The main airport for the region is Detroit Metropolitan, a Delta Air Lines hub about 20 miles west of the city limits. In other cities, the anticipated development has yet to occur, as with Bader Field in Atlantic City and Meigs Field in Chicago. That is partly because decommissioning airports with the Federal Aviation Administration is an expensive, yearslong process, and political and economic winds shift quickly in the interim. Closing the airport, Mr. Benson argued, is a one-way street because shuttered airfields will not reopen and cities rarely find other sites that are as convenient. “You can’t just drop a city airport anywhere in the country.

Source: New York Times July 18, 2017 21:33 UTC