When Denver International Airport opened on February 28th, 1995, construction had fallen behind schedule by 16 months and $2 Billion over budget. The final cost for the airport was $4.8 Billion, which people wondered what the money had gone towards as it was a lot of money. The airport itself is 35,000 acres, which is almost twice the size of the next biggest airport. Most of the original cost increases and schedule delays were caused by changes to the size of the airport, including widening and lengthening concourses and adding an automated baggage system. The airport's runway looks like a Swastika. An aerial view of the airport runways seems to resemble the shape of a Swastika. An airport representative has said the runways are designed that way so that they can be used simultaneously no matter the weather since none of the runways overlap. They told the UK's The Telegraph "We think the shape looks like a pinwheel". The airport's dedicatio...
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