Originally Posted by
bedrock
Can you explain this about EAS, I thought the taxes on the airline tickets pay for the govt. svcs such as airport fees and atc. Also, couldn't the farm folks drive to a bigger city to get service? I can think of a few places that got EAS and are within 2-3 hrs drive of a city with airline service.
The "farm folk" would and could drive, It's the public employee/government/legal type workers that fit & ***** about having to drive out to that podunk town and spend a night.
In the big scheme of things 200M a year for the EAS is pretty small fries.