Ryanair to start flights from Spanish ‘ghost’ airport
Castellon airport, on the eastern Mediterranean coast 70km north of Valencia, was built at a cost of €150m during the country’s building bonanza which ended in a 2008 crash and a bailout of its banking system.
The airport was the pet project of local People’s Party politician, Carlos Fabra, now serving time in jail for tax fraud, and became a symbol of how Spain’s regional governments rashly spent billions on grand projects in the boom years.
