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A building designed to make you arrive two hours before you actually need to.
means A complex of runways and terminals where aircraft take off, land, and passengers and cargo get loaded and unloaded.
from A straightforward 20th-century compound: 'air' plus 'port,' the latter borrowed from the much older sense of 'port' as a harbor where ships dock and goods change hands. As flight went from stunt to industry, the language simply repurposed the seafaring word — an airport is a harbor for the sky, built the moment humans needed a word for where planes could 'dock.'
- first airport
- College Park, Maryland, opened 1909 for Wright planes
- busiest airport
- Atlanta handles a plane roughly every minute
- security theater
- Shoe removal started after one failed bomber in 2001
- retail trick
- Terminals layout shops to maximize wandering before boarding