Cape Air boardings are taking off in Eastern Montana

Cape Air https://www.capeair.com/where_we_fly/montana.html flights to Eastern Montana have become a hot-ticket item since the Massachusetts-based airline became the Essential Air Service provider between Billings and five rural Montana communities. The service provides federally subsidized flights to rural communities that are long driving distances from urban airports and would otherwise have no commercial flights.

The airline transported 7,112 Montana passengers through April, according to flight data from the Montana Department of Transportation. By comparison, Silver Airways, the previous Essential Air Service provider for rural Montana, finished 2013 with 13,508 boardings.

By Tom Lutey

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