The functional and architectural complexity of contemporary airports makes them ideal objects to speculate on the anthropological meaning of the notion of `place'. Marc Aug\'{e} defines airports as `non-places'\cite{auge}. Aug\'{e}'s formulation of non-place, is a derivation of, or rather a deviation from, the idea of `space' posited by Michel de Certeau\cite{deCerteau}. According to De Certeau, the act of social practice transforms a `place' into a `space'. Thus, a deserted street is a `place', but `the intersection of moving bodies' transforms it into a `space'. Aug\'{e} reformulates the notion of place/space in anthropological terms, by focusing on the individual, rather than collective spatial experiences. He posits that certain spaces, although being `frequented' are inherently uniform and flat to the point that they resist any sort of subjective, emotional attachment. Aug\'{e}'s notion of non-place is not unique to airports. Non-places are also other `constructions of the everyday world'\cite{acevedo-riker:2006} such as railway stations, aircrafts, hotels, shopping malls and leisure parks. It is true that all these non-places share a number of common characteristics and they all resist the attribution of `space' in the sense postulated by De Certeau. However, the non-placeness of airports goes beyond spatial connotations. Modern air travel has generated forms of crisis that have embedded themselves in the architecture and the modus operandi of contemporary airports.