After reading the 60 plus replies in the A.Net forum thread I don't recall any over the top "crapping" on CLE. A few had some issues about the airport or the city, but I thought it was a pretty level headed discussion on the topic. It was no where near as nasty as some of those forum arguments I've read before. Most of it I understood, some stuff I didn't. Bottom line from my point of view, with my very limited knowledge of airline business matters, is as long as CLE is making enough of a profit to keep the bean counters happy, the hub will be here.

Back in 2006 I came across A.Net on a computer at Berea. After spending a lot of time looking at the photos there, the voice in my head said, "I can do that!" A year later I scraped together enough cash my a Fuji point and shoot digital camera, and now I have a hobby I love. Thru A.Net I have had contact with and actually met with spotters from Canada and Europe who have been to Cleveland. Anyone who contacts me thru them always gets an OPShots plug and directed to our own little paradise for our brand of civil conversation and great photography. I made my first sale of aircraft photos to an aerospace company in Florida based on what they saw of my pics posted there. Twice I've had the most viewed photo of the day there. I enjoy the great  aviation photography I see there. I enjoy the challenge of getting my photos thru their screening process. I stay out of the forums unless I see someone asking for advise about spotting in Cleveland. I'm not going to let a few knuckleheads there keep me away from a website I enjoy.

Having said all that, my success at A.Net is a result of being a member of the OPShots community. Thank you Chuck for running the outstanding aviation website. Thank you Mark for all the technical work you put into OPShots. Thank you everyone else for the kind comments on my photos and support over the past five years!