Early next year, aviation will help change life on the remote British outpost of St. Helena. For decades, the routine on the South Atlantic island has been on a three-week cycle, dependent on the comings and goings of a mail ship, the RMS St. Helena that brings supplies and visitors from Cape Town, South Africa. But the opening of the island's first airport in early 2016-at a cost of £201.5 million ($300.2 million) financed by the British government-will open St. Helena to tourism and, it hopes, set the island on a course to self-sus-tainability.
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