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Spirit Airlines is leaving.

Several years ago the politicians in Charleston had the opportunity to establish a regional airport that would’ve served over three-fifths of the U.S. population within 500 miles, but ego by Charleston-based politicians couldn’t stand the prosperity it would’ve brought the region and whole state. Short-sighted individuals caused air travel to be third class in West Virginia.

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