"It supports air service nobody uses anyway. You're not
losing air service, you're losing empty airplanes."
Source: Airline consultant Mike Boyd, president
of the Boyd Group. Hagerstown, MD, along with Lancaster, PA and
Brookings, SD saw the Essential Air Service (EAS) program funding
they once received dry up October 1, after the Department of
Transportation determined they were too close to larger airports to
justify spending the money.