Here is the issue. The list is not geographical. The list is not based on city/metro size. The list isnÂ’t even based on airport size. But most relevant... it is not based on number of flights to China. Basically, it is an arbitrary list of what airports the Feds think are important, and Detroit isnÂ’t one of them, despite having more flights to China than at least one of the chosen airports.
As to your argument about Houston and Dallas, Houston doesnÂ’t even have a US carrier that serves China. Dallas I agree is on par with DTW, but that is the only other airport nationwide with as much US service to China as DTW. So technically both DTW and DFW got the shaft. And while I concede it is a stupid thing to be bothered by, Detroit regularly gets short changed on many fronts these days. So forgive me for being thin skinned. If they had just said LAX/JFK/ORD/SFO, Id have no issue... but once they started going beyond that and excluded DTW... it became a slight.
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