Lukla Airport

 Trekkers, hikers and expeditioners will generally take Lukla fIi order to start their adventures in the Everest region. Tenzing-Hit Airport (IATA: LUA, ICAO: VNLK), popularly known as Lukla Airpoi a small and busy airstrip in the mountain slope of Lukla of Solukhumbu district. In 2010, History Channel had aired a progra titled Most Extreme Airports and rated Lukla airport as the most  dangerous airport in the world.
In January 2008 this airport was renamed renamed Tenzing-Hillary Airport in honor of Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, th first people to reach the summit of Mt. Everest in 1953 and also to mark their efforts in the shaping of this airport.

 The airport is popular and known to almost all the travellers because Lukla is the point from where most adventure en and luxury trekkers start their journey to Khumbu region . Base Camp. It is the busiest domestic airport in the mour of Nepal. There are daily flights between Lukla and Kathir daylight hours in good weather. Lukla flights or flights to• Hillary airport starts in the early morning to mid day. The normally start from 6:30  till 15:30 . Although the flyi is short, rain commonly occurs in Lukla while the sun is sl brightly in Kathmandu. High winds, cloud cover, and chant visibility often mean flight delay or the airport closed. Th contained within a chain link fence and patrolled by the Ni police or civil police round the clock.

 The airport's paved asphalt runway is only accessible to and small, fixed-wing, short-takeoff-and-landing aircraft De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter, Dornier Do 228, ai PC-6 Turbo Porter. The runway is 460 by 20 m (1,510 by 61 12% gradient. The elevation of the airport is 2,800 m (9,. Aircraft can only use runway 06 for landings and runwa) takeoffs.There is no prospect of a successful go-around c due to the terrain. There is high terrain immediately beyi northern end of the runway and a steeply angled drop at t end of the runway into the valley below.

 The apron has four stands and there is one helipad located 140m (460 ft) from the control tower. No landing aids are available and the  only air traffic service is an Aerodrome Flight Information Service.