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Todd House, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of YourJet, LLC, is a partner in Dupont Anesthesia, PSC, and manages an anesthesia consulting company that provides services to underserved rural areas in six states.

Todd took his first flying lesson at age 13 at the Homestead Airport in Homestead, Florida unbeknownst to his mom. He holds single and multi-engine pilot certificates with instrument rating and owns a Beech Baron, which he uses for leisure, business, and Angel Flight Charity Airlift.

During his 13 years of military service (a family tradition dating back to the US Civil War) in the U.S. Navy and U.S Air Force, he earned his designation as a Naval Flight Surgeon and Air Force Flight Surgeon. His flying experience includes Bell Jet Ranger and CH-46 helicopters, the F-18D “Hornet” all weather night attack fighter, KC-10, and C-130. Read More »

YourJet Team,

For this entry I thought that I would link an article that I recently read in USA Today on 12/30/2007. On the surface the issue it raises, in this case federal government subsidies to incentivize airlines to continue to provide service to rural communities, has been around since airline deregulation in the late 1970’s.

The subsidy program enacted by congress is administered by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) as the Essential Air Service program. But, as Andrew Steinberg, the DOT’s assistant secretary of aviation and international affairs, stated in the article, the subsidies were supposed to be temporary until “sustainable solutions” were realized.

Incredibly, 30 years later the program not only still exists but is expanding as the legacy airlines retreat to lucrative coast to coast and international routes and, in so doing, sever the critical air connectivit ... Read More »