Don't forget that the original Midway Airlines flew into Burke from MDW when they began operations in 1979. Midway's original cities were Detroit, Cleveland, and Kansas City. Midway planned to serve alternate airports in all three, but was forced to serve Metro instead of City at Detroit, and International (MCI) instead of Municipal (MKC) at Kansas City, due to local opposition. Midway was allowed to serve Burke instead of Hopkins at Cleveland, but traffic didn't meet expectations, so Midway moved to Hopkins a year or two later. Joe Wolf In a message dated 6/2/2005 20:19:25 Central Daylight Time, exatc@xxxxxxxxxx writes: There was consumer reluctance to the turboprops. I think they expanded or tried to expand too fast (Wright Airlines). They were formed by the merger of Wright Airlines (Part 135), TAG Airliners (lost a wing over Lake Erie) and Air Commuter (Part 135). They dropped routes (Lima-Hopkins) as an example that they'd carry 6-8 passengers each trip for longer flights that didn't pay off. They were about to go under when the banks asked Gibby SIngerman to take it over. He brought in the CV440's and eventually the CV600's and they started to make a go of it. Then Gibby and a partner started Midwest Air Charter (Air Ohio) hauling cancelled checks and then small courier stuff. He's the guy that proved the banks could save money flying cancelled checks at night. Later he moved the operation from Lakefront to Lorain County (22G) and ultimately to Wilmington (OH). This then became Airborne Express. Gibby sold it out to it's current? owners. I forget what caused the demise of Wright. Al