Canada’s largest airport started life on farmland. According to Toronto Pearson’s own history page, the site originally covered 13 farmers’ fields and opened in 1938 as Malton Airport,…
At Rovaniemi Airport in Finnish Lapland, the Arctic Circle is built into the terminal. According to Finavia, which operates the airport, the terminal ceiling features a 40-metre-long…
High above Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and north-west Germany, aircraft are guided by a single international team. EUROCONTROL’s Maastricht Upper Area Control Centre (MUAC)…
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Prague’s main airport still uses the building it opened with in 1937. According to the history page of Václav Havel Airport Prague, the airport at Ruzyně was completed on 1 March 1937 and…
Madeira’s airport opened to traffic with a single landing from the mainland. According to a press release from ANA Aeroportos de Portugal marking the airport’s 60th anniversary, the…
Iceland's main international gateway has its roots in military aviation. According to Keflavík Airport's own history page, ownership of the former Allied military airports at Reykjavík and…
Sweden's largest airport owes its name to a naming competition: the name Arlanda was approved by the Riksdag, the Swedish parliament, after a contest held in 1958. Swedavia's page on the…
The Santa Maria Flight Information Region, one of the two managed by Portuguese air navigation provider NAV Portugal, covers 5.18 million square kilometres, including a vast area of the…
When the new airport complex at Zaventem was formally handed over on 30 May 1958, its terminal was the work of three architects, Maxime Brunfaut, Géo Bontinck and Joseph Moutschen, one…
The first passenger aircraft to land at Helsinki Airport arrived on 5 July 1952, carrying athletes and guests to the Summer Olympic Games in the Finnish capital. According to Finavia,…
The first flight of the Wright brothers’ 1903 Flyer lasted just 12 seconds and covered 36 metres. According to the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, which holds the original…
Kansai International Airport, which serves the Osaka region in Japan, opened on 4 September 1994 on an artificial island in Osaka Bay and operates 24 hours a day. According to its…
Gander International Airport, in Newfoundland, Canada, was once a crossroads of transatlantic aviation. According to the Gander International Airport Authority, construction began in…
EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg, which serves Basel, describes itself as a binational airport and a symbol of international cooperation between France and Switzerland. Its first…
Portugal’s Museu do Ar, the country’s first museum dedicated to aviation, opened to the public on 1 July 1971 in a former Military Aviation hangar in Alverca. According to the Portuguese…
Lisbon Airport’s Terminal 2 handles departures only, ANA explains. Your departure terminal should therefore not be chosen simply from where you arrived on a previous trip. Check your…
At Madrid-Barajas Airport, T4 and its T4 Satellite building are linked by an automatic train known as the APM. Aena describes this separately from the shuttle bus serving other terminal…
The large numbers painted on a runway do not describe its length. The US Federal Aviation Administration’s manual bases the designation on the approach direction, using magnetic heading…
During westerly operations, Heathrow alternates runway use to provide nearby communities with breaks from aircraft noise. One runway handles arrivals and the other departures, with a…
At Schiphol, runway selection depends on wind, visibility, traffic and available runways, Dutch air traffic control provider LVNL explains. For safety, aircraft take off and land into the…
Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport has a curfew from 23:00 to 06:00, local time, restricting operations during those hours. The Australian Government explains that exceptions include emergency…
The Rain Vortex, at Jewel beside Singapore Changi Airport, is an indoor waterfall dropping approximately 40 metres to the basement. The operator presents it as the world's tallest indoor…