Essential Air Service at Greenbrier/White Sulpher Springs/Lewisburg, West Virginia

Order 03-9-21
OST-03-15553 - EAS at Greenbrier/White Sulpher Springs/Lewisburg, WV
OST-03-16172 - Trans State - Intent to Terminate Service

Issued September 26, 2003 | Served October 1, 2003

Order

The Department vacates its decision in Order 2003-8-12 to allow Air Midwest to suspend service at Greenbrier/White Sulphur Springs/Lewisburg, West Virginia, as of September 28, and is instead (a) prohibits Air Midwest from suspending its service, (b) requests proposals, with or without subsidy requests, from carriers interested in providing replacement service, and (c) allows ASA and Trans States to suspend service at the community as of November 9, under the seasonal-service arrangement that those two carriers have with the community.

With Mesa's cooperation, we will vacate our decision in Order 2003-8-12 to allow Air Midwest to suspend service at Greenbrier/White Sulphur Springs/Lewisburg as of September 28. Instead, in accordance with 49 U.S.C. 41734(b), we will require Air Midwest to maintain service at the community by operating 14 nonstop round trips a week to Charlotte with 19-seat Beech 1900 aircraft. By virtue of our hold-in action here, Air Midwest's service will become eligible for subsidy as of September 28, the beginning of the hold-in period. We will also grant exemptions to ASA and Trans States to the extent necessary to allow them to suspend their services at Greenbrier/White Sulphur Springs/Lewisburg as of November 9, as originally planned.

By: Michael Reynolds