By the time Denver's Stapleton International Airport closed down in February 1995, the airport's inability to handle bad weather, the cause of chronic delays, was beyond legendary — it was a joke.
"The joke was that if Stapleton sneezed, the rest of the country caught a cold," said Travis Vallin, since 2010 a principal at Jviation, a Denver-based airport engineering and design firm, and before that the director of aeronautics at the Colorado Department of Transportation.
Locals complained —…
By the time Denver's Stapleton International Airport closed down in February 1995, the airport's inability to handle bad weather, the cause of chronic delays, was beyond legendary — it was a joke.
"The joke was that if Stapleton sneezed, the rest of the country caught a cold," said Travis Vallin, since 2010 a principal at Jviation, a Denver-based airport engineering and design firm, and before that the director of aeronautics at the Colorado Department of Transportation.
Locals complained —…