Garudadude, I love it. Especially your statement:
…educating Dick about the aviation world outside of his chardonnay circle?
You obviously don’t know me! Then again, once at a charity wine auction I did pay $1,000 for a bottle of Fanta.
It is interesting how no one has addressed the real point. That is, even if the airspace is active and needs to be of such vast size, that modern procedures (as used in other leading aviation countries) would reduce the amount of holding and waste.