—and probably pushing 40 years old in many cases. We need more pavement or hard surfacing in order to allow the operators to upgrade their fleets to provide more economical and better service.
Many of the runways are still short. The design aircraft of the day was the DC-3, for crying out loud, for a lot of the runways in the Arctic. Things have changed.
Runway approaches, runway lighting, and fuel availability at times—again, all basic infrastructure—continue to be the challenges, more for the carriers.