Airport to **where: Thousands of migrants stranded in abandoned Athens terminal
ATHENS - It's been 15 years since the last plane took off from the Greek capital's former international airport, which stretches along the Aegean Sea and lies a short drive south of the city centre.*
If things had gone according to plan, Ellinikon (also k**wn as Hellinikon) might have become Athens' equivalent of Tempelhof Airport in Berlin: a sprawling communal area where families, cyclists, skaters and kite-flyers whiz along the disused runways and revel in unkempt meadows that stretch out to the horizon.
But in crisis-hit Greece, **thing has gone according to plan. And the global financial collapse of 2008 sent Greece into eco**mic purgatory and ended hopes for the new metropolitan park.* Read more...
04-02-2016, 06:22 PM
Airport to **where: Thousands of migrants stranded in abandoned Athens terminal
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