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Order 2005-11-9 - EAS at Manhattan and Salina, KS - Requesting Proposals
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Essential Air Service at Manhattan and Salina, Kansas Order 2005-11-9 Issued November 7, 2005 | Served November 10, 2005 By this order, the Department is requesting proposals from carriers interested in providing essential air service at Manhattan and Salina, Kansas, for the two-year period beginning March 1, 2006. Manhattan and Salina were served without subsidy for a number of years until Air Midwest, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mesa Air Group, Inc., d/b/a US Airways Express filed 90-day notices to suspend service at both communities. In response to those 90-day notices, the Department issued Order 2001-12-26 and Order 2002-3-3, prohibiting the carrier from suspending service at Sauna and Manhattan, respectively, and requesting proposals for replacement service. By Order 2004-2-14, Air Midwest was selected for the two-year period through February 28, 2006, at Manhattan and Salina at a combined annual subsidy rate of $721,605 to provide three round trips each weekday and weekend (18 round trips per week) to Kansas City using 19-seat Beech 1900-D turboprop aircraft over a Salina Manhattan -Kansas City routing. Air Midwest filed to suspend service at Salina on January 23, 2002, and at Manhattan on June 30, 2003. As the end of the current rate term approaches, we are here requesting proposals from carriers interested in providing service at Manhattan and Sauna, with or without subsidy, for the two-year period beginning March 1, 2006. Carriers should file their proposals within 30 clays of the date of service of this order. At the end of that period, our staff will docket proposals, thereby making them public, and direct each carrier to serve a copy of its proposal on the civic parties and other applicants. Shortly afterwards, we will provide a summary of the proposals to the communities and ask them to submit their final comments. We will give full consideration to all proposals that are timely filed. By: Todd Homan
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