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Order 2006-3-1 - EAS at Clarksburg/Fairmont, Morgantown and Parkersburg, WV - Approving Alternate Service Pattern
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Essential Air Service at Clarksburg/Fairmont, Morgantown, and Parkersburg, West Virginia Order 2006-3-1 Issued March 1, 2006 | Served March 6, 2006 Order Approving Alternate Service Pattern By Order 2005-9-8, September 14,2005, the Department selected RegionsAir, Inc. to provide essential air service at Parkersburg, Morgantown, and Clarksburg/Fairmont, West Virginia, for a two-year period by operating 18 round trips a week between Parkersburg and Cincinnati and 18 round trips per week over a Morgantown-Clarksburg-Cincinnati-Clarksburg-Morgantown routing. All service is to be with Saab 340A aircraft, and the subsidy is $1,051,333 annually. RegionsAir has not yet inaugurated service, but it will be replacing Air Midwest, Inc., a subsidiary of Mesa Air Group, Inc., at the three communities. RegionsAir requested that it be allowed to switch the communities’ hub from Cincinnati to Cleveland, in large part because it has obtained a code-share arrangement with Continental Airlines, which uses Cleveland as one of its three major hubs. RegionsAir intends to begin service at the three communities on or about May 1, 2006. In a letter received from airport officials at Parkersburg, Morgantown, and Clarksburg/Fairmont, all three communities fully support RegionsAir’s request to change the service destination to Cleveland, rather than Cincinnati as originally proposed. We will approve RegionsAir’s request, which meets the three conditions necessary for approval under authority assigned under 14 CFR 395.12(k)(3) of the Departments’ Regulations: (1) the alternate service pattern is equal to or greater than that determined to be essential; (2) the communities do not object to the alternate service pattern; and (3) the alternate service pattern will not increase RegionAir’s subsidy. By: Todd Homan
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