As I settled into my seat on my United Express flight from Houston’s George H.W. Bush Intercontinental Airport to the Hattiesburg-Laurel Regional Airport in southern Mississippi, I thought about some of the ways this flight was different from most of the others at the airport—a large hub for United Airlines. The biggest one is that I knew that the federal government—and by extension U.S. taxpayers—had paid some $6.8 million on an annual basis to…
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