How is this possible?

"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.:

(In case the formatting gets screwed up, the data is showing a net GAIN
of 243 airports from 2002 to 2004!)
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If you examine the figures, the growth is in private airports. Most of those
are non-factors if you're using aviation as transportation.

KB