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Old August 14th 05, 07:31 PM
Earl Grieda
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"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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This data, from the FAA website, seems to fly in the face of the
oft-quoted statistic that "we're losing 2 airports a month in the U.S.:

I've often wondered about that number. It might be true but I wish it had
some type of verifiable reference, and the reference has the airport name,
location, annual operations, and closure reason.


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Old August 14th 05, 11:35 PM
Peter Duniho
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"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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Heck, even the number of public use airports appears to have risen.
Why is AOPA saying otherwise?


Off the top of my head, my recollection is that AOPA's figure is the number
of airports that are closed per time period (week, month, year...whatever
fits their current PR best). Of course, that does ignore the number of
airports that are opened. They aren't talking "net".

It appears that the 2004 numbers don't really match up with "2 airports a
month", but it's easy to see how they translated the 2003 numbers to that.

Anyway, it's just marketing. Even the numbers you post don't tell the whole
story, since they don't address questions such as runway length, proximity
to the urban area served, facilities at the airport, etc. You could open 10
unattended 2000' runways, and still not compensate for the loss of an
airport like Meigs, for example.

Pete


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Old August 15th 05, 12:21 AM
Larry Dighera
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On 14 Aug 2005 09:46:36 -0700, "Jay Honeck" wrote
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... the data is showing a net GAIN of 243 airports from 2002 to 2004!


It would be interesting to know how many of the new airports are
actually heliports.
 




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