Long reads & round-ups
Latest · Feature28 SEP 20265 min read
After the last flight
When a city moves its airport, the old one becomes a park, a housing estate or a cruise terminal. The runway is usually the last thing to go.
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Read 27 SEP 2026Feature
Scheduled service at 78° North
Above the 76th parallel, a handful of airfields still take flights you can book. Most have gravel runways, weekly flights and months without sunrise; the busiest is built on ice-rich permafrost.
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3 MIN27 SEP 2026Feature
The ninety-second flight
Between Westray and Papa Westray in Orkney, an eight-seat Islander covers 2.7 km in about a minute and a half. It is the shortest scheduled flight in the world — and a lifeline, not a stunt.
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3 MINJournal pieces are written from register entries and link back to them. For ranked lists of airports, see Collections.