I recently was leaving the gate at a small Midwestern airport. Small, of course, is relative. It was a Class D facility with two or three runways. There was a time when I would have considered such a facility to be daunting and big compared with the single-runway airports I was used to visiting. But in my current airline job, Class D rates as small compared with some of the Class B monstrosities I get to visit on a regular basis.
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