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Gibraltar’s airport is one of the weirdest and coolest I’ve ever seen: https://www.amusingplanet.com/2011/11/gibraltar-airport-worlds-only-airport.html?m=1 http

Gibraltar’s airport is one of the weirdest and coolest I’ve ever seen: https://www.amusingplanet.com/2011/11/gibraltar-airport-worlds-only-airport.html?m=1 https://www.amusingplanet.com/2011/11/gibraltar-airport-worl... You just casually walk and drive across the runway a few minutes after a plane lands. Their ATC must have quite a lot on their plate. But Gibraltar has managed to efficiently pack a lot of services onto that one small rock.

detritus 5y ago
I used to cross this at least twice a day going to and from school. One time as a teenager a friend and I were fart-arsing around very (very) slowly until a stern warning came over the tannoy and we looked Eastward to see a plane coming into land, much closer than we would have liked. Silly idiots.
- zubairq 5y ago
  Yeah it is very cool. I just crossed the runway one hour ago to go to the eroski supermarket.
  - detritus 5y ago
    You mean Presto? :) (Then Safeways, then Morrisons, then something else I think, and now Eroski. I do love that Gibraltar has a Basque supermarket, within spitting distance of the border, haha :)
    - zubairq 5y ago
      Oh maybe I have the name wrong, but it is on the Gibraltar side and partnered with Waitrose in the uk
philjohn 5y ago
It's great fun - it was going to be changed when the joint airport was planned with a relief road going around and under it, in a way, I'm glad they didn't do that. It's also the runway for the RAF base, and holds the record for airport closest to the town centre it serves, at 500m.
- detritus 5y ago
  The tunnel is actually still on, and should be completed by the end of the year.
  - philjohn 5y ago
    Oh wow - last I heard it kept being delayed. It'll be much better for traffic, but the cool factor of "I'm waiting at a level crossing FOR A PLANE" will be lost .
adwww 5y ago
"Cars wait patiently as a Jumbo taxies on the runway" The photo caption under a photo of what is clearly some sort of regional narrow-body.

detritus 5y ago

I used to cross this at least twice a day going to and from school. One time as a teenager a friend and I were fart-arsing around very (very) slowly until a stern warning came over the tannoy and we looked Eastward to see a plane coming into land, much closer than we would have liked. Silly idiots.

zubairq 5y ago
Yeah it is very cool. I just crossed the runway one hour ago to go to the eroski supermarket.
- detritus 5y ago
  You mean Presto? :) (Then Safeways, then Morrisons, then something else I think, and now Eroski. I do love that Gibraltar has a Basque supermarket, within spitting distance of the border, haha :)
  - zubairq 5y ago
    Oh maybe I have the name wrong, but it is on the Gibraltar side and partnered with Waitrose in the uk

philjohn 5y ago

It's great fun - it was going to be changed when the joint airport was planned with a relief road going around and under it, in a way, I'm glad they didn't do that. It's also the runway for the RAF base, and holds the record for airport closest to the town centre it serves, at 500m.

detritus 5y ago
The tunnel is actually still on, and should be completed by the end of the year.
- philjohn 5y ago
  Oh wow - last I heard it kept being delayed. It'll be much better for traffic, but the cool factor of "I'm waiting at a level crossing FOR A PLANE" will be lost .

adwww 5y ago

"Cars wait patiently as a Jumbo taxies on the runway" The photo caption under a photo of what is clearly some sort of regional narrow-body.