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 ...

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 ...

Across the United States, hundreds of airports once echoed with the sounds of jet engines, rushing passengers, and the excitement of takeoffs. Today, many of those same airfields sit eerily silent, ...

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 ...

For 80 years after the bombing of Hiroshima, the airfields of Tinian Island, from where the bombers took off, were mostly abandoned to the jungle. Now, amid a push to strengthen America's military ...