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Zeus
OH, you regional airline users say goodbye to the small airlines and regional airports. They will go the way of the branch line passenger train because of fuel costs.

Not in more rural areas that have a lot of people that do not live within reasonable driving distance (i.e., 60-90 miles or less) of an airport served by the major carriers; the politicians will simply seek federal funding to maintain service to those areas or the major airlines will do it themselves (as they're already doing in many cases). Keep in mind, too, that many (if not most) regional airports also serve the general aviation sector, which isn't going to wilt away that quickly.