Payments For Essential Air Services awarded by Transportation
USAspending.gov records $2,347,305,481.30 in Payments For Essential Air Services obligations awarded by the Department of Transportation. CFDA 20.901 joined to agency 069 lists 874 award records and matches the program-wide total of $2,347,305,481.30. The join is not an airport roster and not subsidy checks already cleared.
Key figures
- USAspending records $2,347,305,481.30 in Essential Air Service payments via DOT (CFDA 20.901).
- The join matches the program-wide published total of $2,347,305,481.30.
- 874 award records are not an airport or carrier census.
- Obligations are not outlays; FEC donations do not fund this total.
DOT's essential-air-service cell
Payments For Essential Air Services and the Department of Transportation meet in one cell. $2,347,305,481.30 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum for CFDA 20.901 with awarding agency 069. It is not the Bridge Formula Program, not a passenger-enplanement table, and not an outlay. Carriers and communities are unnamed. Other DOT CFDA lines stay on the agency hub.
An essential-air-service label invites a list of subsidized airports. This packet does not publish airports. Assigning $2,347,305,481.30 to one community adds a geography the facts omit. Correlation with airline-exit headlines is not causation.
CFDA 20.901 on agency 069
The program-wide published total is $2,347,305,481.30, the same published program-wide total as DOT's $2,347,305,481.30 slice. Open /programs/20.901/ for the program hub and /agencies/069/ for the Department of Transportation hub. Do not add those parents into this join.
All programs (/programs/) and All spending ties (/ties/) list other keys. Quote Payments For Essential Air Services and the Department of Transportation with $2,347,305,481.30.
874 records are not 874 EAS communities
874 is the award-record count on this essential-air × DOT join. It is not a community census and not unique carriers. This page does not divide $2,347,305,481.30 by 874. Modifications can add rows without adding airports.
What the DOT essential-air packet omits
No outlays, no airport file, no named carriers, no FEC overlay. Campaign donations do not fund these USAspending obligations. Cite CFDA 20.901, agency 069, and $2,347,305,481.30 together.
Where the 20.901–069 pair sits
Use /programs/20.901/ for CFDA 20.901, /agencies/069/ for Transportation, /programs/ for every program, and /ties/ for other joins. Keep both sides of the pair in the citation.
The 874 award-record count stays on this cell. Filings remain on USAspending.gov. Obligations of $2,347,305,481.30 are not outlays. Keep Payments For Essential Air Services and Department of Transportation together when citing $2,347,305,481.30. CFDA 20.901 and agency 069 are the join keys. Obligations of $2,347,305,481.30 are not outlays. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this pair. Campaign-finance tables do not fund these USAspending obligations. Unique recipients remain unpublished on this program-agency join. The All programs index and All spending ties index are larger than this cell. A later USAspending ingest can restate $2,347,305,481.30 without changing the join keys. Keep Payments For Essential Air Services and Department of Transportation together when citing $2,347,305,481.30. CFDA 20.901 and agency 069 are the join keys. Obligations of $2,347,305,481.30 are not outlays. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this pair. Campaign-finance tables do not fund these USAspending obligations. Unique recipients remain unpublished on this program-agency join. The All programs index and All spending ties index are larger than this cell. A later USAspending ingest can restate $2,347,305,481.30 without changing the join keys. Keep Payments For Essential Air Services and Department of Transportation together when citing $2,347,305,481.30. CFDA 20.901 and agency 069 are the join keys. Obligations of $2,347,305,481.30 are not outlays. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this pair. Campaign-finance tables do not fund these USAspending obligations. Unique recipients remain unpublished on this program-agency join. The All programs index and All spending ties index are larger than this cell. A later USAspending ingest can restate $2,347,305,481.30 without changing the join keys. Keep Payments For Essential Air Services and Department of Transportation together when citing $2,347,305,481.30. CFDA 20.901 and agency 069 are the join keys. Obligations of $2,347,305,481.30 are not outlays. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this pair. Campaign-finance tables do not fund these USAspending obligations. Unique recipients remain unpublished on this program-agency join. The All programs index and All spending ties index are larger than this cell.
Questions
- How much Essential Air Service money did DOT obligate?
- USAspending.gov records $2,347,305,481.30 in Payments For Essential Air Services obligations awarded by the Department of Transportation under CFDA 20.901. That sum is an obligation total, not an outlay. Keep Payments For Essential Air Services and Department of Transportation on the same citation as $2,347,305,481.30.
- Which airports receive EAS payments?
- This packet does not name airports or carriers. It publishes $2,347,305,481.30 on CFDA 20.901 via agency 069, matching the program-wide total of $2,347,305,481.30 on this extract. 874 is the award-record count on this join, not a named-recipient census.
- Do 874 awards mean 874 essential-air communities?
- No. 874 is the award-record count on this DOT join, not a community or carrier census. Unique recipients are unpublished. Obligations of $2,347,305,481.30 are not outlays. The pair is CFDA 20.901 plus agency 069.
- Do FEC donations fund Essential Air Service awards?
- No. Campaign-finance tables do not fund these USAspending obligations. $2,347,305,481.30 is an obligation aggregate. Outlays are unpublished on this page. USAspending.gov remains the source for CFDA 20.901 via agency 069. The pair is CFDA 20.901 plus agency 069.
USAspending.gov CFDA program joined to awarding agency. Obligations are not outlays.