"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
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Meigs used to support 20,000 operations a year.

Yes.

Some of that traffic surely now uses O'Hare.

Yes.

So while the demolition of Meigs field may not have
reduced the capacity of O'Hare,

That's exactly what I said.

it has exacerbated congestion there.

I never said it didn't.

Right. Again, it's GA's problem, not O'Hare's.

It's an O'Hare problem that has be addressed by selectively reducing
the number of GA operations there.

I doubt that O'Hare management really gives a crap *who* is using its
capacity. It's at maximum capacity, and if anything O'Hare probably gets
more money from airline flights than from GA flights (even business jets).

If anything, O'Hare is probably relieved (sorry, no pun intended) to have GA
reduced while allowing as much airline traffic as it can.

The question is, what authority has implemented the reduction in GA
operations? If it's the FAA, presumably it's consistent with their
guidelines. If the reduction imposed on GA operations at O'Hare is
the result of the city of Chicago's fiat, it may be inconsistent with
their Airport Improvement funding agreement with the FAA.

Those are good questions, and not questions I have answers to.

Pete