Order 03-01-27

Order 03-01-27

Essential Air Service at Pelican and Elfin Cove, Alaska

Order 03-1-27
OST-02-11586

Issued January 28, 2003
Served January 31, 2003

Order Selecting Carrier and Establishing Subsidy Rate

Terminate Unsubsidized Service at Pelican and Elfin Cove, Alaska

Order 2003-1-27 selects Alaska Seaplane Service, LLC, to provide subsided essential air service at Elfin Cove and Pelican, Alaska, at an annual subsidy rate of $177,681 for a two-year term from February 1, 2003, through January 31, 2005. This rate also serves as a past-period rate retroactive to May 15, 2002, when we required the carrier to continue to serve these communities.

Alaska Seaplane was the only carrier to submit a proposal in response to our request. As a result of discussions with Department staff, the carrier has agreed to continue to provide service to the communities for a prospective two-year rate term, as follows: Pelican -- six round trips a week to Juneau, peak and off-peak; Elfin Cove -- one round trip a week and five flagstops a week to Juneau in the peak season and five flagstops a week to Juneau in the offpeak season. The service will be provided with 6-seat DeHavilland DHC-2 Beaver aircraft at an annual subsidy rate of $177,681.

By: Read Van de Water