I see lots of videos where planes (so their pilots..) struggle while they are landing because of air conditions. so if windy air is problem for plane, why we didn’t built airports to no-wind areas at the first place?
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Wind can help just as much as it hurts.
Just that about the only wind that really ‘helps’ here is a tail wind – wind going in the same direction the plane is – which helps it maintain speed, it uses less fuel, and is overall a good thing.
Any other direction is either a cross wind (sideways) or head wind (pushing against the plain, opposite it’s direction). And those – while more difficulty to take off, land, or fly in, are not *usually* such a big concern that it’s going to massively change where they decide to plop an airport down.
Most of that is going to depend on whatever size the city is.
Imagine if you lived in Chicago – the literal Windy City – except the closest airport was a 6 hour drive in (pick a direction). Lots of people *from* Chicago wouldn’t go out of their way to schedule flights because of the hassle, and lots of tourists *visiting* Chicago wouldn’t bother with the 6 hour drive to visit and do tourist stuff.
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