Ilulissat Airport

Ilulissat Airport Mittarfik Ilulissat Ilulissat Lufthavn
IATA: JAV ICAO: BGJN
Summary
Airport type	State owned
Owner	Mittarfeqarfiit
Serves	Ilulissat and Disko Bay, Greenland
Location	Ilulissat, Avannaata Municipality
Hub for	Air Greenland
Elevation AMSL	95 ft / 29 m
Coordinates	69°14′36″N 051°03′26″W / 69.24333°N 51.05722°W / 69.24333; -51.05722
Website	www.mit.gl/ilulissat
Map
BGJN Location within Greenland
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 06/24 845 2,772 Asphalt
Statistics (2012)
Passengers 83,930
Source: AIP[1]

Ilulissat Airport (Greenlandic: Mittarfik Ilulissat, Danish: Ilulissat Lufthavn, originally Jakobshavn Lufthavn); (IATA: JAV, ICAO: BGJN) is a minor international airport serving Ilulissat, Greenland, the entire Disko Bay Region, the North and West Greenland. It is the 59th largest airport in the Nordic countries with 83,000 passengers in 2012 and is the second airport built in Greenland for civilian travel partially funded by the EU (former EC) Structural Funds and Cohesion Fund. It is the third-busiest airport in Greenland, and one of the busiest for international travel in Greenland.^[2]

The airport is located north-east of Ilulissat, just 2.8 kilometres (1.7 mi) of city centre. It was built in 1983,^[3] replacing the heliport.^[3] The airport is the main hub out of three used by Air Greenland.