Flight was a great addition to the way people moved around the world. However, suddenly we needed somewhere to land the darn aeroplanes. As planes became bigger and air travel grew commercially, airports needed a lot more space, and that wasn’t always possible. Sometimes cities were so high that the logistics of taking off and landing became trickier. Sometimes the conditions facilitated a need to do things differently.

Well, some airports managed to adapt to what was required, and here are five of them:

Unconventional is our nature and we at Versus salute these the out-of-the-box and unusual thoughts that went into designing these unconventional airports.

1) Gibraltar Airport

2) The Ice Runway – Antarctica

3) Kansai International Airport (Osaka, Japan)

4) Qamdo Bangda Airport (Tibet)

5) Princess Juliana International Airport, Saint Maarten

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