Essential Air Service (EAS)

Tang, Rachel Y.

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

关键词: Transportation;    Airlines;    Commercial aviation;    Airline law and legislation;   

RP-ID  :  R44176
RP-ID  :  R44176_2015Sep03

美国|英语

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

This report discusses Congress' establishment of the Essential Air Service (EAS), a program to ensure that small communities that were served by certificated air carriers before the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 would continue to receive scheduled passenger service, with subsidies if necessary.Deregulation gave airlines almost total freedom to determine which domestic markets to serve and what airfares to charge, which raised the concern that communities with relatively low passenger levels would lose service as carriers shifted their operations to serve larger and often more profitable markets.