Long TextExercise 47 of 83

The 'world's most useless airport' is about to welcome its first commercial passenger flight, five years later than planned. Environmental and geographical challenges famously delayed the opening of the airport on St Helena, one of the most isolated inhabited islands on the planet, and the project was saddled with…

• Why has it taken so long for this island to get an airport?
• What does the writer mean by the word moniker in the first paragraph?