Order 02-3-8

Order 02-3-8

Essential Air Service at Crescent City, California

Order 02-3-08 OST-97-2649	Issued March 11, 2002 Served March 14, 2002	Order Tentatively Reselecting Carrier	Essential Air Service at Crescent City, California
		Attachments: Map, EAS to be Provided
		Service List

We will tentatively reselect SkyWest to provide essential air service at Crescent City as detailed in Appendix C, for an additional two-year period. The level of service is the same as before and the level of subsidy is approximately the same.

In response to our inquiry SkyWest submitted and negotiated a renewal proposal for an additional two-year rate term. (See Appendix B to this order for a summary of the subsidy computation for SkyWest.) SkyWest's proposed service would be the same as the historical service level. It would provide a total of 18 one-stop round trips a week to either San Francisco or Sacramento. Historically, SkyWest has provided a daily nonstop to San Francisco and the remainder of the service to Sacramento over Eureka. This service pattern allows Crescent City passengers to disembark at Eureka and make connections on SkyWest to San Francisco or stay on the airplane and continue to Sacramento. Based on informal rate discussions held between the carrier and the Department staff, an annual subsidy rate of $333,717 was agreed upon.

As is our usual program practice, we will allow interested parties 20 days to object to our decision and/or to file competing proposals. If no timely objections or competing proposals are filed this order will automatically become final. We expect persons objecting to our tentative decision to support their objections with relevant and material facts. We will not entertain general, vague, or unsupported objections.

By: Read Van de Water