This is an airport like no other – impressive enough to be a tourist attraction. So beautiful it’s worthy of a postcard. So spacious it should perhaps carry a trigger warning for agoraphobics.
Which makes the experience of being a passenger in Abu Dhabi’s new Zayed International Airport – comprising one single Terminal A – an utterly surreal one.
There’s no hassle, no jostling, no general sense of despair. No one likes a delay but here it means the chance