Payments for Essential Air Services
Payments for Essential Air Services recorded $625.9 million of federal assistance obligations under this Assistance Listing in fiscal year 2026, which ranks 147 of 1,888 assistance programs with a figure in FY2026.
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Identifiers
- Assistance Listing
- 20.901
The record
| Obligated · FY2026Assistance only — grants, loans, direct payments and insurance. Contracts carry no Assistance Listing number and are not in this figure. | $625,920,528USD |
|---|---|
| Rank among assistance programs · FY2026 | 147 of 1,888by obligations |
| Share of all assistance programs · FY2026Of $4.1 trillion, which is what every assistance program the publisher reported obligated in FY2026 — not the federal total, which is larger. | 0.0%percent |
By fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Obligated |
|---|---|
| FY2022 | $382,859,220 |
| FY2023 | $492,122,277 |
| FY2024 | $524,391,462 |
| FY2025 | $625,519,412 |
| FY2026 | $625,920,528 |
The publisher holds five fiscal years of this breakdown. A year missing from this table is a year this assistance program was not reported in, not a year of no spending.
The nearest ranks
| Rank | assistance program | Obligated |
|---|---|---|
| 144 | Global AIDS | $637,655,634 |
| 145 | Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) | $634,057,000 |
| 146 | National Highway Freight Program (NHFP) | $626,412,729 |
| 148 | Fédération Internationale de Football Association World Cup Grant Program | $625,000,000 |
| 149 | ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY for HEALTH (ARPA-H) | $620,441,263 |
| 150 | Pension to Veterans Surviving Spouses, and Children | $619,089,390 |
What this data cannot show
- The fiscal year is not over. These are obligations recorded so far, and a figure here is not comparable with a full year.
- An obligation is a binding commitment to pay, not money paid. Outlays are reported separately and the two are never equal in the same year.
- Assistance only — grants, loans, direct payments and insurance. Contracts carry no Assistance Listing number and are not in this figure.
- This page is built from the database rather than from the committed extract, so it covers every assistance program the publisher reported and not only the largest hundred the ranking names. Both come from the same ingest on the date above.
Related
Sources
- USAspending API v2 — dimension aggregations — U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service · U.S. Government work, public domain (17 U.S.C. 105) · retrieved September 19, 2026
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