VA: Federal Money Used For People Express From Program With Spotty Record

July 26, 2017

In September 2014, Yeager Airport in Charleston, W.Va., finally made good on a promise to give its community more flights. It was bringing in People Express.

Yeager planned to do this with funds from the same federal pool of money that Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport was using to launch People Express — a program that the U.S. Government Accountability Office says has a mixed record.

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