1.Tenzing-Hilary Airport, Lukla, Nepal
The airport, named after Tenzing Norway and Edmund Hillary, the first two climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest, is located at a height of 9325 feet. It is located on a mountainside, surrounded by the Himalayas, and has a single 500-meter-long runway! making for one terrifying airport landing.
2. Toncontín Airport, Tegucigalpa, Honduras
The runway at Toncontn Airport is a dangerous one, with the world’s toughest landing! The runway’s actual landing distance is barely 1600 meters, and this is after the pilot navigates around the surrounding mountains and windy weather.
The pilot must complete a 45-degree rotation to align the aircraft with the runway!
3. Gibraltar Airport, Gibraltar
That is the runway at Gibraltar International Airport! Gibraltar is a British territory located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula. The main roadway passes through the runway’s distinctive layout. The highway traffic is temporarily halted during takeoffs and landings.
4. Princess Juliana Airport, Saint Martin
No, the image above was not Photoshopped!
The short runway of Princess Juliana International Airport is located directly below Maho Beach. Airplanes must approach the landing over water, which definitely thrills beachgoers!
5. LaGuardia Airport, New York City
Oh, the stress a pilot feels when he approaches LaGuardia Airport!
Overshooting the runway, which is located between Midtown Manhattan and the Flushing and Bowery bays, may lead the plane to either enter the seas or enter a populated metropolis!
The pilots must also avoid interfering with planes from two adjacent extremely busy airports, JFK and Newark.
6. Barra Airport, Scotland
The only beach airport in the world with regular commercial flights.
The Barra Airport is set on Traigh Mhor’s gorgeous beach. One of the most gorgeous airports in the planet, pilots flying to the airport must keep an eye out for sea tides because the runways are entirely buried during high tide!
With these variable weather patterns, you’d be praying for low tide!
7. Wellington Airport, New Zealand
New Zealand’s Wellington Airport boasts a single runway of 1935 meters that appears to begin and stop in crystal pure blue waters!
The airport’s extremely unsafe and short runway finishes in a perilous plummet right into the ocean.
