Kanton's closest neighbor is the uninhabited island of Enderbury, 63 km to the south.

Much of Kanton's land surface is bare coral, sparsely covered with herbs and low bunch grass ; trees and bushes are found near the village site.

Ultimately, the introduction of long-range jet aircraft spelled the end of Kanton's usefulness as an aircraft refueling station, and all airlines ended their operations there by the late 1950s — except for Pan Am, which continued a monthly service with DC-7C aircraft via Auckland, Nadi, Pago Pago, Kanton, Honolulu and return.

Kanton's post office was reopened by the Kiribati government, and the island was repopulated with a few people from the more crowded atolls of the Gilbert Islands, who reside in several of the abandoned residences left over from the Anglo-American presence.

Only the power station, the airport, and the railroad link to Zinnowitz remained functional.

Juba airport runways were rebuilt by a loan from the European Development Fund, but the control tower and navigational equipment remained incomplete.

Concourse G is the only one of the original 1959 concourses that has largely remained in its original state, save for the modifications the rest of the airport received in the 1960s.

Gardermoen remained a secondary reserve and airport for chartered flights to Oslo Airport, Fornebu until 8 October 1998, when the latter closed and an all-new Gardermoen opened, at the expense of.

The attack was over in an hour, and the airport remained in German hands for the duration of World War II.

The facility remained Hollywood-Burbank Airport for over a decade until 1978, when Lockheed sold the airport to the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority.

Memphis International Airport fell into second position worldwide in 2010, following Hong Kong, it remained one of the busiest cargo airport in the United States.

The airport remained open at the end of the war for RAF activity.

It remained London's third-busiest airport in terms of passengers handled until the end of the 1970s, when the role of " London's third airport " passed to Stansted.

The airport remained a domestic airport until September 1996, when it was once again opened to both international passenger and cargo traffic.

A planned seizure of the airport at Entebbe by soldiers in an allegedly hijacked East African Airways passenger aircraft was aborted when Obote's pilot blew out the aircraft's tires and it remained in Tanzania.

The airport remained small and undeveloped and contained two gravel / tarmac runways: north / south and east / west.

The airport was originally named Broome County Airport and that name remained through the 1970s.

For the next six years, the airport remained under military control.

In 1946, the airfield was released back to the city of Orlando, while the military support facilities to the north and northeast of the airport remained under US Army Air Forces control as a non-flying administrative and technical training installation.

The station opened on 19 July 1975 in the first phase of the extension of the line from Hounslow West to Heathrow Airport and remained the terminus until Heathrow Central opened at the airport on 16 December 1977.

In spite of hostile actions, Sarajevo international airport had successfully remained open.

Less than a year after the line opened, the State Rail Authority stated that " patronage has been lower than expected to date ", but they remained optimistic, believing " that as airport users become more familiar with this facility and the ingrained habits of many years gradually alter, patronage will continue to increase ," In 2000, the Airport Link Company went into receivership, exposing the government to costs of around $ 800 million ; it was put up for sale in early 2006.

The over-crowded Pampulha Airport remained the airport of choice.

Since then the idea of opening the airport has been floated several times, but the lands have remained undeveloped.

The military left the airport completely in 1994, but their aircraft collection remained to form the nucleus of the Canada Aviation Museum.

Although she remained friends with Seth, she missed Pittsburgh too much, and decided to move back, with a tearful goodbye to Seth at the airport.

Since early 2003, a special law court with prison facilities has been operational at Schiphol airport.

Sensitive areas in airports, including airport ramps and operational spaces, are restricted from the general public.

The building of Tallinn Airport started in 1932, and the airport was opened officially on 20 September 1936, although it had been operational a good while before the official opening.

Since the airport was still operational when this happened, the demolition of the runway trapped planes.

Long Cheng was a micro-nation operational site with its own bank, airport, school system, officials, and many other facilities and services in addition to its military units.

However, the airport did not remain operational for long after the 1989 Revolution.

Meigs is the default airport for the Microsoft Flight Simulator series until Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004, though the airport remains operational in Flight Simulator 2004.

A private airport, Twin Cities Airport ( code 39AR ), was operational to the southeast of the city, but has been closed for many years.

Cokeville Munincipal Airport ( U06 ) is an operational munincipal airport serving the Town of Cokeville and surrounding areas.

Pemco expects to be operational by September 1, 2010 and will then occupy both maintenance facilities at the airport.

A recurring operational problem at the airport is misidentification of the westernmost taxiway, Taxiway Tango, as a landing surface.

Overcrowding of the airport in recent years prompted the construction of Terminal 2, which was opened on July 29, 2000, with half of its gates operational ; EVA Air was the first airline to move into Terminal 2.

However Berlin is expected to catch up once operational as the city's single airport in 2013.

Sensitive areas in airports, including airport ramps and operational spaces, are restricted from the general public.

The airport has five operating terminals spread over an operational area of and is India's and South Asia's largest and most important airline hub ; CSIA handled 30. 74 million passengers and 656, 369 tonnes of cargo during FY 2011-12.

The airport has developed a noise management strategy following a planning agreement, under which the airport operates, and has established operational noise abatement procedures.

The 3rd Airbus A320 ( S5-AAA ) is still owned by Adria but it is not operational and is stored at Ljubljana airport.

However, the airport never got beyond the first phase of construction, and by October 2005 runway 11 / 29 was closed leaving only runway 06 / 24 operational.

There may also be operational considerations that limit the allowable wingspan ( e. g., available width at airport gates ).

The IATA airport code and FAA airfield identifier code was NOP when it was an operational naval air station and later coast guard air station, but now uses the FAA Location Identifier NY22 for the heliport operated there by the NYPD.

Air France, West Berlin's third scheduled carrier, which had suffered a continuous traffic decline ever since the transfer of Berlin operations to more distant Tegel at the beginning of 1960 due to Tempelhof's operational limitations that made it unsuitable for its Caravelles, was worst affected by the equipment changes at the latter airport during the mid-to late-1960s.

A replacement air traffic control tower became operational on 21 March 2011, and the start of daily services by Aer Arann on 27 March 2011 to Galway and Waterford in Ireland, marked the return of year round scheduled passenger services to the airport ..

The expansion master plan projects also include a second 4, 100 m parallel runway, 2 km from the existing runway ( already operational as of 2009 ), a new 110 metre tower between the two runways with the new Air Traffic Control centre, enhanced cargo and maintenance facilities, and other commercial developments on the land immediately adjacent to and north of the existing airport.