Essential Air Service at Alitak, Amook Bay, Kitoi Bay, Moser Bay, Olga Bay, Port Bailey, Port Williams, Seal Bay, Uganik, West Point and Zachar Bay and Karluk, Alaska

Order 2007-2-18
OST-2000-6945 - Eleven Kodiak Island Communities
OST-2004-19342 - EAS at Karluk, AK

Issued and Served February 16, 2007

Order Requesting Proposals - Bookmarked

By this order, the Department is requesting proposals from carriers interested in providing essential air service at eleven Kodiak Island communities: Alitak, Amook Bay, Kitoi Bay. Moser Bay, Olga Bay. Port Bailey, Port Williams, Seal Bay, Uganik, West Point, and Zachar Bay, Alaska, for a new two-year period beginning May 1, 2007, with or without subsidy. We are terminating our subsidy support for Karluk, Alaska, effective May 31,2007, when the subsidy rate set by Order 2005-3-30 expires. Filially, we are vacating Order 2007-1-5, which tentatively discontinued subsidy support for Port Bailey and Zacliar Bay, Alaska, and including them in the eleven communities for which we are requesting proposals.

We note that there are two airports at Kodiak - the main landing strip and a downtown seaplane base. Carriers should make clear which airport they are proposing service to, or whether they would change the airport in response to community comment.

Appendix B shows the historical traffic at the Kodiak eleven. It also shows the level of service that would be required to accommodate that traffic given seasonality of demand and the directional imbalance of freight and mail, for the last several years, as well as a fifty percent load factor and small (5-seat) aircraft. Proposals should match capacity with demand in a reasonable manner, but we are suggesting a total of two round trips per week in an 18-week peak period and one round trip per week during the rest of the year, given the historical service pattern of intermediate stops. We note that the Kodiak eleven have no landing strips, and seaplane service is required.

By: Andrew Steinberg