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30/07/10, 05:42:55 EDT
Today's News
Airline Subsidy Cut Leaves Town Flightlesswjz.com The Hagerstown Regional Airport is finishing up a $62 million runway project. Now all it needs is an airline.Hagerstown lost scheduled commercial air service October 1st because the federal Transportation Department deemed them ineligible for continued subsidies under the Essential Air Service program. The reason: Hagerstown is too close to bigger airports. The area's congressional representatives are fighting to restore the subsidies -- even though the 19-seat, propeller-driven planes used for the daily flights to Pittsburgh often flew mostly empty. But critics say cuts to the program are long overdue. Aviation consultant Michael Boyd says the program supports air service nobody uses. 
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published Nov 04, 2007
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