At 12:25 AM 5/23/2003 -0400, Tom Doherty wrote: >STL Nonsense; they just opened up Mid-America at the old Scott AFB. :-) :-) :-) San Francisco is in a "damned if they do, damned if they don't," situation. There's nowhere to put a new airport, and the international terminal is still quite new, so they wouldn't want to abandon it, but their runway configuration is notoriously bad. SJC is heavily constrained by the town around it, and I don't think much of OAK, either. (OK, it's been years since I've been to OAK.) The SF Bay Area needs one good airport, not three mediocre ones, but that's not going to happen. No one talks about using Moffett Field, so I assume it's not adequate for commercial traffic, even if they build the infrastructure around it. There aren't many other sites for airfields around the Bay. There is, of course, the long-running Chicago expansion/replacement saga. I think they're fairly firmly on the road to expanding O'Hare, not replacing it, but then again, people thought they knew what was happening with Meigs Field there, too. Nick