OurAirports: Comments on Lukla Airport http://www.ourairports.com/airports/VNLK/comments.html Comments left by OurAirports members who have visited Lukla Airport. [VNLK] "STOL and rotorcraft only" by david http://www.ourairports.com/comments.html?comment=1038 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:23:17 -0500 http://www.ourairports.com/comments.html?comment=1038 <p>The runway is short (1,500 ft) at high elevation (over 9,000 ft), so the airport is accessible only to helicopters and to STOL aircraft like Twin Otters.</p> [VNLK] "Airport to be renamed" by david http://www.ourairports.com/comments.html?comment=1037 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:21:41 -0500 http://www.ourairports.com/comments.html?comment=1037 <p>The Nepal government plans to rename the airport in honour of Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary, the first people to climb Mt. Everest (the airport serves Everest).</p>