Cleveland air service gets $8.5M subsidy without media or political scrutiny

Nice that Crain's Cleveland Business, which rips the state for a rail plan whose details are widely scrutinized, glosses over a newly awarded airline subsidy and provides no details whatsoever about the subsidy per route, proposed usage, cost/benefit ratios or anything else......

Gulfstream International Group secures fed subsidy to provide air service to Cleveland
8:53 am, September 20, 2010

Gulfstream International Group Inc. (AMEX: GIA), a Florida-based operator of a fleet of commuter aircraft, said it will receive $8.5 million in federal subsidies under the Essential Air Service Program for flights between five small communities and Cleveland.

The U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded the company new, two-year contracts as the Essential Air Service provider for the communities of Bradford, Pa.; DuBois, Pa.; Franklin/Oil City, Pa.; Parkersburg, W. Va.; and Jamestown, N.Y. Gulfstream operates flights from all five cities to Cleveland.

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