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Latest News: Municipal airport receives $250,000

Published 7/11/2011 in Latest News By Shajia

By The Telegram

The Garden City Regional Airport has been awarded a $250,000 grant from a state-sponsored affordable airfares program to help bolster its case to federal authorities for regional jet service.
The Regional Economic Area Partnership of South Central Kansas, which administers funds from the Kansas Affordable Airfares Program, or KAAP, made the award to Garden City, marking the first time funds from the program have been offered outside Wichita’s Mid-Continent Airport.
The central Kansas airport historically has been awarded all $5 million available through KAAP since the program’s inception in 2006.
This year, REAP awarded Wichita's airport $4.75 million of the state’s annual allocation.  
The Garden City proposal for KAAP funds is part of a bid to secure regional jet service from American Eagle, which is proposing to offer flights to and from Dallas through the Essential Air Service Program, a federal subsidy program of the U.S. Department of Transportation that assists small rural communities with the opportunity to compete for commercial air service.
However, the proposal from American Eagle is at least $900,000 costlier than three other bids from commercial airlines, including Great Lakes Aviation, which has made a bid to Garden City to continue its service to and from Denver, city officials who have been looking for alternate methods to make up the funding gap have said.
Under a proposed partnership made public earlier this month, Dodge City is considering designating $1 million of its annual federal subsidy dollars from the EAS program in support of the Garden City Regional Airport. Under the proposed agreement, the Dodge City Airport would continue to operate, but would not offer any commercial air service, Dodge City’s city manager Ken Strobel has said.
 
For more on this story, see Tuesday’s Telegram or check back here Tuesday afternoon. 
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