Airports are flying high.

• Position: Charlotte

"We are a group of local business folks and long-time Panthers Permanent Seat License owners writing to call a regrettable personal foul on the most tenured and venerable member of the Carolina Panthers organization--You!"

--The Perturbed Panther PSL Owners Federation in a letter to team owner Jerry Richardson that appeared as a full-page ad in The Charlotte Observer. The group of anonymous Panthers fans--upset by the team's poor performance this season, which they blame on Richardson's stinginess--published the letter in December.

Triangle 31.2% Triad 9.3% East 7.3% West 2.2% Charlotte 50.1% An N.C. Department of Transportation study showed that the state's 72 publicly owned airports had a $25.9 billion economic impact on North Carolina in 2010. The 11 in the Charlotte region generated more than half of that. An even higher percentage of the jobs, wages and state and local taxes created by publicly owned airports came from those in the region. Jobs N.C. 108,850 59.1% Charlotte 64,380 Wages N.C.$4.1 billion 63.4% Charlotte $2.6 billion Taxes N.C.$769 million 63.8% Charlotte $490.7 million Charlotte Douglas International Airport had the biggest economic impact on the state's economy--about $12.5 billion. The region's general-aviation airports added an additional S491 million. Economic impact (millions) 1 Concord Regional S175.8 2 Stanly County 109.7 3 Rowan County 103.4 4 Charlotte-Monroe Executive 22.3 5 Statesville Regional 21.1 6 Hickory Regional 16.7 7 Shelby-Cleveland County Regional 15.1 8 Anson County-Jeff Cloud Field 10.7 9 Lincolnton-Lincoln County Regional 10.1 10 Gastonia Municipal 6.3 WORKING CAPITAL CHARLOTTE Employed: 1,074,726 YTD change: 54,156 Index: 112.5 Source: Division of Employment Security, October. Figures are not seasonally adjusted. The index is the number of jobs as a percentage of the average in 2000. CHARLOTTE--JELD-WEN, which makes doors and windows, will open its North American...