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Unusual & unused airports
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17-10-2017 8:50pm#1
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Came across this article today about a new airport opening in St Helena's. never heard of it? Neither had i.........
Napoleon, exile - told about this in secondary school. Not you ?
If you like St Helena then you will love Tristan da Cunha, south of St H. and still safely ariport free
http://www.tristandc.com/about.php
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Beauvais has to be the most drab, dire, difficult to access kip I've been to, ever.
It used to be worse The last time I went through (many MANY moons ago), the gates were mostly a wedding tent (!)...and yes, the floor was plywood.
As nasty as Beauvais my be, it's still pretty useful (as a nasty low-fare long-commute alternative to the main Paris airports).
Up here in Norway, the government created many small regional airports back in the 70's and 80's across the Arctic regions, many of whom have similar demands / challenges as St. Helena.
One such useless example, Vaeroy, was placed on a sparsely populated island on the the end of the Lofotens. It turns out that the location was too dangerous for regular plane operations, resulting in countless cancellations and unfortunatly one fatal crash.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A6r%C3%B8y_Airport
The airport was closed for good shortly after the crash.
It has been replaced by a heleport that's closer to the main town, and the airport itself is now a private residence / chocolate factory.0 -
It used to be worse The last time I went through (many MANY moons ago), the gates were mostly a wedding tent (!)...and yes, the floor was plywood.
As nasty as Beauvais my be, it's still pretty useful (as a nasty low-fare long-commute alternative to the main Paris airports).
Up here in Norway, the government created many small regional airports back in the 70's and 80's across the Arctic regions, many of whom have similar demands / challenges as St. Helena.
One such useless example, Vaeroy, was placed on a sparsely populated island on the the end of the Lofotens. It turns out that the location was too dangerous for regular plane operations, resulting in countless cancellations and unfortunatly one fatal crash.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A6r%C3%B8y_Airport
The airport was closed for good shortly after the crash.
It has been replaced by a heleport that's closer to the main town, and the airport itself is now a private residence / chocolate factory.
Good read, highlight has to be;
“The old airport was in 2000 bought by a private individual who has converted the terminal building into a private dwelling and uses the control tower for a small-scale chocolate factory.”0 -
J.pilkington wrote: »Good read, highlight has to be;
“The old airport was in 2000 bought by a private individual who has converted the terminal building into a private dwelling and uses the control tower for a small-scale chocolate factory.”
My favorite part of the story too
Now I'm wondering what Control Tower chocolate tastes like
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Video of the inaugural flight coming into land. I believe air fares are about €800!
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Video of the inaugural flight coming into land. I believe air fares are about €800!
That’s a different flight that was operated by Comair.
That was a test flight some time back.
The scheduled commercial flights that started last weekend are being operated by Airlink using an Embraer 190 as I posted here:
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What about Ciudad Real near Madrid.
Cost over a billion to build, and closed after three years of operation in 2012. Still closed as far as I know.
That is crazy :eek: Really does seem as though it was built just so they could rake in millions from the contracts.la ultima guagua wrote: »Napoleon, exile - told about this in secondary school. Not you ?
If you like St Helena then you will love Tristan da Cunha, south of St H. and still safely ariport free
http://www.tristandc.com/about.php
Nope, never learnt about Napoleon in school
Good place to go into exile though!
Up here in Norway, the government created many small regional airports back in the 70's and 80's across the Arctic regions, many of whom have similar demands / challenges as St. Helena.
One such useless example, Vaeroy, was placed on a sparsely populated island on the the end of the Lofotens. It turns out that the location was too dangerous for regular plane operations, resulting in countless cancellations and unfortunatly one fatal crash.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A6r%C3%B8y_Airport
The airport was closed for good shortly after the crash.
It has been replaced by a heleport that's closer to the main town, and the airport itself is now a private residence / chocolate factory.
I'm actually going to the Lofoten Islands in March. Flying out of Lekenes but I'm going to make sure I find that chocolate shop now!Thread title changed to deflect from the OPs opinion and show the current discussion.
Thanks Wasn't really my opinion, rather it was the title of the newspaper article, but the discussion is interesting. Seems crazy that airports can be built without taking things like weather conditions and the opinions of the airlines (as in the case of the Lofoten Islands airport) into account. 0 -
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQiQtdq1C3g
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