On the recordMarch 31, 2011
Essential Air Service assists over 140 communities throughout the United States. EAS, Essential Air Service, works. Let me talk about two airports, real quick. Williamsport, Pennsylvania. It was on EAS. It needed it to get their deployments up, and frankly, what's happened, it's been successful. It's now off of EAS. The program works. These folks are now operating without that. Dubois, Pennsylvania. Their deployments are growing at this point, and they are on the right track. The EAS is serving the correct purpose of what it has. If EAS stops and ends, here is what ends in Dubois, Pennsylvania: private sector jobs totaling $9 million in payroll and $28.8 million in economic activity. I just do my best to encourage the support of the Essential Air Service. I do think it's very important for rural America.
