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>We're already heavily subsidizing airlines to schedule flights to nowhere. Can you expound upon this, or give examples of taxpayer dollars subsidizing flights
by flubert 10y ago
>We're already heavily subsidizing airlines to schedule flights to nowhere.
Can you expound upon this, or give examples of taxpayer dollars subsidizing flights to "nowhere"?
- niftich 10y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_Air_Service https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_Air_Service
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- ubernostrum 10y agoEssential Air Service is the usual thing meant here. In a country with the size/spread/population density of the US, it's generally not possible to have a single-mode transportation network which reaches everybody (or to within reasonable distance of everybody) without subsidizing some routes that would be unprofitable due to low demand.