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Each day 3 million passengers get on airplanes bound for destinations around the world. At any given moment there are 10,000 aircraft in the air. International Airports goes behind the scenes to show the complex inner workings that make international air travel possible. The show takes the viewer high up in the most advanced air traffic control tower on earth, deep into the air cargo holds that makes lighting speed international trade possible, behind the scenes of high-tech internal security and inside the procedures of international customs. It takes the viewer into the future with the airports of tomorrow and into the past to show how dirt strips developed into massive air terminals. International Airports explores the exciting early days of aviation with flying airboats and ocean platforms, daredevil pilots and swashbuckling entrepreneurs. And it shows how war and peace drove aviation and airports forward through history to today, when international air travel has transformed the world as we know it.