The Ghost Airport of Aragón

There was an good piece yesterday about the epistemic collapse of the Iran war: nobody has any idea of what the facts are on the ground, and the information bubbles we all (separately) occupy are not communicating across to each other. Some interesting stories are emerging though, sometimes on the periphery of it all.

One of these stories concerns the airport of Teruel – Caudé in Aragón. This is not an airport for passengers. Rather, it’s a facility for aircraft maintenance and storage. When the war broke out, it began to receive big jetliners from the fleets of the Gulf States airlines to take refuge from the war. Planes from Qatar Airways, whose home base is Doha, are especially represented as part of the new arrivals, with about 20 of their widebody jets having come in by last Saturday.