Essential Air Service Program
U.S. Department of Transportation program created under the Airline Deregulation Act and federal aviation law to preserve scheduled air-service access for eligible small communities. DOT administers recurring carrier selections, subsidies, service requirements, and alternate EAS grants so communities retain a link to the National Air Transportation System when commercial service would otherwise be unavailable.
Identity
- Aliases
- Essential Air ServiceEAS ProgramAlternate Essential Air ServiceAEAS
- Domains
- aviation
- Name
- Essential Air Service Program
- Status
- active
- Types
- operationsacquisitioninfrastructure
Details
- Description
- U.S. Department of Transportation program created under the Airline Deregulation Act and federal aviation law to preserve scheduled air-service access for eligible small communities. DOT administers recurring carrier selections, subsidies, service requirements, and alternate EAS grants so communities retain a link to the National Air Transportation System when commercial service would otherwise be unavailable.
- Leads
- Participants
- -
Assets & Meta
- Creation Time
- August 15, 2026 at 06:27:52 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 15, 2026 at 06:27:52 UTC
Other
- Official Urls
- https://www.transportation.gov/policy/aviation-policy/small-community-rural-air-service/essential-air-servicehttps://www.transportation.gov/office-policy/aviation-policy/essential-air-service-reportshttps://www.transportation.gov/policy/aviation-policy/what-essential-air-servicehttps://www.faa.gov/airports/aip/eas_eda