Passengers spent more time admiring this view than any other on the list.

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Hello and welcome to today's independent travel podcast with me, Simon Calder.

It's Tuesday the 8th of April.

And the voice you just heard was that of Amelia Neath, my excellent colleague on the

Travel Desk, because today is Travel Desk Tuesday. Amelia works on a wide range of stories, but the one

that really caught my attention this week was the most beautiful airport landings in the world ranked. You can find that online at

the independent.com.uk forward slash travel. But Amelia, talk us through this. Who did the survey?

And what were their criteria? So a travel insurance company called Allclear got together 100 participants and they used

eye tracking technology showing them a series of images of 32 airport runways from around the

world that are known for their breathtaking views, the passengers as they come into land.

And they got together a top 10, largely including a lot with beautiful

natural surroundings such as Tuckoys Bays, magnificent mountains, all that sort of stuff. So in 10th place,

we had Lookler Airport that tied with a airport in Hawaii.

Also included in the top 10 was Innesbrook Airport,

the Himalayan surrounded airport in Bhutan.

If I can just interrupt there, so a couple of Himalayan airports there,

I've not been lucky enough to fly into either Paro Airport in Bhutan or Lukla Airport in Nepal, but they do look fairly challenging. Innsbruck Airport, I do know, and that is spectacular. It's what's known

as a Category C airport, which means that you have to be specially trained to fly into it if you're a pilot

because, well, you're flying down an alpine valley.

It's a lovely place, actually, just to go in a plane spot or sit and drink coffee while you are waiting for your plane to arrive and hoping it hasn't been diverted to Munich.

Please carry on.

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