Air Service Funding Should Capture all Regional Beneficiaries
It’s More Difficult to Pick-up Funding After the Initial Effort

Air service funding efforts in your community should capture all the regional beneficiaries upfront during the first solicitation effort. Funding support should also be proportional from the beginning of the funding process. It is difficult to pull air service beneficiaries into “Funding Support” after the first solicitation effort.

When setting up your air service funding if you are not capturing all the regional beneficiaries you will have a hard time getting contributions later. Beyond not optimizing your funding this can also create a sense of unfairness in the organizations that are funding your air program. This can also destabilize your funding efforts and cause some partners to stop funding your efforts.

When you consider air service funding and the level of benefit, you should start with the end program needs in mind. From the total funds you expect needing you should then find the beneficiaries and ask they fund to a level proportional to their benefit. While nailing these funding levels to the complete satisfaction of all partners is impossible if you can get this close you can reduce funding support as a level of contention in the air program organization.

Community Flights has developed over 35 best practices and guiding principles for communities looking to improve their air service. The above is just a small sample of a complete guidebook of best practice.

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Scott Stewart is the principle of Community Flights; an air service support, development and management company. Community Flights works with communities, organizations or businesses on leveraging the great economic asset that air service is for economic gain. Scott formed Community Flights in January 2013 to mobilize community support efforts and help clients, bridge the “air service understanding gap” with the airlines to create an airline and community win-win air service support and performance environment. You can find more info about Community Flights at www.communityflights.com. You can contact Scott Stewart at scott@communityflights.com .