Transportation
One of Spain's Infamous Ghost Airports Finally Comes to Life
Some good news for the Spanish economy.
“They say that we’re crazy for inaugurating an airport without planes,” Carlos Fabra, a local politician, told reporters about Spain’s Castellón Airport when it opened in 2011 without having signed a single commercial airline operator. “They don’t understand anything,” he said. “[T]his is an airport for people.”
Four years later, Fabra is in prison for tax fraud, but there’s better news for Castellón: The airport, which hasn't seen a commercial flight since it opened, now has its first operator. The European budget airline Ryanair announced this week that it would begin to run flights between the U.K. and the eastern region of Spain in September.