We got a taxi from our hotel to Barra Airport and arrived at around 9.30 a.m., just over two hours before our flight to Glasgow was due to depart at 11.50 a.m. . Our taxi driver told us that we ...

Barra's airport is unusual, as it's the only one in the world where regularly scheduled commercial flights use a beach as the runway. I flew to the island from my home in Glasgow on a tiny plane ...

Located on the small Isle of Barra in Scotland's remote Outer Hebrides, 40 miles off the West Coast of Scotland, Barra Airport's runway disappears twice a day, becoming lost to the tide.

Winner Barra airport received just over 22% of the vote. Licensed as an airfield in 1936, planes touch down on the beach at Traigh Mhor at the northern end of the island.