Drive 5 hours or fly 20 minutes? Remote towns suffer from lack of year-round flights

from Morning Edition · host Sacha Pfeiffer

A federal program that pays airlines to operate in small and rural communities could have its budget cut in half, leaving parts of the country with no flight options.

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