The “Ghost Airport”, which was abandoned one billion dollars, was sold at a used car price

• Ciudad Real Central Airport was built as the first international airport in Spain, in attracting airlines and passengers.
• It was designed at a low cost of $ 1 billion (about $ 1.6 billion), and was finally sold at a low cost after years of giving up.
• It is now mainly used to store goods, store aircraft and cross cross.

In an era in which the main transportation centers are struggling with overwhelming traffic, building new airports should be a safe bet, right? Well, not completely. Spain Ciudad Real Center Airport It was the private sector of a flight from the private sector, which was supposed to reduce congestion at Madrid’s main airport.

Instead, it was one of the largest flying infrastructure in the history of aviation and became billions of dollars with a “ghost airport” with its outskirts in a frightening way and the corridors were abandoned as no airlines or passengers appeared attention to using their facilities.

Ascending and falling the dream of flying

This airport was built during the construction boom in Spain in the middle of the first decade of the twentieth century, and at that time, the idea of ​​the airport seemed to be 150 miles southern Madrid. The Ciudad Real Center was opened in 2008, and it was fully operated by 2009, and Ciudad Real Center had all the appropriate facilities including a huge runway of 4000 meters (one of the longest Europe), the ability to deal with 10 million passengers annually, and the freight facilities that were able to deal with 47,000 tons.

The stadium was simple-low-cost airlines and will overwhelm international flights, and Madrid Airport Bragas He will breathe a sigh of relief. But there was only one small problem: no one wanted to land there because the area was very far away. Airlines and passengers alike gave one look at the site, gave a collective ignorance, and commented with Madrid.

Financial financial

By 2013, the airport’s financial fall was indescribable. It was offered to the auction at an opening price of $ 100 million (about $ 160 million in Australian), but no buyers appeared any interest even after the prices were reduced. Then came the moment that closed its place in the Air Airroom. In 2015, a Chinese investment company bought it for only $ 10,000 (about 16,000 Aud), which was less than the first -leg ticket to a first -class forth on some flights that were supposed to be treated. The price was so low that the Spanish courts closed the deal and argued that the airport station and parking station were not included in the sale.

The drama did not stop there. In 2015, another person was interested in buying the airport for $ 28 million (about 45 million Australian dollars), but this deal also collapsed. Finally, in 2018, Ciudad Real Center found a new owner of $ 56.2 million (about 88 million Australian dollars), but this is still a billion dollar return story.

The facility finally managed to attract aircraft while Covid-19 But this has nothing to do with commercial trips. During the epidemic, it was used as cars for cars for founding aircraft and stored aircraft instead of sending them to the sky. The airport has also been used for some individual jobs along the road, including work as a site for photography and dealing with private aviation services from time to time.

In 2024, the Spanish government briefly thought about turning it into a migrant reception center, but this plan did not go far because the local opposition rejected it as soon as it suggested. Today, the real CIUDAD Central Airport, an ambitious international center, has never been used, just as a shipping facility