennand/Danish Governments should make a decision to make the airport bigger -not just the runway-, and I believe that a lot of Canadians would certainly go to Greenland and Denmark. That would really make Greenland grow not just in visitors but boost their economy both for Greenland and Denmark. SAS does not fly to Canada. Air Greenland would help boost those two economies. Remember, Greenland (and therefore Denmark) is just next door to us!
They flew to BWI in the USA for a short time.
@@erik_griswold Washington? I’d say Canada has more in common to Greenland (people, cultures, temperatures, etc) than any city in the States. The airlines have to do their homework before “selecting” their international destinations. The US cities are not the correct answer always when wanting to expand operations. Canada has a lot more than what many countries think of. I’m afraid NORSE has to hear that as well. Why are they not flying to Canada?
Awesome! Did you also get the two Alaska Airlines 737s?
Did not realize that Air Greenland owned any birds this big…
Beautiful plane! But sadly it’s just been scrapped 😢 Seen it many times at Copenhagen airport.
Amazing livery ❤
Beautiful aircraft I don’t see why they should start offering flights from Europe to Fort Mac. It would make the economy really swell.
2:33 that butter landing was sideways a bit lol
Alex-- great video! How do you learn about these incoming flights?
Thanks! Usually a couple different sources, but in this case it was an AeroRoutes posting that tipped us off: www.aeroroutes.com/eng/230108-glymm
Torrak..... Smukt !!!
I saw it land