The legislation approved by a House Appropriations subcommittee would give $173 million in the upcoming budget year to the Essential Air Service, which provides subsidies to small airlines to fly unprofitable routes
We should also think about cutting the maintenance costs of maintaining their roads too.
I’m pretty sure this program has been around for decades. $173 million to help smaller towns all across America have some air service actually isn’t that much if you think about how many small communities exist and how many this program will help.
You want small towns to be able to fly all over America. I’d like to see the money spent by rural Americans on trips using this program that otherwise would not go on any.
has anyone ever flown into one of these little podunk airports before? It’s usually a building smaller than a grocery store. They have one or two security lines, and 2 “terminals”(which are basically just waiting areas). When your plane arrives(tiny little things), they unload, then you walk out on the runway and climb up into the plane.
The last small airport I was at had MAYBE 15 workers in the whole place.
I don’t think a small airport is really any different than a train station.