The forgotten airports of the future – what happened to the next big hubs and why did they get abandoned? Our writer find ...

Once symbols of progress and power, airports now stand frozen in time — empty control towers, silent terminals, and cracked runways that stretch into the past. From Cold War relics to futuristic ...

Dennis David Auger/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY SA 4.0 There’s something especially eerie about airports that were once filled with people now lying empty and abandoned. Air travel has rapidly evolved over ...

Mirabel International Airport in Montreal was designed to be the world's largest in 1975, but after displacing 10,000 residents, it closed for passenger flights in 2004 and its terminal was demolished ...

Newer airports, wars, bad design, and financial miscalculations are some of the reasons we have so many abandoned airports around the world. They sit empty, their runways cracked, and terminals ...

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