Before the United States Department of Transportation 

Washington, DC 

March 25, 2010 

Essential Air Service at 

IRON MOUNTAIN/KINGSFORD, MICHIGAN 

IRONWOOD, MICHIGAN/ASHLAND, WISCONSIN 

MANISTEE/LUDINGTON, MICHIGAN 

ESCANABA, MICHIGAN 

under 49 U.S.C. 41731 et.seq. 

Docket DOT-OST-1999-5175 

Docket DOT-OST-1996-1266 

Docket DOT-OST-1996-1711 

Docket DOT-OST-2003-15128 

Tliis document contains Great Lakes Aviation, Ltd.'s response to Order Requesting 

Proposals 2010-2-18. 

Great Lakes Aviation, Ltd. is pleased to submit this proposal to provide essential air 

transportation at these points in Michigan and Wisconsin. 

Great Lakes' proposal should be considered as a "bundled" proposal (all or nothing) for all four 

communities. This proposal contemplates conveniently timed connecting services to our 

Milwaukee hub whereby, we will utilize our code-share agreement with Frontier Airlines. Local 

service will be marketed and priced utilizing the Great Lakes (ZK) brand and reservations 

system. Customer ticket purchasing will be available through the Great Lakes web site. 

Additionally, Great Lakes maintains interline ticketing and baggage agreements with the 

majority of the other carriers serving Milwaukee, including interline e-ticketing agreements with 

U.S. Ainways, Continental Airlines, Frontier Airlines and United Airlines. All of which will offer 

passengers traveling to and from these four communities supplemental access to the domestic 

and international air transportation system. 

The proposed service is submitted without any upline scheduling restrictions for Iron Mountain, 

Escanaba and Manistee. The proposal offers one-stop service for Ironwood. 

We contemplate the use of pressurized 19 seat Beechcraft 1900D airliner equipment. 

Questions and comments may be referred to: 

Michael O. Matthews 

Chief Financial Officer 

Great Lakes Aviation, Ltd. 

1022 Airport Parkway 

Cheyenne, WY 82001 

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Annual Compensation Requirements for Essential Air Service at 

Escanaba, Iron Mountain/Kingsford, Ironwood and Manistee, Michigan 

(at 97.5 percent completion) 

Departures: 

Block Hours: 

Revenue Passenger Miles: 

Available Seat Miles: 

Operating Revenues: 

Passenger: 

Other: 

IMT 17,500 psgrsat 

ESC 17,500 psgrsat 

MBL 6,500 psgrs at 

IWD 4,500 psgrs at 

(at 0.64% of passenger revenue) 

Total Operating Revenues: 

Operating Expenses: 

Direct: Aircraft and Hull Insurance 

Fuel and Oil 

Flying Operations 

Maintenance 

Total Direct Expenses: 

Total Inclirect Expenses: 

Total Operating Expenses: 

Operating Loss 

Profit Element (5.0% of Total Operating Expenses) 

Annual Compensation Requirement: 

$95.25 

$95.25 

$79.39 

$107.14 

$1,666,875 

$1,666,875 

$516,035 

$482,130 

$27,724 

$1,354,840 

$2,864,596 

$909,069 

$1,561,114 

6,114 

5,402 

8,885,500 

19,052,991 

$4,359,639 

$6,689,619 

$3,625,026 

$10,314,645 

($5,955,006) 

$515,732 

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