In this paper, I introduce airports as socio-technical mobilities\cite{flowcity} and analyze them in an anthropological context. Drawing from the notion of `space' posited by Michel de Certeau\cite{deCerteau} and that of `non-place' by Marc Aug\'{e}\cite{auge}, I argue that 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. There is a large number of dynamics that fuel such crisis. Airports are necessarily located in a physical and tangible sense, yet their function is so tightly coupled with transience, mobility and spectatorship, that they bring anthropological accounts of `space' and `place' to unprecedented extremes. In this paper, I analyze three tensions that are inherently bound to the contemporary practice of air travel and that present themselves as symbiotic phenomena: \textit{intimacy/sameness} (BODY), \textit{spectatorship/solitude} (SPACE), \textit{fluidity/control} (TECHNOLOGY).