Originally Posted by
White Knight
Widgeon, you obviously haven’t flown up in that part of the world! It is BLEAK and heavy jets with 400 plus passengers are not well served! Unless it’s a dire emergency I think most of us would pass Thule, Sonderstrom, Yellowknife, Fort McMurray for the delights of Winnipeg or Edmonton!
I think they did a good job!
Sorry , was thinking south end of greenland was closer to HFX , but the track they took clearly has WPG as the closer airport . They could have chosen Gimli if they were short on fuel ;<).