Essential Air Service at Chisana and Healy Lake, Alaska

Order 2008-2-25
OST-1999-6244 - Chisana
OST-1998-3546 - Healy Lake

Issued February 20, 2008 | Served February 25, 2008

Order Requesting Proposals

By this order, the Department is requesting proposals from carriers interested in providing essential air service at Chisana and/or Healy Lake, Alaska, for a new two-year period, with or without subsidy, beginning June 1, 2008.

By Order 2006-4-11, April 7, 2006, the Department selected 40-Mile Air, Ltd., to provide EAS at Healy Lake for the two-year period through May 31, 2008. That order established an annual subsidy rate of $71,105, for service consisting of two nonstop round trips each week to Fairbanks with 5-seat Cessna 206 or 207 aircraft.

By Order 2006-6-29, June 23, 2006, the Department selected 40-Mile Air to provide EAS at Chisana for the two-year period through June 30, 2008. That order established an annual subsidy rate of $75,743, for service consisting of two nonstop round trips each week to Tok with Cessna 185 (3 seats) or Cessna 206/207 (4 seats) aircraft.

We request proposals for two nonstop round trips a week to between Chisana and Tok, and between Healy Lake and Fairbanks, with small aircraft (10 seats or less).

By: Todd Homan