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Article: Airline to switch service from Reading to Lancaster

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June 22, 2004
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One airport's loss is another airport's gain.

When Phoenix-based Mesa Airlines launches commercial air service at Lancaster Airport in three months, it won't have to move its planes very far.

Mesa will discontinue its three daily flights to Pittsburgh from Reading Regional Airport on Sept. 4, one day before it begins service here as US Airways Express.

Reading is losing service after 47 years because it does not qualify for Federal Aviation Authority Essential Air Service (EAS) funding offered to airports more than 70 miles from a major hub. Reading Regional is 61 miles from Philadelphia International Airport.

Colgan Air pulled out of Lancaster in April 2003, leaving the local airport ...

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