St Helena Airport opening 2017, BBC News

BBC report from October 15th, 2017...
CUE: The first ever commercial flight has landed on the island of St Helena in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The island’s British and it’s only connection to the outside world was a boat, which came once a month, and so the government spent more than 250 million pounds building an airport. But when the test flight hit high winds, planes couldn’t land and it was labelled “the world’s most useless airport.” But this afternoon that all changed. Alastair Leithead was on the inaugural flight and sent this report…