Interesting article

[CAflyer]

http://www.smartertravel.com/photo-galleries/editorial/worlds-scariest-airports.html?id=32

[jsellers1981]

Gee thanks!! I have to fly into LaGuardia next month! :eek:

[Barb-SAN]

I love the "scary" airplane photo you see when you click the link!
Maybe we should have a contest and see who has been to the most airports on that list! ;)
I've been to 4 of them (Tegucigalpa in 1975, Guatemala City numerous times in the 70's and 80's, LGA in 1988, John Wayne in 2006 (in a Cessna 172SP at night). All flights were "uneventful", though I was quite aware of flying close to mountains in Honduras and Guatemala.

Should we put the listed airports on our "to do in our lifetime" list? :eek:

[StPeteMark]

Gee thanks!! I have to fly into LaGuardia next month! :eek:
What's the deal with LaGuardia?

I few into it for the first time Memorial Day weekend and didn't see anything scary. What did I miss? :confused:

Thanks!
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[jsellers1981]

I don't know but it's on the list in the article!

[Barb-SAN]

I don't know but it's on the list in the article!
You have to click on each photo to get the details about that airport.

The main, 7,000-foot runways at New York's LaGuardia Airport were extended back in 1967—over water (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPSm78_Zuj4). In case gliding over Flushing and Bowery bays isn't enough of a thrill, pilots have to avoid interfering with flights from two other extremely busy airports nearby: JFK and Newark. Plus, the airport is located a mere eight miles from Midtown Manhattan, sometimes creating the illusion that the plane is skimming rooftops (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cuGBtrHfbA). Smith cites LaGuardia's shared airspace, climbs, and twists and turns as reasons why it is a more challenging airport. "On one approach to runway 31, the plane makes a steep, continuous low-altitude turn around what was Shea Stadium, now Citi Field, from south to northwest; it's very low to the ground and a short final approach."

[MathFox]

I recall I saw another "dangerous airport" list some time ago, mentioning different airports. Two Netherlands' arports were on that list: Saba and St. Martin (SXM).

Some airports may be more challenging to the pilots than others, but if safe operation is impossible, there won't be air service.

[MathFox]

This certainly is a different list of exceptional airports. Not all scary: one airport with an 18 hole golf course squeezed between the two parallel runways...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/picturegalleries/7808977/The-worlds-strangest-weirdest-and-scariest-airports.html

Yes, Juliana and Yrausquin are in the list.