How small towns keep flights when airlines pull out

Essential Air Service subsidies helped ensure that small airports around the country continued seeing flights after airlines were deregulated.
Alaska Public Media

Despite shutdown, feds say Essential Air Service will remain funded through Nov. 18

Federal subsidies for rural air travel will continue through at least mid-November despite the government shutdown, according to a notice sent to airlines on Wednesday. The Transportation Department ...
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Essential Air Service ‘Will Be Impacted' by Shutdown

The Essential Air Service (EAS) program will run out of funding as early as Sunday, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said. His comments come as a federal government shutdown continues into its ...
Arkansas Times

Arkansas rural air service subsidy in Trump administration’s crosshairs

Donald Trump’s cost cutters are setting their sights on a federal program that subsidizes flights from several small Arkansas communities to larger airports. The federally funded Essential Air Service ...