Judah wrote:

But these people are not rich
people, just ordinary people who use aircraft like you would use your
car because it suits their needs better. Many fly planes that sell for
prices that are in the same range as a luxury car. (There are even
planes that can be purchased for less than a Hyundai!)

Even if we assume that some of these recreational and business visitors
arrive by jet, that just means that they'd have brought more money to spend
in the local economy (on the assumption that jet's cost more and therefore
those in jets have more to spend {8^).

That money is now going elsewhere.

- Andrew