Behind the Scenes - Fascination Airports

With enormous shopping centres and high end boutiques, restaurants and bars, lounges and entertainment areas airports are like self-contained miniature worlds.

It is a starting point for the people embarking on business or vacation travels. On average, circa 20,000 people work in airports, many of whom cannot imagine working anywhere else. For thousands of people, the airport is a place of longing – the place where they bid farewell to their loved ones or the meeting point where the welcome back into their lives.

The three part series, Fascination Airports, show the maintenance crew tasked with keeping the terminal spic and span, the hundreds of employees that ensure that there are no unnecessary delays and the biggest passenger airliner in the world – it is a trip behind the scenes.