First Passenger Plane Lands at ‘World’s Most Useless Airport’ on Island of Napoleon’s Exile
Residents of St. Helena are celebrating the arrival of the first passenger jet to land at the south Atlantic island’s $370 million (£285mn) airport, whose opening has been delayed for years due to unforeseen “dangerous wind conditions.”
An aircraft carrying 60 passengers touched down at the airport on Saturday after more than a decade of well-publicized blunders and delays. Costing the equivalent of over $78,000 (£60,000) for each person living on the island, the airport, dubbed “the world’s most useless,” is one of Britain’s most expensive per capita projects in recent times.
Plans to develop an airport on the British territory had been devised in 2005, but did not get approval from the British government until 2010. Construction eventually got underway one year later.
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