The Essential Air Service program, which I think was created October 1978 during deregulation, is an important program.
A one-size-fits-all on air policy does not work in my state for some of the reasons I just mentioned.
82 percent of the communities in Alaska are not accessible by road.
if you split Alaska in half, Texas would be the third largest state in the country.
I need your commitment to work with states like mine and others on the Essential Air Service program to make sure that t...
251 communities in my state are exclusively accessed by air only, no roads.
I think there are only 17 other countries in the world that are bigger than Alaska.
I think you will see bipartisan support here, but we want to kind of finalize that with the VA to make sure you guys are...
I have deep reservations about any proposal to transfer the FAA's air traffic facilities to a quasi-private corporation.
I think you have the support of this Committee behind you on that.
I have one final question I will submit for the record, but it actually relates to the vacant and underutilized list of ...