hummingbird writes:

Perhaps one reason that money is being fed to the smaller airports is
to make them more attractive to commercial airlines to start up direct
point-to-point services instead of using big hubs and big jets. That
would be exactly in line with Boeing's strategy in the light of Airbus
A380 competition.

Whatever the reason, I don't see why it's so objectionable.

The government spends untold billions to build and maintain a national highway
system and endless motor vehicle infrastructure around the country, and nobody
objects to that, even though almost all of this is designed to serve private
drivers driving their own cars. They _could_ use public transportation
instead (just a people use commercial airlines to fly). Perhaps people who
drive their own cars instead of taking the bus should be called "hobby
drivers," if GA pilots are "hobby pilots."

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