Thu, Nov 26 2009
|
|
Air Midwest seeking OK to halt service to Joplin “If you’re flying out of Kansas City, it’s 90 percent cheaper to go out there than Tulsa, Springfield or Northwest Arkansas,” Brown said. Dallas also is a popular destination from Joplin, though less so, she said.
Air Midwest provided flights to Dallas until mid-2006 but ended them, citing declining passenger counts. Brown said she hopes another carrier can be found to provide service to Kansas City. “If they had St. Louis, that would be OK too,” she said. The EAS program was put into place after airlines were deregulated in 1978 to ensure flight service to small or rural cities that had airlines at the time that pulled out because of financial losses. EAS initially cost federal taxpayers about $100 million a year, but decreased flights and increased profitability in some markets have decreased the cost to taxpayers in recent years to as low as $25 million, according to the DOT’s office of aviation analysis. Congress usually budgets about $50 million a year for the program. The DOT paid $850,000 a year to Air Midwest for Joplin’s service. A total of 103 other cities in the United States receive EAS. Other towns Air Midwest has notified the DOT that it wants to end service to the other Midwest cities it serves, including Columbia and Kirksville in Missouri; Manhattan and Salina, Kan.; Grand Island and McCook, Neb.; and El Dorado, Harrison, Hot Springs and Jonesboro, Ark. 
•
Click to discuss this story with other readers on our forums.
More from the Home section
|
Print this story
E-mail this story
Post to del.icio.us
Discuss this story
Photographer documents struggle with cystic fibrosis w/ slide show and link to National Transplant Assistance Fund page
Joplin’s Seventh Street to be closed until 5 p.m.
 |
 |
: Special Offer For New Subscribers
:
 |
|||||||
|
|||||||
 |
|
|
Published by Newspaper Holding, Inc. 117 East Fourth Street, Joplin, MO 64801 Using our site is your agreement to the terms and conditions. News: news@joplinglobe.com • (417)623-3480 Advertise with the Joplin Globe Copyright © 2006 The Joplin Globe, Joplin, MO All rights reserved. 
|
Popular Business directory links - Joplin Apartments | Joplin Attorneys | Joplin Auto Dealers | Joplin Auto Parts | Joplin Auto Repair | Joplin Beauty Salons | Joplin Car Rental | Joplin Dentists | Joplin Doctors | Joplin Flowers | Joplin Hotels | Joplin Insurance | Joplin Loans | Joplin Mortgages | Joplin Movers | Joplin Pizza | Joplin Realtors | Joplin Restaurants | Joplin Storage | Joplin Tax Preparation | Joplin Travel | Joplin Featured | More...
|
|
Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc. • CNHI Classified Advertising Network • CNHI News Service |
