Order 99-11-7 - Crescent City, California

Order 99-11-7

Crescent City, California

Order 99-11-7 OST-97-2649	Issued November 10, 1999 Served November 15, 1999	Order Tentatively Selecting Carrier and Setting Final Rates	EAS at Crescent City, CA - Skywest Airlines d/b/a United Express
		Appendix A: EAS at Crescent City
		Appendix B: Historical Emplacements
		Service List

We will tentatively reselect SkyWest to provide essential air service at Crescent City, as detailed in Appendix A, for an additional two-year period, from January 1, 2000, through December 31, 2001, for an annual subsidy of $314,865. SkyWest has provided reliable essential air service at Crescent City since June 1998, and at other communities in California and Utah. The rate appears to be reasonable for the level of service to be provided and provides the carrier the flexibility to offer the community service to Sacramento and/or San Francisco in a mix that it deems most responsive to the community's transportation needs. The community supports SkyWest's decision to offer some service to San Francisco as an alternative to service to Sacramento. SkyWest has experimented with Crescent City's service by providing one of the three round trips a day nonstop to San Francisco and that service has generated more passengers on a per-flight basis than the Sacramento service, and is projected to require slightly less subsidy support than service to Sacramento. While we have costed SkyWest's proposal on the basis of providing nonstop San Francisco service, we will allow the carrier to offer service to either San Francisco or Sacramento.

By: Bradley Mims