Originally Posted by mecabq
OK, so what is the smallest metropolitan area, both in the U.S. and worldwide, with multiple airports that actually currently have scheduled commercial service? (I hope that this question does not degenerate into an argument about what constitutes a "metropolitan area.")
Well, I use the US 2000 census that lists 276 Metropolitan areas (from New York, 21million to Enid, OK, 57,813). Browsing from the bottom of the list, I found #120 Brownsville-Harlingen-San Benito, TX, 335,227. BRO and HRL both have scheduled services, and the two airports are 26 miles apart.