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Municipal airports are nothing like the large international airports you may be thinking of. Municipal airports have like two runways and are only used by tiny
by dahfizz 3y ago
Municipal airports are nothing like the large international airports you may be thinking of. Municipal airports have like two runways and are only used by tiny private planes, not commercial airliners.
The only effect on the "public good" is to serve a handful of rich hobbyist. And potentially as national defense infrastructure, which I guess is why the feds fund them.
- troyvit 3y agoIn Colorado municipal airports serve more "public good" purposes. One purpose is for less rich (but still pretty rich) people to go skydiving. Another is to stage aircraft for fire fighting in places that are closer to the fires. That last one is important, not just for saving the houses of the rich people who build mansions in fire zones, but also to help save whole towns.