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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Daniel Boffey in Nuuk

Greenland split over benefits of tourism as territory opens to the world

Air Greenland plane over a snowy runway.
The first direct international flight lands in Nuuk on Thursday. Photograph: Inesa Matuliauskaite/Guide to Greenland

The capital’s new airport has been opened, two more are in the making, and expectations are high: the Americans are coming to Greenland.

On Thursday, the first ever international flight into Nuuk, the most populous settlement on the autonomous Danish territory, landed to cheers on the ground and in the cabin of Air Greenland flight GL781 where passengers were served miniature bottles of Nicolas Feuillatte champagne.

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