Gibraltar Airport (GIB) has the distinction of being the closest airport to the city that it serves, being only 500 metres from Gibraltar's city centre.

Winston Churchill Avenue (the main road heading towards the land border with Spain) intersects the airport runway, so consequently has to be closed every time a plane lands or departs.

Lukla Airport (LUA) is a small airport in the town of Lukla, in eastern Nepal. The airport is popular since Lukla is the place where most people start their climb of Mount Everest.

The runway is located between a mountain on the one end and a 700-metre (2,000 ft) angled drop at the end of the runway to the valley below on the other end.

Wellington Airport (WLG) is the third-busiest airport in New Zealand (after Auckland and Christchurch).

It has a single short runway (2,051 m = 6,729 ft) and several (although relatively few) incidents were reported due to frequent winds: on 21 November 2007, a Cessna 172 owned by Wings over Whales departing to Kaikoura on a whale-watching trip flipped onto its roof as it was taxiing onto the runway in strong northerly winds; on 17 June 2008, a Pacific Blue 737-800 was moved sideways away from an airbridge after a strong gust of wind caught the tail section.

Barra Airport (BRR) is a short-runway airport on the island of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland.

The airport is unique, being the only one in the world where scheduled flights use a beach as the runway.

At high tide these runways are under the sea - flight times vary with the tide.

The aerodrome is not licensed for night use. However, emergency flights occasionally operate at night from the airport, with vehicle lights used to illuminate the runway and reflective strips laid on to the beach.

Copalis State Airport (LID) is located on the beach near Copalis Beach, in Grays Harbor County, Washington, United States.

It is the only airport in the United States that is located on an ocean beach. (Unlike Barra, it does not operate scheduled flights.)

The runway is the 4,500-foot (1,400 m) stretch of ocean beach from the Copalis River on the south to the rocks a mile north. It is only available during low tide.

Saint Maarten-Princess Juliana Airport (SXM) serves the Dutch part of the Caribbean island of Saint Martin.

Runway 10 is only 2180 meters (7152 ft) long, hence incoming airplanes have to approach the island at extremely low attitude, flying only a few meters over the famous Maho Beach.

Despite the reputed difficulties in approach, there have been no records of major incidents at the airport.

Malé Airport (MLE) is the main international airport in the Maldives. It is located on Hulhulé Island in the North Malé Atoll, near the capital island Malé.

The airport resides at an elevation of 6 feet (2 m) above mean sea level and has one runway measuring 3200 metres (10,499 ft).

Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport (SAB) is the only airport on the Caribbean island of Saba.

It is well known among experienced fliers for the way in which airplanes must approach or take off from the airport.

The danger arises from the airport's physical position. First of all, the runway at the airport is extremely short. It is flanked on one side by high hills, and on the other side and at both ends of the runway by cliffs dropping into the sea. This creates the possibility that an airplane could overshoot the runway during landing or takeoff and end up in the sea or on the cliffs.

Courchevel Airport (CVF) is a French airport that serves Courchevel, a ski area.

The airport has a very short runway of only 525 metres (1722 ft) with gradient of 18.5 %. If for some reason the pilot decides not to land, he is unable to simply fly back up to circuit height, and complete another circuit.

The airport has a difficult approach, an upslope runway and a hill with ski runs. The airport's elevation is at 6588ft.

Saint Barthélemy Airport (SBH) or St. Jean Airport (French: Aérodrome de St Jean), is a public use airport located in the village of St. Jean on the Caribbean island of Saint Barthélemy.

The short airstrip is at the base of a gentle slope ending directly on the beach. The arrival descent is extremely steep over the hilltop traffic circle and departing planes fly right over the heads of sunbathers (although small signs advise sunbathers not to lie directly at the end of the runway).

Madeira (Funchal) Airport (FNC) is an international airport located near Funchal, Madeira, Portugal.

The airport was once infamous for its short runway which, surrounded by high mountains and the ocean, made it a tricky landing for even the most experienced of pilots. The original runway was only 1600 metres in length, but was first extended by 200 metres and subsequently rebuilt in 2000, almost doubling the size of the runway, building it out over the ocean. Instead of using landfill, the extension was built on a series of 180 columns, each being about 70m tall.

Paro Airport (PBH) is the only paved airport in Bhutan, six kilometres (three miles) away from Paro.

The airport is located at an altitude of 2,235 m (7,333 ft) in a steep valley on the bank of Paro river, with surrounding peaks as high as 5,480 m (18,000 ft).

Flights at Paro are allowed only under conditions in which pilots have sufficient visibility to fly the aircraft maintaining visual separation from terrain and other aircraft and are restricted to daytime hours (sunrise to sunset).

According to Travel & Leisure, only eight pilots in the world are certified to land at the airport.

Lugano Airport (LUG) is a regional airport located 4 km (2.5 mi) west of Lugano, Switzerland. It lies closer to the nearby village of Agno than to Lugano itself, and so is usually known as Lugano-Agno.

Lugano-Agno's instrument approach procedure is quite challenging because of its steep angle of descent of 6.65°, more than double of the standard approach angle of 3°. This is due to its geographic location in the mouth of a valley.

Toncontín Airport (TGU) is about 6 km away from the center of Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

The airport's single runway is 2,163 m (7,096 feet) in length, and is at an altitude of 1,004 m (3,294 feet). Boeing 757s are the largest aircraft that normally land at Toncontín, as it has one of the shortest international runways in the world.

In May 2009, a 984 ft extension was completed on south end of the runway, increasing the length of the runway from 6112 ft to its current 7096 ft. The extension is helpful for take offs, and rare landings from the north, however it is debatable whether it will assist with standard landings from the south due to the proximity to nearby mountains.