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July 19, 2011

Federal legislation could cut subsidy

Randy Griffith rgriffith@tribdem.com The Tribune-Democrat Tue Jul 19, 2011, 11:25 PM EDT

— Federal legislation that would cut support for Johnstown commuter flights has airport leaders concerned, but not panicked.

“We hope it doesn’t go away,” Chairman David Weaver said after Tuesday’s Johnstown-Cambria County Airport Authority meeting.

Loss of the Essential Air Service subsidy could eliminate commercial air service at John Murtha-Johnstown Cambria County Airport.

Johnstown is among 13 airports across the country that would lose funding under a provision House Transportation Chairman John Mica, R-Fla., added Friday to a bill that must pass to keep the Federal Aviation Administration in business.

Controversial Essential Air Service subsidies pay airlines to provide service to small airports. If passed into law, the provision would eliminate the subsidies for airports within 90 miles of a larger airport.

Johnstown commuter operator Colgan Air, through its parent company, Pinnacle Airlines Corp. of Memphis, Tenn., receives $3,348,294 a year to operate flights from Johnstown and Altoona to Washington’s Dulles International Airport.

More than half that subsidy is designated for the Altoona service, which is not affected by Mica’s amendment.

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