On Saturday - July 27th - we departed Greenland for a short layover in Reykjavik. We decided to include a night in Reykjavik in our schedule to visit the city. As we sat in the Nuuk airport awaiting our flight on Saturday morning we sat patiently as the flight was delayed by 30 minutes. As 30 minutes became 50 minutes we began to speculate (we had been told getting in and out of Greenland could be an adventure). After a few minutes of wondering what could be going on ... the fog that sat in earlier in the morning had finally cleared ... we heard an announcement in Greenlandic, then Danish, and finally in English. Our flight to Reykjavik had been cancelled and we would not be departing for Reykjavik until the following day, at the earliest. The airplane required maintenance - and Air Greenland simply doesn't have a large fleet of aircraft.
It was easy to complain immediately after hearing this news - after all, our flights were all booked as one-way. Missing our flight from Reykjavik on Sunday afternoon would have likely meant we would have to book another flight to Copenhagen. Looking back, Air Greenland was quite good to us - putting us up for a night in the best hotel in Nuuk and paying for both lunch and dinner at the hotel restaurants. In the afternoon, we received a call to inform us that our flight would depart to Reykjavik the following morning - and if on time, we would easily make our connection to Copenhagen. The extra day allowed us to shoot more video in Nuuk (we made our connecting flight). Reykjavik will have to happen some other time.
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