Essential Air Service at Quincy, Illinois

Order 2007-2-2
OST-2003-14492

Issued February 1, 2007 | Served February 6, 2007

Order Requesting Proposals

By this order, the Department is requesting proposals from carriers interested in providing essential air service at Quincy, Illinois, for the two-year period beginning August 1, 2007.

With respect to Quincy specifically, we expect proposals consisting of service, at a minimum, with two-pilot, twin-engine aircraft with at least 15 passenger seats, and offering 24 round trips a week to St. Louis or some other suitable hub. This level of service represents what the Department has been willing to subsidize to St. Louis in the absence of any service to Chicago. As we have already noted, the Quincy community recently began to receive service to Chicago and Kansas City in addition to St. Louis. Nonetheless, we are willing, for the present, to continue to subsidize a high level of service to St. Louis or some other hub in recognition of the joint state-and-local effort to build Quincy’s air service, and in view of the fact that Air Midwest’s service has just begun. We will therefore defer our consideration of the new service’s implications with respect to Quincy’s needs under the Department’s essential air service program until we can assess the results of the new service.

By: Todd Homan