Amtrak Watcher
Lead Service Attendant
My American Airlines flight recently landed at MidAmerica Airport (about 35 miles east of St. Louis) to wait for a storm to pass. This new airport (built in the late 1990s) reminds me of the airport in Normal, IL except that it has no airlines or scheduled flights save for a few charters once or twice a week. Nevertheless, there continues to be hourly bus service to St. Louis and return, with no passengers, since the airport opened. The airport appears to have a full security staff with nothing to do.
Why do we only hear about the Amtrak boondoggle, and not these failed regional airports, which sprung up all over the U.S. in the 1990s thanks to $billions in government subsidies?
Why do we only hear about the Amtrak boondoggle, and not these failed regional airports, which sprung up all over the U.S. in the 1990s thanks to $billions in government subsidies?