I missed this news item a week ago from AAAE:
AAAE expressed concern that of the $10 million that Congress appropriated for Small Community Air Service Development Program, only $6.8 million is slated to go to small communities that need assistance. According to DOT’s order, the other $3.2 million will be used to cover “current and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘small communities’
Small Community Air Service Development dead?
Posted in Evan's News and Quick Takes, tagged dot, small communities on September 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When airlines can’t escape the EAS straitjacket
Posted in Evan's News and Quick Takes, tagged dot, regulation, small communities on July 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Matthew Swibel has a great story in the current issue of Forbes on another flaw of the very flawed Essential Air Service. The Department of Transportation sets subsidies for flights to each community at a certain level, but with costs rising so precipitously, some airlines can’t make a profit even with a subsidy. What can [...]
Rethinking small community air service
Posted in Evan's Commentary, tagged business, competition, dot, network airlines, small communities on May 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In a post several months ago, I wrote that the rigid Essential Air Service crowds out better, more flexible ways of funding credible and realistic service to small communities, such as the Small Community Air Service Development (SCASD) program. A year ago, the Government Accountability Office reported that although it could not sufficiently evaluate SCASD [...]
CBS News on the Essential Air Service
Posted in Evan's News and Quick Takes, tagged misc., small communities on May 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I was interviewed for a segment on tonight’s CBS Evening News. The “Follow the Money” segment exposed the tens of millions of dollars wasted on empty flights to the middle of nowhere.
Here are links to:
The text of the broadcast
Video of the segment
One of my posts about the problematic EAS program
Essential air service: neither essential, nor much of a service
Posted in Evan's Commentary, tagged airports, competition, congress, network airlines, small communities, travel, usa on January 3, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The “Essential Air Service” (EAS) is back in the news, this time in an article in USA Today, which is being batted around the blogosphere at View from the Wing, Marginal Revolution, and elsewhere. If you’re not familiar with EAS, read the article first; it offers a good overview of the program. In this post, [...]
Your humble blogger on TV
Posted in 1, tagged misc., small communities on November 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I was recently interviewed about the Essential Air Service by Medill News for a TV station in West Virginia. You can watch the video here.
Aviation08: The Obama aviation plan
Posted in Evan's Commentary, tagged air traffic control, airports, Aviation08, congress, delays, dot, faa, labor, politics, safety, security, small communities, tsa on September 8, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Welcome, new readers! For more blogging on aviation politics, click here.
First of all, big props to Obama and his campaign team for actually having a transportation agenda [PDF]. The McCain campaign devotes a whole section to manned space exploration but can’t spare a word for aviation. So, to Obama, an A for effort.
Now let’s dig [...]
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