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For years, the Central Florida Expressway Authority has been eyeing a route to connect State Road 417 to the growing Orlando Sanford International Airport.. Now the Expressway Authority has ...
Once little more than the administrative capital of sleepy Nayarit, Tepic is loud, proud and sporting a brand new ...
Foreigners — and residents — long avoided Bari’s old town, which had been plagued by mob crime. Now, with direct flights from the U.S. starting, residents are excited, but wary.
Next is Spain’s Ciudad Real Central Airport, built far from Madrid, which struggled to attract passengers and ended up a giant aircraft storage facility.
Unfortunately, the delays to construct Ciudad Real Central Airport saw Madrid’s Barajas Terminal 4 to become operational first. Thus, the need for the alternative airport was reduced and plans ...
Ciudad Real Central Airport, Spain. Africa Twin/Wikimedia Commons/Public domain. Ciudad Real Central Airport in central Spain opened in 2008 to much fanfare, but the massive infrastructure project, ...
Ciudad Real Central Airport (CQM), also known as Don Quijote Airport, opened in 2008 with the hope that it would have become a major transport hub akin to Madrid Barajas Airport (MAD). It was Spain’s ...
Reportedly constructed at a cost of over €1 billion, Ciudad Real Central Airport was operationalised in 2009 with high hopes — but it quickly turned into a ghost town.
An Airport with No Flights but Plenty of Odd Uses. Despite new ownership, Ciudad Real Central Airport never fulfilled its commercial purpose. Instead, it found a new life in unexpected ways. During ...
Built as Spain’s first private international airport, Ciudad Real Central Airport failed to attract airlines and passengers. Built with $1 billion USD (~1.6 billion AUD), it was eventually sold ...