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Kirksville extends Essential Air Service

Posted: 03.26.2010 at 4:42 PM

KIRKSVILLE, MO -- Kirksville leaders can breathe a sigh of fresh air. City Manager Mari Macomber confirmed on Friday that Kirksville’s Essential Air Service (EAS) will be extended for two more years.

“We got word this week that Kirksville’s air service will be bid again for another two year period” Macomber said. “What that means to us is that we will continue to have commercial air service. We believe we are going to have at least two air carriers bid on the service.”

The contract that Kirksville Regional Airport has now through Air Choice One will expire late this year. Macomber and a other representatives flew to Washington D.C. last week to meet with lawmakers and officials from the U.S. Department of Transportation about continuing EAS.

"In our meeting with the U.S. Department of Transportation, they told us from a staff level they wanted to move forward with Kirksville” Macomber said. "The air service is an economic developmental tool, most defiantly. For businesses to be able to come in and out and connect to other flights to get to their destinations to conduct business, that’s vital."

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