Several small airports in the U.P. are looking at an uncertain future with federal rural airport funding hanging in the balance. This story has points of view on the subject from small airport officials in the U.P. and northern lower Michigan.
Excerpt: A funding debate in Washington has 140 rural airports throughout the nation questioning whether they will have commercial service by the middle of the decade.
Created following the 1978 airport deregulation, the Essential Air Service program was developed to entice airline carriers to continue their service in smaller airports in remote locations in places such as the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and northern Alaska.
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Source: The Petoskey News-Review
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