St helena island south atlantic airport
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Saint Helena Airport
Airport in the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena
Saint Helena Airport (IATA: HLE, ICAO: FHSH) is an international airport on Saint Helena, a remote island in the south Atlantic Ocean, in the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha.
The construction of the runway was finished in 2015 and the airport opened in 2016. The inaugural scheduled flight was delayed, but general aviation, charter, and medical evacuation flights were able to serve the airport from May 2016.[4][5]
The airport began scheduled commercial services on 14 October 2017, when the South African carrier Airlink inaugurated a weekly service from O. R. Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, South Africa, via Walvis Bay Airport, Namibia, using an Embraer E190-100IGW,[6][7][8][9][10] about one and a half years after the originally expected inauguration date. The service wa
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The Opening of 'The World’s Most Useless Airport' in Remote Saint Helena
Last weekend, after five years of construction and controversy, the tiny and isolated British island of Saint Helena welcomed its first scheduled commercial flight. Saint Helena, a British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic Ocean, is one of the most remote islands in the world—a volcanic outcrop with an area of only 47 square miles. According to Reuters, the only way to access the island previously was by sea, “a five-night voyage from Cape Town.” The new airport, servicing the 4,500 island inhabitants with flights from South Africa, was built at a cost of $374 million. Construction was completed in 2016, but test flights ran into serious weather-related problems, pushing the opening back more than a year, leading to the nickname “world’s most useless airport.” Gathered here are a handful of images from the inaugural flight and from around Saint Helena.
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St Helena Airport
Contact St Helena Airport
For more kunskap please see the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) section of this website. To contact the Airport about permission to flyga eller fly undan to St Helena, to fly a drone or for any other query, please contact the Operations Manager for St Helena Airport Ltd as follows:
Operations Manager: Gerald Yon
Tel: (+290) 25180 Ext 173 | Mobile: (+290) 63722
E-mail: operations@sthelenaairport.aero
CEO & Accountable Manager: Gwyneth Howell
Tel: (+290) 25175 | Mobile: (+290) 63131
E-mail: operations@sthelenaairport.aero
Post: St Helena Airport Limited, Combined Building, St Helena Airport, Prosperous Plain, St Helena Island, South Atlantic Ocean, STHL 1ZZ
Airport Main Number:
Tel: (+290) 25180 Ext 0
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