{"id":"AGY-AVIATION-SURFACE-042","kind":"order","level":"federal","jurisdiction":"United States (U.S. Department of Transportation, Office of Aviation Analysis; Essential Air Service program communities)","state":"","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"AVIATION-SURFACE","eco":"","issuer":"U.S. Department of Transportation, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Aviation and International Affairs","authority":"49 U.S.C. § 41737(a) and the EAS contracts\u0027 force-majeure provisions","instrument":"Notice Regarding Current Administration and Enforcement of the Essential Air Service Program (Apr. 29, 2020)","title":"Notice Regarding Current Administration and Enforcement of the Essential Air Service Program (subsidy for non-completed EAS flights; reduced EAS service during COVID-19)","dateIssued":"2020-04-29","effective":"2020-03-01 (retroactive)","end":"2020-06-30 (\u0022unless extended by the Department\u0022)","startDate":"2020-03-01","endDate":"2020-06-30","quarters":["2020Q2"],"types":["TRAV","OTHER"],"addressees":["EAS carriers and the roughly 170 subsidized EAS communities"],"clause":"\u0022The U.S. Department of Transportation Office of the Assistant Secretary for Aviation and International Affairs is providing notice that it will authorize subsidy payments for certain noncompleted flights under the Essential Air Service (EAS) Program given the significant reduction in passenger demand caused by the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) public health emergency and the financial impact on air carriers.\u0022 \u0022[This policy is] effective as of March 1, 2020, the date that the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States constituted a national emergency, and will remain in effect through June 30, 2020, unless extended by the Department.\u0022 \u0022Dated: April 29, 2020.\u0022","enforcement":"EAS contract administration; 49 U.S.C. § 41737","functions":["OP EAS carrier schedules (federally sanctioned reductions to small-community service)","CB small-community airports, their concessions and travel-dependent businesses","TR"],"notes":"The federal directive that permitted EAS carriers to reduce scheduled service to small communities while keeping subsidy, documenting the demand collapse from Mar. 1, 2020.","sourceUrl":"https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/2020-04/EAS%20Notice%204292020.pdf","snapshot":"http://web.archive.org/web/20200429232050/https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/2020-04/EAS%20Notice%204292020.pdf","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":236446,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"AGY-AVIATION-SURFACE","url":"/library/AGY-AVIATION-SURFACE-042","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/AGY-AVIATION-SURFACE-042","citation":"U.S. Department of Transportation, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Aviation and International Affairs, Notice Regarding Current Administration and Enforcement of the Essential Air Service Program (Apr. 29, 2020) (Ex. AGY-AVIATION-SURFACE-042)","stateName":"","related":[]}