{"id":124490,"date":"2015-07-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/ciudad-real-central-airport-in-spain-sold-for-just-e10000-at-auction\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T21:57:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T19:57:43","slug":"ciudad-real-central-airport-in-spain-sold-for-just-e10000-at-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/ciudad-real-central-airport-in-spain-sold-for-just-e10000-at-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Ciudad Real Central Airport in Spain Sold for Just \u20ac10,000 at Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Ciudad Real Central Airport, built over 200 km from Madrid following a \u20ac1 billion investment, was sold at auction for just \u20ac10,000.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The airport, designed for a traffic of 10 million passengers per year, featured a 4 km runway, considered the longest in Europe, a visitor center, a vast industrial park, and a 50 m high control tower. It also had good access to the national highway network and generous parking spaces.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Inaugurated in 2008, the airport never attracted more than a few flights per week, well below its capacity. No aircraft has landed at Ciudad Real since April 2012, when it was officially closed.<\/div>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailybusiness.ro\" data-wplink-url-error=\"true\">Daily Business<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Why was Ciudad Real Central Airport sold for so little?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The airport was sold for \u20ac10,000 at auction because it was a failed project that had been closed since 2012 and lacked commercial viability.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What was the original investment in the airport?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The airport cost approximately \u20ac1 billion to build before it was inaugurated in 2008.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are the main features of the airport?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It features a 4 km runway (one of Europe&#8217;s longest), a 50m control tower, and capacity for 10 million passengers annually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ciudad Real Central Airport, built over 200 km from Madrid following a \u20ac1 billion investment, was sold at auction for just \u20ac10,000.&nbsp; The airport, designed for a traffic of 10 million passengers per year, featured a 4 km runway, considered the longest in Europe, a visitor center, a vast industrial park, and a 50 m&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":65523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2856],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-124490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conectivity"],"article_style_override":"","post-style":"","post_via":"","post-top-image":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/transport-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124490"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=124490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}