This was carried out in worsening weather, and by the time the refuelling was complete and the call was made for the passengers to re-board the aircraft, the wintry showers had taken hold and snow had settled heavily on the runway and around the airport.

One other airport has an unpaved runway.

The largest of those airports, Bluie West Eight, now renamed Kangerlussuaq Airport, remains the international hub for travel to Greenland, as it is the only airport that has a large enough runway to service jumbo jets.

They also tended to identify more closely with a culture of protest and civil disobedience, frequently clashing with police at demonstrations against nuclear weapons, nuclear energy, and the construction of a new runway ( Startbahn West ) at Frankfurt airport.

The central means of transportation to this island was the airport, which had a paved military runway.

All of the classifications are made by the length of the longest runway on an airport.

Similarly, this lack of waste heat generation has been observed to sometimes cause significant problems with street traffic signals and airport runway lighting in snow-prone areas.

* 1977 – Tenerife airport disaster: Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 ( all 248 on KLM and 335 on Pan Am ).

The island's airport consists of a stretch of road that serves as a runway and an airline terminal.

The remaining 48 airports have unpaved runways including one airport with a runway longer than 3, 047 meters.

Doha's international airport has an approximately main runway, capable of receiving all kinds of aircraft.

The 8001-foot runway airport has direct flights to London, New York and Miami, and seasonal flights to Charlotte, NC, and Philadelphia, PA, in addition to other major cities in the U. S. A. and Canada during the tourist season.

The airport runway is 4002 feet in length.

There is one airport with an unpaved runway, under 914m ( 2005 est.

In the early 1980s, the country's civilian airports, with the exception of Khartoum International Airport and the airport at Juba, sometimes closed during rainy periods because of runway conditions.

One car at a time runs a course laid out with traffic cones on a large paved surface, such as a parking lot or airport runway.

Besides the Panoramaterras, Schiphol has other spotting sites, especially along the newest Polderbaan runway and at the McDonald's restaurant at the north side of the airport.

* Bukoba airport has a single 1058m x 28m gravel surfaced runway, with a taxiway and a small apron also gravel surfaced.

* Singida airport has a gravel surfaced runway.

* Sumbawanga airport has a single 1200m x 23m gravel surfaced runway, a taxiway and a small apron both gravelled.

* Kabul International Airport ( 3500 m runway ) is the nation's largest airport and the primary hub for international civilian flights.

* Kandahar International Airport ( 3200 m runway ) is a dual-use airport serving southern Afghanistan.

* Mazari Sharif Airport ( 3100 m runway ) is a dual-use airport serving the northern and central portions of the country.

* Herat International Airport ( 2600 m runway ) is the primary civil airport for the western portion of the country.

The airport has a single asphalt-concrete runway that is 3070 metres long and 45 metres wide ( large enough to handle wide-bodied aircraft such as the Boeing 747 ), five taxiways and fourteen terminal gates.

The airport has paved runways of length exceeding 1, 525 metres.

There are plans to build a new airport outside the city with increased runway length and weight-bearing capacity.

The city of Gastonia owns and operates Gastonia Municipal Airport, which is a general aviation airport with a single runway, Runway 3 / 21, an asphalt runway that is 3, 779 feet in length

This accounts for the length of the runways and the size of the county airport in the town.

The LA / Palmdale Regional Airport / Air Force Plant 42 ( PMD ) has two runways, each over in length, although there is currently no commercial airline service at the airport.

Rocky Mount-Wilson Airport: Only from Tarboro, this airport has one runway which is lighted and extends a length of 7, 100 '.

The airport is relatively small in size, but its runway has the capability and length to accept jets up to the Boeing 767.

The classic BCATP airport consisted of three runways, each typically 2, 500 ft ( 760 m ) in length, arranged in a triangle so that aircraft could always land ( more-or-less ) into the wind — that was critically important at a time when most light training aircraft ( such as the North American Harvard ) were taildraggers, which are difficult to land in strong cross-winds.

The council responded to lobbying and focused again on developing the airport, first by operating the Airport at arms length via an independent management team.

The airport possesses a single runway, running roughly east to west, with a length of at an elevation of.

With a runway of only in length, and a glideslope of 7. 5 degrees ( for noise abatement reasons ), the airport could only be used by a very limited number of aircraft types, principally the Dash 7 and the smaller Dornier Do 228.

Numerous attempts to expand safety buffer zones and add runway length have drawn opposition from the airport ’ s neighbors, citing increased noise.

They included: installing centerline landing lights on the main runway, extending the second runway to 7, 700 feet ( the length most airplanes that use the airport would need ), construction of a new terminal with sky bridges and inside baggage claim, and remodeling the existing terminal to accommodate international flights.

Two parallel tunnels for the line run roughly 70 feet ( 20 meters ) below the airport, and at 1. 7 miles ( 2. 7 km ) in length are the longest tunnels on the route.

Aircraft departing to the west use the east end of the runway as their departure point, but terrain west of the airport reduces the effective runway length to roughly.

Terrain east and west of the airport greatly impacts the available runway length.

The one-story South Concourse ( aka Concourse A ) opened in 1961 adding another 688 feet to the length of the airport.

The airport is currently extending both ends of runway 05 / 23, for an overall increase in length from 8800 ft ( 2682 m ) to 10, 500 feet ( 3201 m ); this extension is scheduled to be completed by November 2012.

The airport also has available Runway 18 / 36, another Navy-constructed runway, for rare northerly fronts that occur in the winter, although at in length, this runway is not used for normal commercial traffic.

The high elevation of the airport, extremely high summer temperatures and the fact that it was designed for the Boeing 747 necessitated the extreme length of the main runway.

The airport has a single concrete runway, which is the longest in Switzerland with a length of, and a smaller, parallel, grass runway for light aircraft.

The long runway length can be attributed to the relatively high elevation,, of the airport and the need to support the largest passenger aircraft types.