Chautauqua County officials are on board with trying to restore Essential Air Service at the Jamestown airport.

We remain unconvinced that passengers, not to mention the federal government, are ready to climb back on board passenger service at the Jamestown airport. We haven’t yet seen anything that says the federal government is about to open the federal spending floodgates, nor have we seen anything that says ridership at the airport is going to explode if an Essential Air Service subsidy is reinstated by the federal government.

County lawmakers are bound and determined to plow ahead with efforts to reinstate Essential Air Service and, it seems, to pursue........

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