Originally Posted by
LeftWing
Okay Mr. Helper,
What are you? An aspiring Junior Thought Police Officer? Were you a hall monitor in school?
Get over yourself.
Yes, the best darned one how did you know?...

(sarcasm note)
I know I wasn't the only one that brought that poster to the mods attention. It was obvious the poster was just trying to tick people off and that has no use here.
Anyways back to the original topic of airports being empty, some of that has to do with the design age. If the airport was designed pre 9/11 odds are its going to seem a little bit emptier as it was designed to accomodate pax and nonpax in the terminal area.