"Jay Honeck" wrote in message news:fKXRc.277186$Oq2.192945@attbi_s52...

These closures suck, but again they affect a tiny subset of an already tiny
population of pilots. This doe not represent a major lifestyle change for
the average American, as Eduaro suggested.

You keepsaying "tiny" but your Iowa-centric mentality defrines AMERICA
by yourself. Maybe 23 airports is only a dozen planes and pilots in Iowa,
but here we're packed in pretty densely. The DC metro area has a population
of over 5 million nearly twice the population of Iowa.

Your statistics of 99.99999999 are spurious.