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Often landing (or take-off) offers very beautiful sights over travel destinations.

Knowing this would be a great way to start a travel. Unfortunately, I've lost this oportunity, several times for ignorance. One is either tired, focused on something else or just picked the wrong sit for that particular flight loosing the beautiful views.

I was wondering if there is a ranking or a guide with the airports offering the most beautiful landings ?

From such list I would expect information like what you can see. This probably is dependent on the landing/take off direction but such information could also be there.

I googled the question before posting here. There are many articles about it, but most offer a limited amount of airports (around 20); The information is a bit poor and the articles are more about showing pictures than actually giving real information.

most beautiful landings

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A friend of mine published his top five here: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/27496732-post19.html

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Just to get the ball rolling, here's a guide to the most beautiful airports (per se) in the world ...

https://www.thrillist.com/home/the-most-beautiful-airports-in-the-world

so, that's not exactly what you're asking ("guide to most beautiful outlook as you land/takeoff") but it's a start.

Secondly, here's a major UK newspaper's list of exactly what you are asking,

"The most beautiful airport approaches in the world..."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-2998626/A-beach-Scotland-Colorado-runway-surrounded-14-000ft-peaks-tiny-tarmac-strip-Mustique-beautiful-airport-approaches-world.html

Finally here's a discussion by pilots on the issue ...

http://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=157237

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