Small Community Air Service White Paper Series

There are over 500 commercial service airports in the United States, and a majority of these airports serve fewer than 100,000 passengers per year. For many small communities, these local airports provide vital connections to social and economic opportunities throughout the country and around the globe. The MIT Small Community Air Service White Paper Series focuses on providing quantitative analysis of trends and forces shaping small community air service, including connectivity, fares, airport accessibility, and the looming pilot shortage in the regional airline industry. The results of MIT ICAT studies on small community air service have been featured in major media outlets and cited multiple times by the Government Accountability Office and the U.S. Congress.