wrote:

For me, OSH is out of the question this year. With so many costs up,
flat income, and the cost of fuel so high, it is just not in the
cards. I am wondering if there are others in the same boat.

EAA carefully guards attendance figures but for those that are there,
what does it look like? Lots of open aircraft parking spaces and thin
crowds?


I was there yesterday, all day. I was surprised, attendance was higher than
I expected. There were more airplanes and people than I expected to see.
There were more cars and campers than I expected. Day 2 is unusually early
for me, I normally try to go on day 5 which tends to be busier, but I don't
think there was a significant decrease in attendance. With the unusually
light arrival traffic on Friday, Saturday and Sunday and the weather
forecast for Tuesday attendance was higher than I expected to see.