| With so much emphasis on cheap, sustainable transportation in the past few months, I decided to focus on just the "cheap" transportation this time.
We all know the airline industry is struggling, with news of increasing baggage fees and charging for amenities that used to be given for free. Often the most expensive part of a trip is the cost to travel to and from the destination. I know that flying is more about luxury than the public transit we've discussed in the past, but there are people who use it to commute for work purposes. With that, comes news that JetAmerica will offer flights at midsized airports in cities such as Lansing as low as $9 per flight.
The Lansing, South Bend, Melbourne and Toledo airports are subsidizing JetAmerica with $1.4 million in grants in its first year, along with about $867,000 in waived airport fees and $1.1 million in marketing and advertising assistance.
South Bend, Toledo and Melbourne received their grants from the U.S. Department of Transportation's Small Community Air Service Development Program, which has awarded $104 million to 223 recipients since 2002 in an effort to restore lost service and bring air fares down.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30...
Hopefully all of those people flying out of Lansing have booked a return flight. |
