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To: TimF who wrote (365541)	1/4/2008 4:34:13 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) of 1576865

...as Congress has escalated subsidies through the years, the program has increasingly paid for flights between major airports and places that are neither rural nor isolated. [For example,] in October, the DOT agreed to one of the program's largest subsidies ever — $2 million a year to Atlantic Southeast Airlines. That pays 60% of ASA's cost to fly two round-trips a day between Macon, Ga., and Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, 81 miles away. The airline projects that passengers will pay an average of $78 for a one-way ticket — and that flights, typically on planes with fewer than 70 seats, will run 83% empty. I agree that it doesn't make sense with Macon or with Murtha's Johnston airport but it does in certain parts of the West like Nebraska or Wyoming or Montana or Alaska or the Dakotas. There are small towns and cities in those states that are not served by freeways or rail, and sometimes are hundreds of miles away from the nearest commercial airport. They depend on these planes for transportation. If the intent is to kill these towns completely, then cut off their air service.

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