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Mar 20, 2007 | 8:16 pm

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Originally Posted by stevechin

I flew out of Lake Hood, AK a few years ago. We flew out of Lake Hood on a fly-in fishing trip to the Kenai River. I guess Lake Hood could be a small airport, or one with a really large landing area, depending on how you look at it.

As far as a commercial airport, I'd have to say TBU - Tongapatu airport in Tonga. We landed in an Air Pacific 737 and took the entire length of the runway!

There was no taxiway, we ended up making a U-turn to get to the terminal. There's are no jetways, or push back tractors, so we ended up parking parallel to the terminal like at a bus station.

I think the one Air Pacific flight is the only regularly scheduled commercial jet flight into TBU.

Steve

I was also wondering about float-planes.

NZ also flies to TBU from AKL, APW and LAX so plenty of flights, even wide bodies (767).

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