Skip to content
Lomond Voyages

The Right Voyage. The Right Advice.

Reel

Watching Planes Land at St. Barts Airport From the Hill​

Lomond VoyagesAugust 31, 2026

St. Barts is a small French island in the northern Caribbean, with a harbor at Gustavia that fills with yachts the way Monaco’s does.​

​Its only airport has a runway 2,119 feet long with a hill at one end and the beach at the other. On arrival, planes land over the hill at about twice the angle of a normal approach, low enough over the road that you feel the air move.​

​It’s the kind of place you’d visit for the beaches, yachts, and shopping, but leave talking about all the planes you saw land.​

​
#Shorts #Silversea #CaribbeanCruise​