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Overview:- Unless you're a dog-sledding devotee, you may not like flying into McMurdo Station on Antarctica. The good news is that the runways are long. The bad news is that they are made of ice, and that the weather is

Overview:- Sitting on beautiful, remote Saba Island about 28 miles south of St. Maarten in the Caribbean, Juancho E. Yrausquin has the world's shortest commercial airport runway at 1300 feet in total length, about a quarter mile. The whole island

Overview:- If you dig mountain scenery, then that might help you feel a little less queasy about flying in or out of Toncontin Airport in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Aircraft have to skirt around the mountains of the interior highlands to land

Overview:- Gibraltar is a crossroads of history, and that theme carries through to its airport, where more than 415,000 passengers flew in 2014. Planes using Gibraltar's sole 5500-foot runway (09/27) must cross the street Winston Churchill Avenue, to be precise,