The Only Airport in the world Runway Intersecting a Road .A pair of flimsy-looking barriers closes vehicular traffic every time a plane lands or departs.Fortunately, it’s not a busy airport. It handles only about 60-70 flights a week, All flying to and from the United Kingdom.It heads towards the land border with Spain.The one and only amazing Airport Gibraltar or North Front Airport. A tiny peninsula with an area of only 6.8 square kilometres.The lack of flat space on Gibraltar means the peninsula's only runway is bisected by its busiest road, the Winston Churchill Avenue.It is a civilian airport that serves the British overseas territory of Gibraltar, The airport was constructed during World War II upon the territory's race course (introduced by the Maltese), when Gibraltar was an important naval base for the British.Originally opened in 1939, it was only an emergency airfield for the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm.However, the runway was later extended by reclaiming some land from the Bay of Gibraltar using rock blasted from the Rock of Gibraltar while carrying out works on military tunnels.This last major extension of the runway allowed larger aircraft to land at Gibraltar.In 2013 the airport handled 383,876 passengers and 351,867 kg of cargo on 3,564 total flights.Winston Churchill Avenue (the main road heading towards the land border with Spain) intersects the airport runway, and consequently has to be closed every time a plane lands or departs.The History Channel programme Most Extreme Airports ranked the airport the fifth most extreme airport in the world.Monarch is the largest operator at Gibraltar International, operating three weekly flights to London Luton, Manchester Airport and Birmingham.Both routes are operated by an Airbus A320-200. 
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