Method
The Flight
passenger statistics contains information about the number of passengers and
the country of origin of said passengers. The statistics describes the monthly
transport of passengers on flights out of Greenland from the six international
airports: Kangerlussuaq, Nuuk, Kulusuk,
Ilulissat, Nerlerit inaat, Narsarsuaq.
Only
flights of civil nature such as scheduled and charter flights are included in
the statistics. This includes taxi and other flights of professional capacity.
Furthermore, only flights with a foreign destination are included.
Data
regarding passengers are received monthly from Greenland Airports. Statistics
Greenland do a general control for errors before publication.
The
information regarding passengers country of origin are received daily from
Greenland Airports, and are done in connection with passenger check-in.
The number
of passengers are based on a census, whereas the country of origin numbers are
based on a sample of roughly 90-95 percent of the passengers throughout the
country.
The
Government of Greenland introduced a travel ban limiting travel to and from
Greenland on the 20’th of march 2020. This was partly lifted on the 15’th of
June 2020.
The
Government of Greenland introduced a new travel ban to and from Greenland on
the 30’th of December 2020.
Publications
The flight
passenger statistic are released monthly approximately 30 days after the
reference period has finished.
The English
translation of the publication are released on a quarterly basis.
Next
publication
The next
Airplane passengers publication in English will be published January 31’st
2022.