Summary
A recent report on New England's air traffic found that midsize airports, like Bangor's, play an important role in connecting local residents to the national flight network while easing congestion at Boston's Logan Airport. This conclusion, which likely also applies to other regions, should prompt Congress to rethink Essential Air Service, which takes passengers away from regional airports and increases traffic at hubs such as Logan.
The program was started by Congress in 1978, as part of the airline industry deregulation, to ensure that travelers in small cities had access to air travel. It provides subsidies to 115 small airports at a cost of about $110 million a year.See the full content of this document
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Flying There From Here
Four airports in Maine - Augusta-Waterville, Bar Harbor, Presque Isle-Houlton and Rockland - each receive subsidies of about $1 m...
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