Payments for Essential Air Services in Alaska

What the 20.901–Alaska join reports

CFDA 20.901 is titled PAYMENTS FOR ESSENTIAL AIR SERVICES. Crossed with Alaska place of performance, the obligation sum is $194,968,173 on 325 awards. The national 20.901 hub includes other states. Alaska’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $194,968,173 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of communities with scheduled service.

Airport Improvement Program (20.106) is a different catalog. Mixing AIP into $194,968,173 would invent a broader aviation total than this cell contains. Packet facts are $194,968,173, 325 awards, AK, and 20.901. Correlation is not causation. Fisheries Disaster Relief 11.477 is a separate Alaska join.

Three hundred twenty-five awards under Alaska EAS

325 awards against $194,968,173 yield a simple mean near $599,902. The facts do not publish a median, a range, or unique recipients. A high award count can reflect community-level or carrier-level instruments, but 325 is still a record count in an aggregate, not 325 airports and not 325 carriers.

Many instruments can share one carrier across modifications. Unique recipient names are unpublished and are not invented here. Downward modifications, if they exist in the raw file, are already netted into the total supplied in the facts. Treat the mean as arithmetic, not as a typical route subsidy without a distribution.

Questions

How much Essential Air Service funding is obligated in Alaska?

USAspending records $194,968,173 in CFDA 20.901 obligations with Alaska place of performance across 325 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay and not a route census. Keep Payments For Essential Air Services and Alaska together when citing $194,968,173.

Does 325 awards mean 325 Alaska airports?

No. The facts report 325 award records totaling $194,968,173. Airport and carrier names are unpublished. One carrier can post many instruments. 325 is a record count, not an airfield census. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 20.901 × AK pair.

Is this Alaska’s total federal aviation spending?

No. This join is CFDA 20.901 only. Airport Improvement and other DOT catalogs appear on separate Alaska program pages. Nationwide 20.901 is not limited to Alaska. Obligations of $194,968,173 are not outlays.

Do campaign donations fund Alaska Essential Air Service awards?

No. FEC contribution files and USAspending award files are different datasets. This page reports $194,968,173 in 20.901 obligations tagged to Alaska. Correlation is not causation. Do not treat donations as the funding source.