DotM July 2025

Airport: MHTG - Toncontin Int'l Airport, Tegucigalpa, Honduras 

Flight Suggestion: To make this month challenging use a commercial flight, not general aviation

Officially this airport is no longer international.  This happened in November 2021 when all international flights moved to Comayagua International Airport (MHPR) located about 30nm to the northeast.  Toncontin is still open today to small aircraft and domestic flights allowing it to maintain status as one of the most difficult airport approaches in the world; ranked 2^nd most extreme by the History Channel documentary Most Extreme Airports.

Winds in this mountainous area require planes to typically land on RWY 02.  There are steep mountains directly to the north and south so aircraft cannot do a traditional straight in approach or take-off.  They must descend into a curvy valley and then do a final sharp turn to line up with the runway.  To make matters worse, there had been a large hill directly before the landing threshold that planes would barely avoid as they turned onto final.  This hill was flattened out in 2007 to make the approach slightly less harrowing.