Westray Airport


Westray Airport is an airport at Aikerness, on Westray in the Orkney Islands, Scotland.
Westray Aerodrome has a CAA Ordinary Licence that allows flights for the public transport of passengers or for flying instruction as authorised by the licensee. It is also the start point for the European teams of the Greenland Air Trophy. The aerodrome is not licensed for night use.

Runway

Westray Airport is best known for the Loganair Westray to Papa Westray route being one of the shortest scheduled flight in the world, a leg of Loganair's inter-island service to Papa Westray Airport. The distance is and the scheduled flight time, including taxiing, is two minutes.
The airport was previously known for having the shortest commercial runway in the world with runway 01/19 having a declared LDA distance of just. However, this runway is no longer in use.