Bodø Airport — Bodø, Norway

Bodø Airport, coded BOO, sits above the Arctic Circle in Norway's Nordland county at an elevation of 42 feet, sharing its one runway with a Norwegian Air Force base, a dual arrangement typical of several airports in this part of the country. The field serves as a key transport link for northern Norway, connecting the city of Bodø to Oslo, Tromsø, and smaller regional airfields serving the Lofoten Islands, a chain of dramatic peaks rising straight from the sea. Bodø itself sits at the edge of the Saltfjorden, close to the Saltstraumen, one of the world's strongest tidal currents, and the airport handles both the steady flow of business travel and the seasonal surge of visitors drawn north to see the midnight sun in summer and the aurora borealis through the long polar winter nights. Fishing and shipping traffic through the nearby port also generate a portion of the airport's cargo business, tying BOO closely to the region's maritime economy.