When I was a kid I almost got my moms cooking scissors through “security” at the Moline, Il International Airport. They were like 8 feet long and used to hack up chickens but I just wanted them to use for craft paper. Small Midwestern Airports ftw

To Hell with the hubs. It’s worth the extra cost and longer commutes to fly in and out of tiny regional airports and avoid the monsters that populate bigger, busier terminals. Central Illinois airport? 10 gates, 2 runways, no lines, super clean, and placid Midwestern smiles as far as the eye can see. If it appeared in…