The largest purpose-driven travel flow on earth passes through the most commercially aspirational spaces on earth, and the dissonance is jarring if you stop long enough to watch who is actually walking past the glittering Hermes store...
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This is a companion piece to my column earlier this month on the competing theories of national relevance playing out across Gulf hub airports. That essay was analytical: frameworks, competitive positioning, terminal inflation. This one is personal.
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