I assumed EAS airports serviced small isolated towns, but I was surprised to see on the list Pueblo, CO, a city of 111 thousand population. For comparison Gunnison, CO, a town of under 7 thousand population has commercial air service. I’m guessing the nearby Crested Butte ski resort is a big reason. Apparently EAS is more useful for mobility of average citizens.
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That is its purpose. To provide air service to communities that are a significant distance from regular air service. I’m not sure why Pueblo needs it, since it’s only 45 miles from COS. Crested Butte is the reason. I’ve flown into Gunnison when I went skiing there. To be correct, I only flew out of there, since our inbound flight was diverted to Montrose, on account of a snowstorm. We had to take the bus from there.
Work. No Marshall Dillon in town, but the local Boot Hill Museum features a production with Miss Kitty, dancing girls, and gunfights. Along with a first class history of the area and lots and lots of historical artifacts and photographs. Well worth the visit.
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Altoona, PA, which is where I was reared, has three EAS flights a day to or from Charlotte, NC, with connections to or from numerous cities.
The flights operate out of the Blair Country Airport, which is in Martinsburg, PA. It is roughly 22 miles from Altoona.
Altoona has a population of approximately 42,500. Blair County has a population of approximately 122,000.
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I see the biased censorship is alive and well, I got the message that one of my posts was Flagged and removed, but the post it responded to is still up
Doug
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Only one? I should be so lucky.
Just one, so far today 
On one of our Telluride ski trips we decided to split the week between there and Crested Butte. We flew in and out of Montrose. At the end of the week it started to snow as we left Crested Butte for the airport. While we were waiting on the plane, a busload of harried skiers came in from CB, as their plane had been diverted from Gunnison to Montrose. Apparently a not infrequent event.
Just to qualify for some railroad content, in a 1994 trip to Telluride we ate at the ex-Rio Grande Southern depot which had been turned into a restaurant. The restaurant went out of business, and the depot is now some sort of art institute. There used to be a RGS Galloping Goose by the court house, but it went out for restoration. The shuttle bus in town is also called the Galloping Goose.
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Was that pun intended? “back on track”. If not, it still was funny and the correct thing to say. IMHO regards mike endmrw1102251530
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ALWAYS these things are predicated by, What I Want. Hardly ever are decisions based on what is best for the most concerned, (as in, we the people, citizens as a whole). All pay taxes, and are tax monies paid back to us through programs to help in all areas of life?
Obiously passenger service cannot return to be like the old days.
CH2 started this by asking: …MY answer, look how many EAS are in my state. We have a bunch. Reason, Only one train, and long distances traveled to major cities w/big airports.
BTW My relative prepositioned my car, took me to an EAS flight to St. Louis, rode the surface local “subway” out to the River, rode back to Amtrak station, Boarded the Texas Eagle and got off to get my car. WOW PTL for EAS. regards mike endmrw1102251550
OOOOPs
PnP sed and CH2 commented…I agree w/CH2 but meant my puzzle face for PnP…NOT CH2 (sorry) see my story at the end of this thread. mike endmrw1102251559
Thanks for the anecdote. EAS is flexible whereas passenger rail is not. So it is a way to provide passenger infrastructure access to more people.
Or grab some votes in contested areas?
Both can be true. Approval of a government subsidized anything depends on perspective.
Respectfully disagree. Please see #30 of this thread. I do appreciate the many posts you offer. In fact I have computer/kept the EAS service areas you posted. And that map shows how we are “almost” like Alaska. Thanks too Stevens who started the EAS program long ago. regards mike endmrw1102252100
Posts in a thread are numbered? Where?
On the right above the blue bell
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Thanks.
On a phone, you have a counter (xx/##) in the lower right corner. This is also very useful in telling you how many posts you have to scroll through in a ‘revived’ or zombie thread.
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I must be losing it, although some might suggest I never had it. The blue box with numbers, so obvious. Thanks!
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