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Re-order Paragraphs

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Re-order Paragraphs

Arrange the sentences into the correct order.

Put the sentences in the correct order:

  1. This shift has allowed a number of regional airports to stay open and economically relevant even though the scheduled passenger flights that first justified their construction have largely disappeared.
  2. Rather than closing entirely, many of these airports reinvented themselves as hubs for cargo flights, flight training schools, and private aviation, uses that require less passenger traffic to remain viable.
  3. Passenger numbers at regional airports fell sharply as a result, leaving several of them with far more runway and terminal capacity than they actually needed.
  4. When major airlines began consolidating their networks around a handful of large hub airports to cut costs, many of these smaller routes were quietly discontinued.
  5. Small regional airports once thrived by offering short flights that connected rural towns to larger cities without requiring a long drive.