State Agency for Air Security has found that main strip is too narrow for planes to turn around
Regional officials have kept problem under wraps since April 2011
MARÍA FABRA Castellón 14 FEB 2012 – 20:45 CET
The airport in Castellón — a controversial multi-million-euro regional air facility that was inaugurated last year but hasn’t seen a single plane land — will soon see its air strips being torn up. The State Agency for Air Security has found that its main strip is too narrow for airplanes to turn around, and will have to be widened to meet regulations.
Regional officials found out about the narrow-runway problem in April 2011, when the airport was inaugurated, but kept it under wraps. The airport, the brainchild of former provincial leader Carlos Fabra, was never opened because it still doesn’t have the proper permits to receive air traffic.
The private contractor hired to run the airport for 50 years is demanding that the Valencia government reimburse the airport management firm the sum of 80 million euros for canceling its contract.
via Airstrip at Castellón’s plane-free airport needs to be widened | In english | EL PAÍS.
Another day in paradise 
Sir
What a disgrace this all is! Unfortunately we bought a house in Sant Mateu as an investment having been told that the new airport, only 20 minutes away, would be open in 2007…..
Knowing Spanish Officials as we do the incompetence involved in this project comes as no surprise……. Perhaps the site will now become a monument to Spanish Incompetence…. and make its money through tourists interested in visiting such monumental ‘cock-ups’ !!