When the first commercial flight touched down on the virgin runway at Castellón in September it seemed to spell an end to the troubles of Spain’s infamous ghost airport.
It’s taken more than four-and-a-half years but on Tuesday morning at 10.40 the first ever commercial flight touched down on the virgin runway at Spain’s infamous ghost airport of Castellón.
As the eastern Spanish city of Castellón is poised to become the latest travel hotspot in Spain thanks to new Ryanair routes to its "ghost airport", The Local takes a look at some of the best properties the city has to offer.
The runway has yet to have an aircraft touch down on its tarmac, but more than four years after opening, Castellón airport will welcome its first passengers.
Spain's infamous ghost airport Castellón airport is set to open nearly four years after its official inauguration with football club Villareal FC being touted as first customers, Spanish media are reporting.
Carlos Fabra, the man responsible for Spain's infamous 'ghost airport' in Castellón finally went to prison on tax fraud charges on Monday, after a decade-long legal battle and a lengthy appeals process.
Carlos Fabra, the man behind Spain's infamous 'ghost airport' in Castellón, will spend four years in prison on charges of tax fraud after the Supreme Court rejected his appeal against the sentence.
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One of Spain's infamous ghost airports goes up for sale on Monday with the opening bid set at €100 million ($137 million), or a tenth of original construction costs.
Imagine a politician who always wears sunglasses, who has won the lottery nine times, and who has even had a statue erected in his own honour. All sound a bit shady? That’s Carlos Fabra, The Local’s Spanish Face of the Week.
If you have a spare €100 million ($133 million) lying around, you might just fancy snapping up the 'ghost airport' of the central Spanish city of Ciudad Real.
A group of disgruntled prisoners rioted against conditions in a Spanish jail recently in an incident which saw prison guards punched, kicked and even bitten.
Spanish police on Tuesday arrested about 20 suspected members of a mafia group thought to be involved in an international drug-running empire worth around a billion euros, a judicial source said.
The €45 million-airport of Huesca in Spain's far north welcomed just four passengers in March as the facility signed off on a dismal start to the year.
