Didn't really realize the effect the VFR ban was having until yesterday.
Had lunch yesterday at Brackett airport in LA, decent food, friendly waitresses, outdoor dining adjacent to the runway. Nice place for a late lunch on a fall day, helps me relax from all the B.S. of work, etc.
Usually the place is constantly busy, parallel runways, with flight trainig, other G.A. stuff. I've had to circe outside of the airspace just to get clearance to enter. In the hour I was there yesterday only one IFR flight departed, nothing landed. Cafe was deserted except for a couple of people, usually it's almost a wait for a table at that time of day. Instead of 2 waitresses, only one, and she wasn't overly busy.
About then I realized the far-reaching effect this whole WTC thing is going to have. All the way down to the poor waitress at the cafe who is making only about half her usual income.
Pretty much sucks.