Spain enthusiastically built a $1.1 billion airport outside Madrid, large enough for even an Airbus A380 to land. Forget the superjumbo; no tourists used it, and the authorities had to sell it for the price of a steel Rolex.
byIn the sun-scorched plains of central Spain sits a monument to ambition gone awry. Ciudad Real Central Airport—with its gleaming terminal, pristine runway, and…