6 Airports So Isolated Pilots Need Extra Fuel Reserves Just To Fly There

Fuel planning is one of the most important aspects of international travel. An aircraft normally departs with enough fuel to reach its destination, account for contingencies, divert to an alternate airport if necessary, and still retain some reserve. But that formula becomes considerably more complicated when the destination is thousands of miles from another suitable runway. At the world's most isolated airports, pilots and dispatchers have to consider what happens after the aircraft reaches its point of no return.