AMERICA'S LOCAL SERVICE AIRLINES - Tecno-Libro

. in the 1950s and 1960s, the United States was blanketed by a group of air carriers that served virtually every nook and cranny of the Lower 48 states. Residents of smaller cities, such as Hazleton, Penn.. Moultrie, Ga.. and Gallup, N.M., could board a 21-28 passenger Douglas DC-3 at their hometown airport and be on their way to any place else in the world. The 13 airlines selected to provide this convenience eventually wound up serving 580 cities in the U.S. with a fleet of more than 400 aircraft. These were America s permanently-certificated Local Service Airlines. The Locals, as they were called, received public service revenue, or subsidy, from the federal government to cover the losses they incurred from providing transportation to places that did not generate enough passenger traffic to cover expenses. in his book, Airlines of the United States Since 1914 , Ron Davies remark