Bismarck (CSi) Senator Heidi Heitkamp says under President Trump’s proposed budget for the 2018 fiscal year the Essential Air Service program, that subsidizes commercial passenger service to airports in Jamestown, Devils Lake and Dickinson would be eliminated.
The cuts in the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Essential Air Service program would save $175 million.
Heitkamp’s office, has reported that the U.S. Department of Transportation through Essential Air Service contibutes $2.8 million annually in Jamestown Regional Airport, $4 million at the Devils Lake Regional Airport and $4.6 at the Dickinson Airport.
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