Raleigh-Durham, San Jose and Portland airports: Colourful pasts and hope for the future

Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and St Louis airports were developed and then partly abandoned. In this review, we look at three smaller cities that had hopes raised and then dashed; but to quite different outcomes, and each with some hope for the future. The three are Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina (RDU), San Jose, California (SJC) and Portland, Oregon (PDX).