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Here’s the Ithaca Minute from 14850 Today for September 10th. Daily flights between the Ithaca Tompkins International Airport and Philadelphia International Airport ended this week, according to an announcement from airport officials. American Airlines is eliminating the regional flights, which have operated for decades, and adding a single daily flight to and from Charlotte to replace the previous weekly flight. The service change eliminates the last air service to the northeast region from Ithaca, which also once had daily flights to Newark, New York’s LaGuardia, Pittsburgh, and Boston. United switched its Ithaca to Newark service to Washington Dulles International Airport in 2018, and increased service last year, before dropping the service this year, temporarily, due to the Coronavirus pandemic. “There’s an opportunity to go back to three flights daily at Charlotte, Detroit, and Dulles,” airport director Mike Hall tells us. The Tompkins County Health Department and SPCA of Tompkins County are teaming up to offer a free rabies vaccination clinic on Saturday, September 19, at the TCAT bus garage at 737 Willow Avenue. If your pet is due for a rabies vaccination, or if you’re not sure, this is a good opportunity to get up to date at no cost. [...]