I live near Denver and have been to the Airport many times. It strikes me as being just another airport, but with an extra large helping of stupidity heaped on. It's easy to mistake stupidity, which can be hard to explain, for conspiracy, which offers easy explanations.

The "billion dollar" baggage handling system is not only an industry joke, it is a virtual monument to stupidity. It does an excellent job of tossing luggage great distances and scattering the contents across the floor. It is second only to the package-smashing equipment used by the US Postal Service. It did, however, provide hours of entertainment for local TV viewers as the local news checked in periodically and showed film of the high-speed baggage train launching a load of test luggage into the air. The entertainment value was probably less than a billion, though. Coverage ended with a film of the Internationally renowned German engineering firm called in to fix it laughing as they went home in defeat the next day.

Upon completion, it was discovered the runways were built too close together for large airplanes to pass each other.

A big selling point was that the airport would be weather-proof, eliminating delays due to snow storms.(1)The super high-tech fiberglass teflon terminal roof, designed to resemble a giant caterpillar, has openings in it to allow for ventilation. The first time it snowed, snow came in the openings and shorted out the overhead lights in the terminal. (2) For the grand opening day of the airport, flights were scheduled into the airport from various cities across America. It snowed that day and all the landings were delayed due to inclement weather.

They ran out of money before it was finished and the new airport came up one runway short, making it smaller than the old airport. The plowed and graded for the last runway but they couldn't afford to pave it. Denver now has one of the longest dirt runways in the world.

There is much more - this is a continuing saga.

If this is a conspiracy, the conspirators are first rate idiots.

O'Meara