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Small Community Air Service
Development Program Grants
View SCG's
2009 announcement here.
The federal Small Community Air Service Development Program is one
of the preferred ways for smaller airports to raise capital in
support of new routes, and more competition. Sixel Consulting Group
has been active in helping airports win grants since the Program’s
inception early in the decade. In fact, since 2002, SCG written
SCASD Grant proposals have won client airports nearly $10 million
for new air service.
One Sixel Consulting Group Grant proposal has been called the most
successful ever – a project to bring United Express service to Idaho
Falls Regional Airport, from the Denver hub. SCG was successful in
its bid for $450,000 in federal revenue guarantee funding. United
launched CRJ service on the route in 2005. The route was profitable
from the very first flight. At no point did the airline dip into
any Grant or local funding. The Grant money was returned to the
Department of Transportation, for use in another community, in
2008. The service is flown twice daily – and still profitable –
today.
We’ve also helped airports win money for other projects, including
marketing and advertising programs, and start-up cost offsets.
SCG recently completed an in-depth analysis of all the SCASD Grants,
from inception to today. We figured out what’s worked best, and
what hasn’t worked at all – based on long term success in meeting an
airport’s stated goals. We’re happy to share our Grant research
with you. Just contact our Director of Market Analysis, Jack
Penning, at jack@sixelconsulting.com. |
