Essential Air Service payments 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 The facts do not publish a median, a range, or unique recipients.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 Unique recipient names are unpublished and are not invented here.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.

Alaska geography on the 20.901 tag

AK is the place-of-performance code. Payments can post to a community, carrier, or statewide address. Awards coded to Washington or other states stay outside $194,968,173 even when a hub carrier is based there. The facts do not split the 325 awards by community.

Alaska federal spending is the all-program parent. 20.901 is one row on Alaska programs. $195.0 million is not the state’s complete federal footprint. Open Payments For Essential Air Services in Alaska for the filtered table, CFDA 20.901 for the catalog without an Alaska filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $194,968,173.

What Essential Air Service in Alaska does not prove

A large 20.901 total tagged to Alaska does not measure enplanements, fare levels, or communities served. It does not equal invoices paid to carriers. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. The headline remains $194,968,173 on 325 awards for Payments For Essential Air Services in Alaska.

Keep both sides of the join: Payments For Essential Air Services and Alaska, obligations only. Do not annualize $194,968,173 without a year field—this packet publishes none. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than a bush-aviation story. Carrier names are not in the facts.

Using the Alaska × 20.901 overlay

The overlay target is the Alaska × CFDA 20.901 table. Open the matching overlay when you want the same $194,968,173 / 325-award cell in the site’s data chrome. CFDA 20.901 drops the Alaska filter. Alaska federal spending drops the CFDA filter. Alaska programs lists other catalogs beside this pair. All spending ties indexes other pairs.

This page exists because two tables meet: a CFDA program and a place-of-performance state. It does not exist to rank Alaska, to name contractors, or to treat obligations as cash. The pair is 20.901 plus AK. Obligations of $194,968,173 are not outlays. Cite Payments For Essential Air Services together with Alaska whenever you reuse $194,968,173. 325 remains an award-record count on USAspending.gov. The overlay path is the live table for this 20.901 × AK cell. Later bulk files can restate $194,968,173 without changing the join key. Place of performance remains Alaska; CFDA remains 20.901. Do not fold Airport Improvement Program 20.106 into $194,968,173. Do not treat 325 as a community roster.

Limits of the packet facts for Alaska 20.901

The packet publishes four numbers and two labels: $194,968,173, 325 awards, Alaska, and CFDA 20.901 titled Payments For Essential Air Services. It does not publish fiscal year, unique recipients, or outlays. Names of contractors, agencies, and beneficiaries are unpublished and are not invented here.

Researchers who need award-level rows should open the overlay table and USAspending.gov rather than stretch $194,968,173 into a program evaluation. The join is a filter, not a causal claim. FEC files do not explain the 325 awards. Keep Payments For Essential Air Services named with Alaska in every reuse of $194,968,173. AwardCount stays 325 until a new ingest revises it. Cite USAspending.gov. Obligations of $194,968,173 are not outlays. Correlation is not causation.

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.