Order 00-2-18 - Mesa Air Group, United Express and Great Lakes Aviation

Order 00-2-18

Mesa Air Group, Inc. F/K/A Mesa Airlines, Inc. and d/b/a United Express and Great Lakes Aviation, Ltd.

Order 00-2-18 OST-95-934 OST-98-3496 OST-98-3497 OST-98-3498 OST-98-3502 OST-98-3503 OST-99-6590	Issued February 16, 2000 Served February 17, 2000	Order to Show Cause	90-Day Notice to Terminate at Silver City, New Mexico; Kingman, Arizona; Goodland, Kansas and Lamar, Colorado; Great Bend, Kansas; Hays, Kansas; Liberal, KS; Dodge City, Kansas; Garden City, Kansas; Salina, Kansas
		Appendix A: Map
		Appendix B: Annual Compensation
		Appendix C: To/From Denver Traffic
		Appendix D: EAS
		Appendix E: Service List

Order 2000-2-18 reselecting Great Lakes Aviation, Ltd. d/b/a United Express, to provide essential air service from the first seven communities listed above to Denver for the two-year period beginning October 1, 1999, but terminating subsidy for Great Lakes' service at Goodland, Great Bend and Lamar and allowing the carrier to suspend service at those three communities on or about April 1, 2000. The annual subsidy rates initially total $3,884,540 for service at all seven communities, and $2,686,218 for the remaining four. The order also provides for objections or competing proposals from other interested carriers. Finally, the order dismisses the 90-day notice of intent to suspend service at Salina, Kansas, the Great Lakes filed but subsequently withdrew.

By: Charles Hunnicutt