# Ilulissat Airport (JAV / BGJN)

**Ilulissat Airport** (IATA: JAV, ICAO: BGJN) is a medium airport in Ilulissat, Avannaata Municipality, Greenland. It opened on 29 Sep 1984. It has one runway, 845 m (2,772 ft) long, asphalt.

Web page: https://dromopedia.com/airports/bgjn

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: JAV / BGJN
- Type: Medium airport
- Serves: Ilulissat, Avannaata Municipality, Greenland
- Opened: 29 Sep 1984 (Wikipedia)
- Elevation: 29 m / 95 ft
- Coordinates: 69.2432, -51.0571
- Runways: 1
- Longest runway: 845 m / 2,772 ft
- Time zone: UTC-2/-1 · America/Nuuk
- Website: http://www.mit.gl/dagens-flyvninger/lufthavne/ilulissat/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilulissat_Airport (18 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3085806
- Weather station: BGJN
- Ident: BGJN

## Timeline

- 29 Sep 1984: Ilulissat Airport opens.

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 06/24 | 845 m / 2,772 ft | 30 m / 98 ft | Asphalt |  |  |

## Routes

1 destination in 1 country. From the airport's Wikipedia article.

### Seasonal (1)

- [KEF](https://dromopedia.com/airports/bikf.md) Keflavik International Airport · Iceland · 1,369 km / 851 mi · Icelandair

## Airlines

The figure is how many destinations each airline flies from JAV, as the routes above have them. Hubs from Wikidata.

### Passenger (1)

- FI [Icelandair](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/icelandair) · 1 · seasonal

## Rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports; = marks a shared place.

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Longest runway | 845 m / 2,772 ft | =18,108 of 29,858 | #7,719 in North America | #11 in GL |
| Elevation | 29 m / 95 ft | =37,097 of 43,403 | =16,826 in North America | #11 in GL |
| Age | Opened 1984 | =8,717 of 15,079 | =6,590 in North America | #4 in GL |
| Runways | 1 | =4,364 of 29,978 | =2,583 in North America | =1 in GL |

## Nearby airports

- [JEG](https://dromopedia.com/airports/bgaa.md) Aasiaat Airport · 90 km / 56 mi

## In collections

- [Shortest runways with airline service](https://dromopedia.com/collections/shortest-scheduled) #60
- [Northernmost airline service](https://dromopedia.com/collections/northernmost) #66

## Sources

- [NOAA Aviation Weather Center](https://aviationweather.gov/data/api/): Weather data: NOAA Aviation Weather Center (Public Domain (US Government))
- [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/): Airport data from OurAirports (Public Domain)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org): Structured data from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
- [Wikipedia: “Ilulissat Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ilulissat_Airport&oldid=1363818364), revision of 12 Jul 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- [timezone-boundary-builder](https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder): Time zone boundaries © OpenStreetMap contributors, timezone-boundary-builder (ODbL 1.0)
- Every figure with its source: https://dromopedia.com/airports/bgjn/data