The infrastructure upgrade aims to future-proof the Mediterranean against a catastrophic shortfall in overtourism.
BARCELONA — Spanish airport operator Aena has finalized a €1.7 billion terminal expansion to ensure the city’s residents maintain a steady, year-round supply of foreign visitors to actively loathe. The infrastructure upgrade, alongside parallel runway extensions in Venice and Mallorca, is designed to protect the region from a potential dip in unbearable congestion.
The finalized master plan for El Prat airport includes a new satellite terminal and runway extension that will safely deliver an additional 15 million targets for local water-gun protests by 2031. According to Aena’s quarterly sustainability filing, the expansion features a LEED-certified arrivals hall engineered to seamlessly funnel stag parties directly into the city's collapsing housing market.
Our climate modeling showed that without immediate infrastructure intervention, Barcelona was at risk of dropping below peak unbearable capacity by the end of the decade.
In Venice, airport operator SAVE SpA is currently executing a €1 billion expansion of Marco Polo Airport, a move officials say is crucial to maintaining the structural degradation of the Grand Canal. The operator’s latest environmental impact assessment confirmed the new terminal will be entirely powered by renewable energy as it imports 20 million annual day-trippers to a city that is actively charging them a €5 entry fee to stay away.
An IPCC working group on Mediterranean infrastructure noted that while local municipalities have passed aggressive caps on cruise ships and short-term rentals, the parallel expansion of every regional airport ensures the transition to total unlivability remains firmly on schedule for 2030.