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Small Airports Face Big Struggles Staying Aloft

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No commercial planes currently fly into Klamath Falls.

Flying passengers into small cities can be a tricky business.  Not the flying part; the keeping the airline in business part. 

Two airports in our region provide the lesson, one in Klamath Falls and the other in Crescent City.  Crescent City still has flights (to Oakland), because it is a federal Essential Air Service airport. 

Klamath Falls just missed out on getting EAS funding in an act of Congress, so remains an airport with no commercial flights.  We explore the issues of small-airport lights with Linda Tepper from the City of Klamath Falls and Susan Daugherty from Crescent City.  

 

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Geoffrey Riley is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and has hosted the Jefferson Exchange on JPR since 2009. He's been a broadcaster in the Rogue Valley for more than 35 years, working in both television and radio.