{"id":434,"date":"2016-04-05T23:06:54","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T03:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/?p=434"},"modified":"2016-04-06T20:45:38","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T00:45:38","slug":"no-more-mhtg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/no-more-mhtg\/","title":{"rendered":"No more MHTG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=v_z5HtME9n8\"><strong>You&#8217;ve seen the video<\/strong><\/a>; which gives some background to why MHTG\/Tegucigalpa is sometimes referred to as &#8220;the most dangerous airport in the world&#8221;. News over the weekend from Honduras confirmed a new $163 million airport is being developed. There have been <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Toncont%C3%ADn_International_Airport\">multiple incidents<\/a><\/strong> at the airport over the years, mostly due to the surrounding terrain and approach.<\/p>\n<p>The new airport, with a longer, 2440m\/8005 ft\u00a0runway, will be about 25nm\u00a0from the capital near the Palmerola military air base, and the president said &#8220;The new airport is meant as an alternative &#8220;so that passengers can land in an airport that does not put their lives at risk,&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re operating to Honduras, <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.fsbureau.org\/online\/guatemala-overflight-permit\">Landing permits<\/a> are required for all private non-revenue and charter (non-scheduled commercial) operations to Honduras, along with notification to \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/shop.fsbureau.org\/online\/cenamer-notification\">CENAMER<\/a>,\u201d a joint air traffic control service covering Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve seen the video; which gives some background to why MHTG\/Tegucigalpa is sometimes referred to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319],"tags":[331,320,322],"class_list":{"0":"post-434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news-item","8":"tag-honduras","9":"tag-mhtg","10":"tag-tegucigalpa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions\/449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}