EAS at Eastern Oregon Regional Airport

OST-04-16995

December 17, 2004

Re: Request for Change in Hub Designation

Effective February 8, 2004, Horizon Air formally requests that the hub designation for the Eastern Oregon Regional Airport (PDT) be changed as follows: PDX (1) SEA (1). All other EAS designations for this route should remain the same. The current Essential Air Service determination at PDT calls for non-stop or one-stop service to Portland, Oregon, with two frequencies per day Monday-Friday, and a total of two flights over Saturday and Sunday. Seat requirements for each service day are 62 seats using aircraft with 14 seats or smaller. With aircraft of 15 seats or more, the requirement is for 48 seats per service day.

Horizon proposes to offer three daily flights each way from Pendleton to Seattle, two that will make a brief stop in Walla Walla each way and a third that will be nonstop in each direction. The new routing will replace the current schedule of three daily flights to Portland, some of which make a stop in Pasco each way. As with the current Pendleton‑Portland service, we are not requesting EAS subsidy on this new route.

By: Horizon, Patrick Zachieja