Grand Isle International Airport

Port dell'aire internacional de Gran Isle (Eng: Grand Isle International Airport) is the main airport for the Ile Burgundie. Originally built to supplement the overtaxed regional airports of Vilauristre and Port Diteaux in the mid 1960s, the airport exploded in growth when the City of Vilauristre Transportation Commission lost a pair of lawsuits in the mid 1980s, against residents complaining about the air pollution from increased air traffic and another after a crash in an adjoining neighborhood killed 16 people and destroyed 46 houses. Consumers from metro-Vilauristre started flocking to Mattiusvale to protest the Vilauristre airport and to take advantage of the lower fares. In 2004, Vilauristre International Airport filed for bankruptcy and Mattiusvale International absorbed the assets, creating the Grand Isle Mass Transit Authority. By 2016 the airport's total area was 33,531 acres (13,570 ha, 52.4 sq mi), making it the largest in The Burgundies and amongst the largest in the world. It is one of the few airports that serve commercial supersonic air travel. It is a massive employer on the Ile Burgundie with a social and economic impact on 146,600 people.

History
Originally a private airfield built in the 1920s by the eccentric inventor Eouard Eouse, the land served as a testing ground for his experimentations in both fixed and rotary wing flight. In the 1940s he died in a crash of one of his ill-fated inventions and his widow sold the airstrip and outbuildings to the burgeoning Army Air Branch as a flight school. With the restructuring of the Navy of Burgundie the field was transferred to them. By the late 1950s, a bigger base was needed and St. Mattius Naval Airfield was built a few kilometers away. The strip lay dormant until 1961 when the Chamber of Commerce of Mattiusvale took a leap of faith and offered to buy it to build a passenger aerodrome to profit from the overflow at both the Vilauristre and Port Diteaux city airports. In 1962 an agreement was reached and the city was allowed to lease the land from the Navy for 25 years, at which point the Navy would do an assessment to see if they could sell the property outright. In the spring of 1963, construction teams broke ground to create a new runway and a terminal building. The airport opened on May 17, 1964 and the first three flights to Dormanshire, Le Ax-Canbon, and Adenborough were packed. In fact the flight to Le Ax-Canbon was so full that the plane had to return because it was overweight.