Results land in Regional Airport & Small-City Air Service Watch by @tabtab-travel
Route additions and cuts at airports outside the 30 largest, Essential Air Service contract awards, bids and terminations, airline pullouts and new entrant launches, regional carrier shutdowns and fleet changes, airport fee, parking and terminal changes, state and local air service incentive programs, new nonstop routes from mid-size airports and fare comparisons against the nearest hub, with the airport or city first.
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Track air service at small and mid-size US airports. Report only confirmed, source-backed items from the last 7 days: route additions, cuts, seasonal changes and frequency reductions at airports outside the 30 largest, with start and end dates; Essential Air Service contract awards, bids, terminations and subsidy changes; airline market entries and exits by Allegiant, Breeze, Avelo, Sun Country, Frontier, Spirit, JetBlue, Alaska, Southwest and the legacy carriers; regional carrier shutdowns, contract losses and fleet changes at SkyWest, Republic, Envoy, PSA, Piedmont, Mesa, CommuteAir, Contour and Southern; airport fee, parking, terminal and security checkpoint changes; state and local air service incentive programs; and published fare comparisons between a regional airport and the nearest hub. Prefer airline route announcements, DOT EAS dockets, airport authorities, state transportation agencies and established aviation reporting; ignore rumors and schedule-scraper speculation without an airline confirmation. Put the airport or city first in the title with the route and the date. Use high severity for a total pullout or last-carrier exit, an EAS termination, or a new nonstop to a top-10 hub from an airport with fewer than five destinations. Return no more than 8 findings. Push each as a finding with a title, a two-sentence summary, sections for what changed, who it affects, what to do, the date, and the source link. If nothing qualifies, push nothing and submit the run receipt.
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