Live in a small city? You may lose air service soon (discuss) (state, places)

[atlantagreg30127]

Read the article below and discuss in a civil manner. If you live in a smaller city/town and air service has been reduced or cut as well, add that to the discussion.

Related discussion: The topic is about the article below, and as a side-discussion, you can NICELY debate how the loss of air travel in these smaller cities could possibly spur the re-development of rail travel in smaller markets, or new bus services (such as metrobus, etc).

Article: Small Jets and Small Airports Being Phased Out - weather.com (http://www.weather.com/outlook/weather-news/news/articles/airlines-phasing-out-smaller-jets_2011-11-26 - broken link)

[MS313]

So what are the metro population of these cities that you think are going to lost it's air service? Under 100,000?

[HtownLove]

Good. maybe that will influence some sort of national Rail Connection and deter people flocking to these small towns

[Champ le monstre du lac]

Originally Posted by MarvinStrong313

So what are the metro population of these cities that you think are going to lost it's air service? Under 100,000?

yeah I was wondering what the benchmark was also. I suppose I would be concerned if I was regularly hopping flights from JFK to Nantucket.

(Wings - TV Show) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfCFe...eature=related

If they are cutting back on flights that affect fairly sizable cities like Albuquerque, Boise, or El Paso in which they are the only airports for hundreds of miles around then that would certainly hinder the local and state economies. Then again those airports take in plenty of jets that seat 50+ people. Places like Cheyenne, WY being a really small city and close enough to Denver really isn't that big of a deal.

[Ben Around]

It'll be interesting indeed if this spurs new rail service. Many of these cities LOST rail service back in the 50s/60s and intercity bus service in the 80s/90s due to the expansion and subsidy of air and automobile travel.