Originally Posted by loveme117

But Boutique Air is also heading down the same path that SeaPort did: 100% dependency on EAS revenues for their network and a VERY stretched network. I read on another board where someone compared the likes of Big Sky, Great Lakes (to some extent), Air Midwest that those airlines had extremely thin resources and look where they are today. Great Lakes jumped in to fill the gaps of Skyway, RegionsAir, and Air Midwest - and look where Great Lakes is today.

Just let that sink in.

I'm not saying Boutique is in trouble, but 100% reliance on EAS subsidies is not a healthy foundation for a company. Congress could decide tomorrow to not fund EAS in FY17 if they wanted to.

There are only a very small handful of airlines that have little to no reliance on EAS subsidies -- Seaborne (albeit they get lots of government subsidies by other means), Island Air (Hawaii), now Silver, Mokulele, and Tradewind.