The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- United States (U.S. Department of Transportation, Office of Aviation Analysis; Essential Air Service program communities)
- Level
- Federal
- Authority
- 49 U.S.C. § 41737(a) and the EAS contracts' force-majeure provisions
- Issued
- 2020-04-29 Apr. 29, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-01 (retroactive) (read as 2020-03-01)
- End
- 2020-06-30 ("unless extended by the Department") (read as 2020-06-30)
- In force
- Mar. 1, 2020 to June 30, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Travel and quarantineOther
- Addressees
- EAS carriers and the roughly 170 subsidized EAS communities
- Functions reached
- OP EAS carrier schedules (federally sanctioned reductions to small-community service)
- CB small-community airports, their concessions and travel-dependent businesses
- TR
- Collection
- Aviation and surface-transport regulators AGY-AVIATION-SURFACE
Operative words
"The 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." "[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." "Dated: April 29, 2020."
Enforcement
EAS contract administration; 49 U.S.C. § 41737
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.
Retrieval noteDescribe by category. the notice's own date is its issue date; not changed.