In a previous article, "Jay Honeck" said:
Are they able to reduce costs by closing now instead of a year from
now?

Not that I can discern. Unless you count the time spent snow plowing it
next winter?

I think the airport powers that be consider this fairly important. KROC
has a plan to make the runway that's only used by piston engined planes,
7-25 narrower by painting cross hatching on both sides, and that's
supposed to save money. The runway is a hold-over from the days when
airlines landed their DC-3s on it. Obviously the painting isn't going to
stop anybody rolling on it in the summer, so they must be thinking it will
take less time to plow in the winter.


--
Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
Deciding to precipitate the disaster, I have donned my copper armour,
filled a fire bucket, and wired myself to all the important swervers.
-- A fatalistic BOFH