HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) -- It still has fewer flights and higher fares than larger airports, but that has been changing at Harrisburg International Airport, which also has something few other airports its size have: an airline's maintenance and crew base.

Since 2022, Piedmont Airlines, which flies the 50-seat ERJ-145s commonly seen at the airport ("ERJ" stands for "Embraer regional jet"), has based dozens of pilots and flight attendants at the airport, complementing a maintenance base that opened years earlier.

Piedmont -- which is headquartered in Salisbury, Maryland, and is a subsidiary of American Airlines -- also has a Harrisburg-based human resources team.

The Harrisburg presence means a lot of direct jobs and -- although this part is harder to quantify -- indirectly perhaps some fl

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