CrackRabbit
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- Mar 30, 2001
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most of them are not the big carriers. Great lakes air and sky west serve many out here. That's sorta the point. There is no money to be made without tickets like I had to pay to go to get home to see my grandmother on her death bed. $1300 from Williston ND to Michigan with a layover in MSP. that was even through our corp. travel center! I could not even get a ticket through normal consumer channels. That is the service we would see if there was no eas. right now its around 600 to fly to michigan out of Rock Springs.
Fern: you would feel different about such a small government expenditure if you lived out here.
and people do have to live out here, as i stated, to support the quality of life of everyone in this country.
I hate to be an ass about this, but trying to get last minute tickets is going to cost you an arm and leg no matter if you live near a larger airport or not.
Maybe the EAS shouldn't be eliminated but reevaluated and scaled back to help provide service that truly are in the middle of nowhere instead of an hour from a larger airport.