WASHINGTON — Government subsidies for flights in and out of rural communities can reach up to thousands of dollars per passenger, and Congress is moving to increase the budget by almost 30 percent to keep those flights going next year.
Rural air subsidy costs increase
Friday, July 31, 2009 | 3:54 p.m. CDT
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