Kulula Airlines

Until they built the new airport in the south of the island, Tenerife airport was one of the scariest as it was high up in the mountains and was subject to sudden and unpredictable up drafts that caused many a scary moments on final approach as you came in from seaward.
Our honeymoon was spent there and after a very wobbly approach it almost was enough to put of our first night of passion for my wife and self as we needed lots of alcohol to calm our nerves after we got into our hotel.
A few years previous to our honeymoon there had been two horrendous crashes there, one where a landing plane crashed onto a plane taking off followed a few years later by an aircraft crashing on landing, the burnt out wreck of which was still lying there when we arrived for our honeymoon.
Why I chose Tenerife for our honeymoon I have no idea as having joined a ship there previously I was well aware of the scary approach. The ship I joined was a tanker and I can vividly remember being tied up discharging and having the flights going over the top of us on their final approach with their engines going full tilt, flaps extended and altering angle all the time as pilots fought to wrestle the plane down. There were often aborted landings, you would hear the engines go full ahead and the plane would appear going round in a circle to make another approach. We were moored right at the base of the cliffs in the Islands principal port and were pumping avgas up to the airport some hundreds of meters above sea level and some kilometres from us so the back pressure on the line was high, resulting in a very slow discharge. I had flown out as 3rd Mate, with two first trip cadets with me also joining. After eventually landing after a very rough approach one of them barely made it off the plane before calling for Hughie at the bottom of the ladder.
Weirdly enough though, the same lad was never sea sick on his first trip which after a couple of calls at West African ports to complete discharge {Doula, Lagos , Abidjan plus one more I forget} we ended up in the Tyne for dry docking after a particularly rough crossing of Biscay.
rgds
JA