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August 21, 2023 10:00 am ET -
Essential Air Service: Where Are the Biggest Markets
Essential Air Service (EAS) is truly a hot issue with EAS routes changing more in the past year than they have in the past five, with airlines requesting to terminate service left and right. The top EAS carriers have also…
July 29, 2023 5:36 pm ET -
BREAKING: Advanced Air Awarded Third EAS Contract
Hawthorne, California-based airline Advanced Airlines has just been awarded its third Essential Air Service contract. While three may not seem like a lot compared to the mass number of contracts that carriers like SkyWest have, it is still growth for…
April 16, 2023 6:19 am ET -
Denver Air Connection Expands in Minneapolis
Denver-based Denver Air Connection, or more commonly known as DAC, will be expanding from its Minneapolis/St. Paul hub, which is due to a contract refresh. Pierre, S.D., an EAS community the airline has served since June 2021 when SkyWest terminated…
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…
March 2, 2023 10:00 am ET -
Trip Report: Contour Airlines’ Essential Air Service from Plattsburgh, NY…
The closure of the U.S.-Canada land border due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which remained in place for over two years between March 2020 and November 2022 was particularly hard for some of the regional airports in the U.S. that heavily…