A Portuguese airline is currently carrying passengers between Denmark and Greenland. euroAtlantic Airways, the Lisbon-based ACMI and charter operator, has been flying Air Greenland’s scheduled services between Copenhagen and Nuuk since 2 November 2026, according to the Portuguese aviation site Kiosque da Aviação (5 November) and the German trade portal aeroTELEGRAPH (6 November).
The arrangement covers the annual maintenance of Tuukkaq, the Airbus A330-800 that Air Greenland uses on its long-haul link to Denmark. Citing Air Greenland, Kiosque da Aviação reports that the Portuguese aircraft will operate the flights until Tuukkaq returns to service, scheduled for 19 November.
Two aircraft at first, now one
Two euroAtlantic wide-bodies were initially involved: the Airbus A330-300 registered CS-TGI and the A330-200 CS-TGD. Both reports say only the A330-300 is now flying the Air Greenland schedule. CS-TGI is an A330-323 (serial 1229) built in 2011 that joined euroAtlantic’s fleet in August 2026, configured for 290 passengers in three classes with 27 business-class seats, according to Kiosque da Aviação.
The Greenland work comes days after euroAtlantic took delivery of a second A330-300. The airline said the aircraft, to be registered CS-TGJ, arrived in Portugal on 28 October on lease from Jackson Square Aviation, bringing its fleet to eight. Chief executive Pauls Calitis said at the time that CS-TGI was “already operating for ACMI and charter clients” and that the second aircraft would follow once it is added to the operator’s air operator certificate (Kiosque da Aviação, 28 October). Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Carnaxide, near Lisbon, euroAtlantic is backed by the investment firm Njord Partners.
Why Air Greenland needs a stand-in
Air Greenland, Greenland’s flag carrier, is owned by the Government of Greenland and runs a single A330-800 for its transatlantic flights, alongside a domestic fleet of turboprops and 18 helicopters, with its hub at Nuuk. It reported 745 employees in its 2024 annual report. With one long-haul aircraft, any heavy-maintenance check removes the whole Denmark trunk route from its own fleet — which is why the airline contracts in capacity with crew, maintenance and insurance included, the model known as ACMI or wet lease.
The Copenhagen link is growing. Air Greenland opened a second year-round Copenhagen route on 26 October 2026, from the new airport at Ilulissat, initially once a week. According to ch-aviation, that route is flown with a Boeing 737-800 wet-leased from the Danish operator Jettime until Air Greenland’s first A320neo arrives in spring 2027. It also flies seasonally from Kangerlussuaq to Copenhagen and from Nuuk to Billund and Aalborg.
What it means for the corridor
Most of the Portugal–Nordic trade that NorthSouth HQ tracks is goods: textiles, cork, wine, stone and metal parts. This is a services export, and the buyer is a state-owned carrier inside the Danish realm. Portuguese ACMI operators sell capacity on short notice, and a Nordic carrier with a one-aircraft long-haul fleet is the kind of customer that needs it every year. The open question is whether a two-week maintenance cover leads to repeat or seasonal work. Air Greenland’s fleet changes in 2027 and euroAtlantic’s extra wide-body capacity will decide that.
Sources: Kiosque da Aviação (19 August, 28 October and 5 November 2026); aeroTELEGRAPH (6 November 2026); ch-aviation (27 February 2026); Air Greenland A/S Annual Report 2024; Wikipedia entries for Air Greenland and EuroAtlantic Airways (accessed 11 November 2026). NorthSouth HQ did not find a press release from either airline on the arrangement at the time of writing.