If this doesn't verify it...

Jay Honeck wrote:
...I don't know what does. Despite sky-high new aircraft sales,
overall traffic is down -- way down.

Yet another data point: The $100 Hamburger website keeps track of the
number of new airport restaurants that have opened and the number
closed. According to today's announcement, so far this year only 17
new airport restaurants have sprung up - all across the country --
while 143 have closed.

This is scary. Although we've seen "blips" of activity this year,
overall we're still seeing way, way less air traffic than in past
years. The fact that so many on-field restaurants have locked their
doors bodes ill for all of us.

Get out there and fly, ladies and gents. Our infrastructure is
dissolving beneath our wings...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"


Lawyers
The FAA
Gas Prices
Insurance companies

All are coming to together to destroy aviation

So Sad

I wish I could go back in a time machine to around 1925
Grab a Bi-Plane with an open canopy and no radio and just fly

I wish I could go back in a time machine to around 1925
Grab a Bi-Plane with an open canopy and no radio and just fly- Hide quoted text -

What's amazing is that you can still do precisely that -- even
today.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Airport restaurants do not "survive" on fly in customers..
the need the locals for survival...
so it is a restaurant that would have failed anyway..
granted.. in some areas.. the high cost of "airport footage rental space"
does not help..

BT

"BillyBob" wrote in message
...
Jay Honeck wrote:
...I don't know what does. Despite sky-high new aircraft sales,
overall traffic is down -- way down.

Yet another data point: The $100 Hamburger website keeps track of the
number of new airport restaurants that have opened and the number
closed. According to today's announcement, so far this year only 17
new airport restaurants have sprung up - all across the country --
while 143 have closed.

This is scary. Although we've seen "blips" of activity this year,
overall we're still seeing way, way less air traffic than in past
years. The fact that so many on-field restaurants have locked their
doors bodes ill for all of us.

Get out there and fly, ladies and gents. Our infrastructure is
dissolving beneath our wings...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"


Lawyers
The FAA
Gas Prices
Insurance companies

All are coming to together to destroy aviation

So Sad

I wish I could go back in a time machine to around 1925
Grab a Bi-Plane with an open canopy and no radio and just fly

Jay Honeck wrote:

Lawyers
The FAA
Gas Prices
Insurance companies

All are coming to together to destroy aviation


A healthy aviation industry benefits the insurance companies. The
insurance companies don't want to destroy aviation - we just want to
make a profit. If insurance rates are going up its because of poor
underwriting in the past, frivolous lawsuits or pilots making bad
decisions.

Deadstick wrote:
Jay Honeck wrote:

Lawyers
The FAA
Gas Prices
Insurance companies

All are coming to together to destroy aviation


A healthy aviation industry benefits the insurance companies. The
insurance companies don't want to destroy aviation - we just want to
make a profit. If insurance rates are going up its because of poor
underwriting in the past, frivolous lawsuits or pilots making bad
decisions.

frivolous lawsuits.