Love/Hate

Fancy New Airports Can’t Fix the Most Harmful Part of Air Travel

They may actually make it worse

Jake Bittle
Published in
7 min readDec 10, 2018

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Future SKYCITY Hong Kong development design concept. Credit: Airport Authority Hong Kong.

YYou wouldn’t know it navigating the LaGuardias and Newarks of the world, but airports are getting bigger and fancier. As air travelers fly millions more miles every year, countries are turning away from the utilitarian facilities of decades past and toward…

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Jake Bittle
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Reporter and researcher based in Brooklyn.