atpcliff
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Hi!
YIP is the old Detroit Metro airport. It is about 5 miles W of DTW, except it's on the North side of I-94 instead of the South side.
It is a huge airport, with tons of room, even today, for expansion. When Detroit needed more PAX capacity, the various political factions fought about what to do.
Eventually, they decided to start from the ground up, buy all the property, build ramps, runways, taxiways, etc., etc., etc. for a brand new airport, only 5 miles from the old one.
I'm sure a lot of politicians took massive bribes and payoffs to do this.
It cost the taxpayers tens, if not, hundreds of millions of extra money to do this. What a huge waste of our money.
cliff
GRB
YIP is the old Detroit Metro airport. It is about 5 miles W of DTW, except it's on the North side of I-94 instead of the South side.
It is a huge airport, with tons of room, even today, for expansion. When Detroit needed more PAX capacity, the various political factions fought about what to do.
Eventually, they decided to start from the ground up, buy all the property, build ramps, runways, taxiways, etc., etc., etc. for a brand new airport, only 5 miles from the old one.
I'm sure a lot of politicians took massive bribes and payoffs to do this.
It cost the taxpayers tens, if not, hundreds of millions of extra money to do this. What a huge waste of our money.
cliff
GRB