Most Scariest Runways

1. Matekane Air Strip, Lesotho

Only light aircraft make use of this airstrip on this isolated tabletop plateau in the tiny southern African kingdom.It ends suddenly at the edge of a 600-meter drop.

 2.Courchevel Altiport, France

The airport is considered dangerous, as it features a difficult approach, an up slope runway and an adjacent area that is the location of ski runs. The Courchevel airfield elevation is 6,588 feet. The History Channel program Most Extreme Airports ranks it as the seventh most dangerous airport in the world.

3.Gibraltar International Airport

In adequate space on the southern tip of the Iberian peninsula that the runway bisects the territory's main highway. As aircraft get priority over automobiles in the vehicular pecking order, most amazingly the road is closed every time a plane takes off or arrives.

4.Madeira Airport, Portugal

The airport was once infamous for its short runway which, surrounded by high mountains and the ocean, made it a tricky landing for even the most experienced of pilots. Its innovative solution allowed Funchal to receive the Outstanding Structure Award in 2004, although it is still considered one of the most dangerous airports in the world.

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Amazing Beach Airport

There’s nothing like a Boeing 747 flying straight towards you to spice up a lazy day on the beach. It might look like something out of a Hollywood disaster movie, but in fact this is a daily occurrence for sunbathers at Maho Beach on the Caribbean island of Sint Maarten / Saint-Martin, as jumbo jets swoop down to land at nearby Princess Juliana International Airport’s perilously short Runway 10.

The amazing spectacle has become a tourist attraction in its own right, with beachside bars listing departure and arrival times and broadcasting radio transmissions between planes and air traffic control over speakers. The jet blast sandstorms whipped up by the planes have also become a popular experience for visitors to the beach.

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World's Busiest Airport

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport known locally as Atlanta Airport, Hartsfield, and Hartsfield–Jackson, is located seven miles (11 km) south of the central business district of Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It has been the world's busiest airport by passenger traffic since 1998, and by number of landings and take-offs since 2005. Hartsfield–Jackson held its ranking as the world's busiest airport in 2012, both in passengers and number of flights, by accommodating 95 million passengers (more than 260,000 passengers daily) and 950,119 flights.Many of the nearly one million flights are domestic flights from within the United States, where Atlanta serves as a major hub for travel throughout the Southeastern United States. The airport has 207 domestic and international gates.
Hartsfield–Jackson International Airport is a focus city for Southwest Airlines and is the primary hub of Delta Air Lines and Delta Connection partner ExpressJet; at nearly 1,000 flights a day, the Delta hub is the world's largest airline hub.[6] Delta Air Lines flew 59.01% of passengers from the airport in February 2011, AirTran flew 17.76%, and ExpressJet flew 13.86%.In addition to hosting Delta's corporate headquarters, Hartsfield-Jackson is also the home of Delta's Technical Operations Center, which is the airline's primary maintenance, repair and overhaul arm. The airport has international service to North America, South America, Central America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. As an international gateway to the United States, Hartsfield–Jackson ranks seventh.

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