To communities unable to support scheduled service on their own. As such, they're ripe for alternatives, including general aviation, frac tional or per-seat charter options. But that debate needs to occur on its own merits, separate from the larger one revolving around FAA funding. That's especially true since the $187 million the EAS cost during the last fiscal year was more than eclipsed when the airline ticket tax expired along with the short-term FAA ex tension. Estimates are the inability to collect the ticket tax meant a $1.3 billion shortfall in revenues over the two-week period.
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