August 21, 2023 10:00 am ET
U.S. Essential Air Service
U.S. Essential Air Service
[ U.S. Essential Air Service ]September 2, 2020 5:06 pm ET
Essential Air Service: What It Is and Why It's Needed
Every year, people around the country pay their taxes and begin to complain about which government programs are necessary and which are not. And every year the same question comes up: why does the government shell out millions of dollars in federal aid to airlines in order to fly — in some cases empty aircraft — to cities nobody has ever heard of? Because it’s essential. History of EAS Essential Air Service has played an interesting role in this country…
March 5, 2023 7:24 pm ET -
One Year Later: Skywest’s EAS Termination Request
Roughly one year ago, in March of 2022, SkyWest requested to terminate 29 Essential Air Service communities around the United States. We are now a year later and a lot has changed, and it is not the only airline that…
December 12, 2022 10:50 am ET -
Delta Re-Adjusts EAS Tag Flights, Again
Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines has once again updated its ever-changing flight schedule for some of the small communities it operates to in the Midwestern U.S. While most of the communities do lose their tag flights and go back to their…
September 10, 2022 9:02 pm ET -
Delta Adjusts Michigan Tag Flights
Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines has made it through the pandemic without starting a single tag route. Other airlines such as United, American, Alaska, and others combined destinations into a single flight to save costs during the pandemic due to severely…
September 4, 2022 5:20 am ET -
Contour Adds Six New Destinations
SkyWest has had a rough couple of months, they requested to end 31 EAS contracts in the spring of 2022 and have combined about a dozen other communities into tag flights. It is seen in the industry that when one…
August 28, 2022 3:48 pm ET -
SkyWest/United Express Cut Another City
Back in the Spring of 2022 SkyWest, under the United Express brand, requested to terminate 31 Essential Air Services (EAS) communities. In some of these communities, SkyWest has already left and new carriers have come in, like the community of…