Apparently Maho Beach in Aruba is not the only place in the world with an airport so close to publicly-accessible areas that planes fly feet above observers’ heads. According to this video, there’s one in Greece, but the narrator doesn’t say where. Anyone know?
Skiathos, apparently. This is one of those videos that gets reuploaded by a bunch of different channels and each time, a little of the context is lost.
BTW, Maho Beach is in Saint Martin, not Aruba.
I was close
I’d never wanna visit Aruba. If I could afford to I’d move to Saint Martin/Sint Maarten today.
What about Jamaica? Bermuda? Bahama? Key Largo, Montego, why don’t we go…
What’s wrong with Aruba, in your opinion?
They’re 600 miles apart.
I thought you didn’t like opinions in Factual Questions.
I love Jamaica, Dominica, St Martin, Barbados. Aruba hasn’t anything unique to offer and is extremely touristy. OK, I’d accept an all expense paid trip there.
I saw, only yesterday, that there is only one foreign fast food restaurant in Bermuda - a single KFC. After it opened they were banned. I have no information about fast food places in Jamaica, Bahama, Key Largo or Montego if you go…

Skiathos, apparently.
I looked it up on Google Maps. Anyone know why the airport is pixelated out and the rest of the island isn’t?

I looked it up on Google Maps. Anyone know why the airport is pixelated out and the rest of the island isn’t?
Greek military installation, maybe???

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Yeah, probably a military airstrip accepting civilian flights.
All greek airports are censored… Skiathos airport has never had anything to do with military ,
I’ve been to Skaithos. The airport beach is a novelty, nothing more; it’s quite small and remote from most of the tourist beaches, and you only go there to get blown around by turbulence for a laugh.
The weirdest thing is that the runway is too short to allow fully fueled international flights to take off; so the plane has to stop off in Thessalonika to finish fueling the plane before you can go home.
Huh. Interesting. Is the rationale for this documented anywhere? (I would speculate, but look where that just got me!)
Apparently most Greek airports are pixelated on Google Maps but not on Bing Maps, for some reason. Here’s Skiathos airport at higher resolution.
FWIW, that Wizz Air pilot in the OP is goofing up pretty thoroughly. or showing off dangerously, which is probably worse. There ought to be at least 40, and more like 60, feet of air below his wheels as he crosses the beach at the south end of the runway. Which this appears to be.
Yeah, the runway is darn short. But not so short that an A321 at landing weight needs to be down there scraping people’s heads off.