Ok --You love flying , but don't like landings. Many flyer's find this the most nerve wracking part of the journey. Well, if thats you?--Then don't book your holidays at the following airports.
1 ) Princess Juliana International Airport (Saint Martin)
Princess Juliana International Airport (Saint Martin) Princess Juliana International Airport serves Saint Maarten, the Dutch part of the island of Saint Martin. It is the second busiest airport in the Eastern Caribbean. The airport is famous for its short landing strip — only 2,180 metres/7,152 ft, which is barely enough for heavy jets. Because of this, the planes approach the island flying extremely low, right over Maho Beach. Countless photos of large jets flying at 10--20 m/30-60 ft over relaxing tourists at the beach have been dismissed as fakes many times, but are nevertheless real. For this reason as well it has become a favourite for planespotters. Despite the difficulties in approach, there has been no records of major aviation incidents at the airport.
2) Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport (Saba)
Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport is the only airport on the Caribbean island of Saba, in the Netherlands Antilles. It is well known among experienced fliers for the way in which airplanes must approach or take off from the airport.
Yrausquin Airport covers a relatively large portion of the small island of Saba. Some aviation experts are of the general opinion that the airport is one of the most dangerous in the world, despite the fact that no major tragedies have happened at the facility. The airport's sole runway is marked with an X at each end, to indicate to commercial pilots that the airport is closed for commercial aviation.
The danger arises from the airport's physical position. It is flanked on one side by high hills, and on the other side and at both ends of the runway by cliffs dropping into the sea. This creates the possibility that an airplane might overshoot the runway during landing or takeoff and end up in the sea or on the cliffs.
Courchevel (France)
Courchevel is the name of a ski area located in the French Alps, the largest linked ski area in the world. It's airport has a certain degree of infamy in the aviation industry as home to a relatively short runway, with a length of 525 m (1,722 ft) and a gradient of 18.5%. It's so short that you have to land on an inclined strip to slow down and take off on a decline to pick up enough speed.
Who gets to land here? Well, Pierce Brosnan made the short list. This was the airport used in the opening seen of Tomorrow Never Dies. For the rest of us, private plane, helicopter, or charter are the only ways to go, and your pilot is going to need some serious training before he or she is allowed to land at CVF.
Phew and Yikes! These make Catalina Island look like there's nothing to it.
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Here's another candidate for consideration...regretably there was a bad weather accident here recently on May 30, '08. Toncontín International Airport at Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Here's a link to a neat article on airliners.net by an 11th Grade Student at Academia Los Pinares in Tegucigalpa entitled :
Holy cow!!! I don't fear landing, but these would definitely do it for me. Good collection here, danescombe and everyone else - scary and highly entertaining!
Diane
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Your airport link is interesting - they need Google Earthers to help them name the untitled ones!
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Quote: Holy cow!!! I don't fear landing, but these would definitely do it for me. Good collection here, danescombe and everyone else - scary and highly entertaining!
I second that.
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Phew and Yikes! These make 
Toncontín International Airport at Tegucigalpa, Honduras
BTW...the airport is in a "bowl" BELOW these people to the right!
