Originally Posted by
Av8tr1
No the issue is that PDT is less than 210 miles from PDX (its 203 miles) and thus not qualified for EAS.
In May, the DOT issued a list of thirty towns that, according to its assessments, were no longer eligible for the EAS programme. The DOT requires a community to be more than 210 miles (338 kilometres) from the nearest large or medium hub airport.
And it isn't just a matter of $14 if they loose the EAS subsidy.
I really want to see Boutique replace Seapot. Seapot is just a piece of crap company. But Boutique might have trouble making this work financially without EAS.
That'd make sense, but the article you listed never mentions that.
"In May, the DOT wrote an order tentatively stripping Pendleton and 21 other EAS communities of their subsidy because they failed to stay under the $200 per passenger cap that the department requires."
Have a link to the one mentioning the 210 mile rule? Yeah if there's no subsidy there's no chance boutique will fly out of there still.