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The U.S. partly mitigates this by subsidizing service to smaller airports, via the $250m/yr Essential Air Service program [1]. This was part of the deregulation
by _delirium 11y ago
The U.S. partly mitigates this by subsidizing service to smaller airports, via the $250m/yr Essential Air Service program [1]. This was part of the deregulation bill, thrown in to mollify representatives of smaller towns and rural areas, who otherwise would have opposed deregulation.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_Air_Service https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_Air_Service
- jordanthoms 11y agoAnd not a totally unreasonable approach if the politicians want to maintain a specific capability, much better than making the entire market inefficient.