In article ,
Jose wrote:

but the airports won't be threatened with closure if GA is
expanding and healthy.

Sure they will. The economic forces are the same - even a healthy GA
population at a small airport that is in a developmentally desirable
area will not make enough money to fend this off. Granted, healthy GA
contributes economically many other ways, but those ways are mostly
hidden and indirect, making airports still an easy target.

Jose

What we also have to remember is that real estate developers represent
the biggest political money contributors to state and local elections in
the US. As such, they get first ear of the politicians whom they
represent. The developers also create "noise sensitive" groups to do
their dirty work.

We all have to remain vigilant and step on all the plans to "make better
use" of our local airport.