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House adopts Essential Air Services resolution

LANSING, MI--   The Michigan House has adopted a resolution introduced by Representative Beau LaFave urging the president and Congress to continue fully funding the Essential Air Services program. 

The program provides smaller communities around the country with commercial airline services.

President Trump had recommended cuts to the program’s budget, which would affect five airports in the U.P

The Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 gave airlines the freedom to select the markets they wanted to serve. Congress created the Essential Air Services program as a response to ensure that smaller communities would not lose commercial airline services.

Nicole was born near Detroit but has lived in the U.P. most of her life. She graduated from Marquette Senior High School and attended Michigan State and Northern Michigan Universities, graduating from NMU in 1993 with a degree in English.