Harris Faulkner thinks international travelers are dying to visit flyover states
People today do not fly to New York because they find Oklahoma City too inconvenient.
Fox News host Harris Faulkner is gamely trying to turn Trump’s sanctuary city airport sabotage into a misguided travel brochure.
International travelers are not interchangeable units in a national tourism dispenser. People fly to New York because they are going there. They fly to Los Angeles because they are going to Los Angeles. They fly to Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia, Denver, and Newark because those cities are the destinations. Reuters reports that the administration’s proposal has alarmed the travel industry, with airline and travel groups warning of serious disruption to travel and commerce.
Faulkner is describing chaos as if it were economic development. If the federal government shuts off customs processing at major airports, the result is not that the world gratefully discovers the charm of political spite routing. The result is canceled flights, broken itineraries, cargo problems, angry passengers, and a self-inflicted wound to the U.S. economy as it ceases to be a reliable destination for business.
People today do not fly to New York because they find Oklahoma City too inconvenient.
It's even a little worse than that. It's not just that the cities you mention are attractive. It's that for some unexplainable reason many foreigners actively want to avoid cities that are ok with foreigner-bashing.
And just how will those smaller airports cope with a huge influx of passengers? They don’t have the hotel space, the taxis or rideshares, or any reason they would be a destination for a traveler from abroad.