As the pandemic cancels flights, Uruguay turns its airport into a drive-in
Entertainment-starved Uruguayans can enjoy a socially distanced movie from their own vehicle with snacks just a WhatsApp away
Uruguayans watch a screening of Sonic the Hedgehog at the Carrasco international airport.
Photograph: Pablo Porciuncula/AFP/Getty Images
Uki Goñi in Buenos Aires
Fri 29 May 2020 04.00 EDT
With commercial flights cancelled around much of the world because of the coronavirus pandemic, one country has adapted its main airport to a new use: as a drive-in cinema.
Instead of planes flying in and out of Uruguay’s Carrasco international airport, cars are now arriving nightly for Uruguayans to enjoy a socially distanced movie in the safety of their own vehicle.
“It was fantastic,” said dentist Cecilia Muttoni who recently went to a screening of Sonic the Hedgehog with her 29-year-old daughter. “It was the chance to have a communal experience but with each car being its own private universe.”
The Carrasco international airport, on the outskirts of Montevideo,
Uruguay, has been converted into a drive-in cinema.
Photograph: Matilde Campodonico/AP
Uruguay closed all entertainment venues, including cinemas, when it went into lockdown on 13 March. The country also closed its borders for all air traffic except chartered repatriation flights.
More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/29/uruguay-airport-drive-in-coronavirus
