This is under the ax in the new budget cuts passed last month.
Do you have a link?
In reality though, a lot of these airports could not survive without some sort of subsidy.
Exactly, its pure pork.
My original source was a discussion on NPR last week (a little hard to link), but a quick Google search found this:
http://www.vicad.com/news/2011/aug/08/bc_airport_cuts_080711_148004/?business... not a great source but has a little info.