A popular airline is looking to add service to the Watertown International Airport. JetBlue recently submitted a proposal to ...

To critics, the Essential Air Service is classic Washington pork. Created to last 10 years, the program that guarantees air service to small towns is now 31-years-old and showing no signs of dying.

Spirit, JetBlue Take Different Approach For EAS Markets is published in Aviation Daily, an Aviation Week Intelligence Network ...

No one seems to know. The U.S. Department of Transportation was scheduled to name a new air carrier for the service Feb. 1, but that still hasn't happened.

But without the federal Essential Air Service program, which kicks in $2.37 million per year to keep fares on the route from skyrocketing, Sampson’s flight probably wouldn’t be possible.

More: Carlsbad choses new essential air service provider On March 24, USDOT ordered Boutique to continue to provide flights at Cavern City Air Terminal until a new carrier could be found. The ...

Essential Air Service program called into question A federal program that enables low-cost commercial flights from Pittsburgh on almost empty aircraft every day is being funded by taxpayers ...

Jamestown Mayor Eddie Sundquist is hoping Essential Air Service will return to the south county, providing an alternative form of transportation for local residents and tourists. Sundquist said he had ...

The Essential Air Service program, which subsidizes flights between small towns and hub airports in Colorado and across the U.S., was fully funded in a bill drafted in the U.S. House, easing fears ...

The Essential Air Service was only supposed to last 10 years. More than 30 years later, it's still in existence, offering taxpayer-funded subsidies to air carriers. By Joe Brancatelli – Business ...

Essential Air Service: I Need You to Need Me with Louis Liss Delta is cutting service to 24 small town airports in the south, upper Midwest, and plains.