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 ...

On the southern edge of Athens, the cracked runways of a decommissioned airport are being erased by cranes, concrete mixers and saplings. The Ellinikon, once the main gateway to Greece, is being ...

Our Aug. 10 column, “What happened to Haile Field, a lost Austin airport north of Hyde Park?” generated considerable reader interest. Taken from American-Statesman articles from the 1930s through the ...

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 ...