Fiasco? Sometimes...Mirabel certainly is, arguably DIA as well. Dulles though? OK, it was built in BFE, but it's not as if Washington can, you know, do without international air service, and it sure isn't going into DCA. DFW: lot of slime (Wright Amendment et al.) associated with it, not ideally located, but having three airlines with hubs in the Dallas area has been good for the city, and certainly Delta and American wouldn't have fit at Love Field. Then there's Austin -- this was done relatively on the cheap since the Air Force base was there for the taking. I was always fond of Mueller, having flown into it many, many times, but it was truthfully far too small (especially in the runway department, many times I flew in there when the landings went clear to the end) and in the middle of an eminently commercially developable area. So it's a mixed bag. Evan McElravy emcelr@po-box.mcgill.ca > I think most major Canadian cities went through the "we are growing, we > need a new airport" fiasco. A few US cities went through this as well, > hence Dulles, Denver, Dallas, and recently Austin.