Ascension Island to reopen to widebody traffic by 2022
The runway at Georgetown Wideawake Airport on Ascencion Island will be repaired by 2022 allowing AirTanker-operated A330-200 flights to return, Fluor, the company which won the contract, said in a statement. The USD170 million-dollar deal to upgrade the 3,...
Once heard a joke that they tell the newly assigned military guys about how there's a woman behind every tree on Ascension Island. They were pulling their leg, because once the guys arrived, they saw that there were no trees on the island to speak of. Ascension is about as remote as one can get.
also, none of the citizens are indigenous to Ascension Island.