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Also, the folks who live in EAS places choose to do so, generally because they like the solitude and isolation.

We have an Interstate Highway System. We already subsidize roads.

I am the last person in the US who thinks the political right is my way, but EAS is just waste of money which benefits a few hundred to a (maximum) few thousand passengers nationwide and a few wealthy airline owners who have pilots building time for very, very bad pay and in exchange get very wealthy by operating shady companies. We all know of what I speak.

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Originally Posted by captain152 (Post 972857)

Seeing as how I fly for an airline that does several of these routes ... I can say that some of them are worth it, while others' aren't. I can't count the number of times I've flown to VCT, PQI, PKB, AOO, SHD, etc. with 2-3 pax on just one leg. Pretty sure I've done it w/o any pax a number of times as well. Most of these cities are a solid 2 hr drive (there are some exceptions to this of course) from any city with scheduled air service .. so it would be a pain to make that drive when you need to go somewhere ... but at the same time how often do people that live there actually have to travel??

Two hours is nothing. If people choose to live in BFE then why should we subsidize the 3 people in that community who need to go somewhere. It's not as though we are constantly airlifting medical patients. Having a strip for emergencies is one thing but subsidizing a flight so people can connect in LAX instead of making the drive is ridiculous.

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Originally Posted by moflyer (Post 973054)

IYK does not get the EAS subsidy.

don't care, it should still go.

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Originally Posted by Terrain Inop (Post 973251)

don't care, it should still go.

You don't like IYK?

Federal EAS should go. If a state, county, or city wants to subsidize it, nothing stops them from doing it.