Lungi International Airport — Freetown (Lungi-Town), Sierra Leone

Lungi International Airport, marked by the code FNA, presents one of the more unusual arrival experiences in West Africa because it sits across a wide river estuary from Freetown, the Sierra Leonean capital it nominally serves. Travelers historically completed their journey by ferry, water taxi, or helicopter across the Sierra Leone River, a final leg that could take longer than the international flight itself. The inconvenience has long been cited among the more notorious airport-to-city transfers anywhere in the world. Despite the logistical hurdles, FNA functions as Sierra Leone's principal gateway, handling the bulk of the country's international flights, aid and humanitarian traffic, and a slowly recovering tourism sector following the civil war and the Ebola outbreak of the previous decade. Plans to build a bridge or road link have circulated for years without completion.