The most dangerous airport in the world - is Paro in Bhutan. Since it is located in the mountains,

The oldest airport in the world is Berlin "Tempelhof", built in 1923. In 2008, the Berlin authorities od kotva tried to close it as unprofitable, but the locals are opposed to this, as they found "Tempelhof" historical and cultural value. Now there is a museum.
The most dangerous airport in the world - is Paro in Bhutan. Since it is located in the mountains, od kotva it has a shorter runway, landing on top of which is piloting skill. No wonder that in Bhutan planes fly very few airlines. Interesting fact: the pilots all companies flying with landing at the airport in Paro, get a lot of risk for a raise.
The most expensive airport in the world is Hong Kong, located on the island of Chek Lap Kok. By the time of its discovery in 1998, construction costs exceeded $ 20 billion. True, the game is worth the candle: Chek Lap Kok repeatedly led the ratings of the best airports in the world.
The longest runway has a military airport od kotva "Edwards" in the United States. Its length is 11.92 kilometers. However, this band is the ground, it should od kotva not put civil airliners. But it perfectly sit military transport aircraft and even "shuttles" for which she, in fact, and built.
The most extreme runway airport belongs Matekane in African kingdom of Lesotho. 416-meter "Vzletka" ends at the edge of the abyss, to the bottom of which is more than 2 kilometers. According to the designers, the planes taking off had to dial the desired speed is already in free fall. Obviously, this extreme od kotva is not particularly pleased pilots and passengers, so in 2009 Matekane was closed to passenger liners. Interestingly, the military transport aircraft with humanitarian cargo airport continues to take in the moment.
One of the most interesting airports in the world called the Princess Juliana International Airport in the Dutch part of the island of St. Martin (part of the archipelago of the Lesser Antilles). It is famous for the fact that the aircraft was landing there at extremely low altitudes, just above the heads of tourists sunbathing on a local beach Maho. It is not surprising that among the pilots landing at this airport is considered one of the most difficult.
Interesting fact: the Kazakh "airport" sounds like "euezhzhay." Of course, no one actually od kotva does not require visitors to leave, just so much fun to the Russian ear sounds Kazakh phrase "air house."
On the Scottish island of Barra is an interesting airport, whose sandy runways during high tides completely flooded by sea water. There may land only special aircraft with shortened by takeoff / landing, for example, the Israeli IAI Arava or Canadian De Havilland DHC-6.
International code of San karlosskogo Airport in California - SQL. Ironically, far from it, in Redwood City, is located the headquarters of the IT-giant Oracle, one of the largest producers of software for working with databases (as we know, SQL is the most common language to refer to him).