Airports are a place where real events are carefully excluded. Common bonds do form but only of the loosest kind. Meanwhile, the airport must work to exclude that which is meaningful. The things you need are charged by the pound here. Dont bring it with you here unless it has direct utility. Loved ones are not permitted, as such, but may be allowed only on their own account. In the midst of transit you must give up even your association with a shared temporality; each person is in their own bubble of time, which they have brought along with them and will linger, unwelcome, for days.