## BEFORE THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY WASHINGTON, D.C.
July 10,2014 Essential Air Service RAMPART, ALASKA DocketDOT-OST 

### -2008-0201 Under 49 U.S.C. 41731 et seq.



### Proposal to Provide Essential Air Service at Rampart, Alaska DOT-OST-2008- 0201

Tatonduk Outfitters Limited (dba Everts Air Alaska) is energized to submit this proposal to provide weekly reserved Essential Air Service to Rampmi, Alaska commencingNovember 1, 2014. Everts Air Alaska's safetyrecord is umnatched for Fairbanks flight operators. The flights to Rampmi will be in the Pilatus PC-12 and the Cessna Caravan which are modern-day turbine powered aircraft. Theflight distance to Rampart, from Fairbanks, is 82 nautical miles. Eve11s Air Alaska'sproposal is to fly 2 scheduled nonstop flights each week and 104 flights per year. Theproposed direct nonstop service will be a Fairbanks-Rampart-Fairbanks line only. Boththe Pilatus and the Caravan are capable oftranspmiing between 2000-2800 pounds ofmail, freight and/or 9 passengers perflight. Please visit Eve11s Air Alaska's web site at www.evertsair.com to exmnine Pilatus and Caravan aircraft specific information and photos. (Select 

### 'Aircraft' in the headerpart ofthe page and scroll down to find the Pilatus or Caravan infmmation.) There is no publicroad transportation to the village ofRampart nor does the 3500 foot runway have a FAA certified instrument approach. The aircraftproposed for this contract are ce11ified for IFRflight (instrument flight rules) and can depart Fairbanks when the weather is inclement. Being able to utilize this IFR aircraft option will allow flights out ofFairbanks inreduced weather conditions and thus not intenuptthe flight schedule when the weather in Rampart is VFR.Proposed Schedule

• 2 flights per week and 1 04 flights per year • Depending on community demand, flights will be either a Monday/Tuesday and a Thursday/Friday weekly schedule • I04 flights peryear inthe Pilatus PC-12 or the Cessna Caravan 208B • Fairbanks departure at !O:OOam arrive Rampart at !0:30am • Rampmt depmture at 1 0:40am anive Fairbanks at 11:1Oam

Projected Revenue Projected revenue has been calculated using analysis ofvarious data including DOTnumbers, speaking with community members, and internal company numbers. Our calculated trend numbers suggests a flattening out for passengertravel and maybe a small drop in mail and freight weights. EAAplans to reduce the cunent freight rate and ticket pricehoping that the decrease will influence more freight shipments andpassengertravel. For this reason, we use the following numbers for projected traffic.

FAIRBANKS-RAMPART-FAIRBANKS



# • • • • • • • 250 projected FAI-RMP-FAIpassengersperyear Passenger fares per $95.00 one-way ticket Minus the Federal Transp01tationTax Projected FAI-RMP-FAI mail peryear 14,000pounds CtuTent bush mail rate @ $1.04 x 11,000 lbs Projected FAI-RMP-FAI freight peryear 6000 pounds Freightrate @ $.60 cents a pound x 6000 lbs $23,750.00 -$2209.30 $11,440.00

$3600.00 Projected Revenue peryear for passengers, mail, & freight: $36,580.70Hourly Pilatus/Caravan Operating Costs

Pilot Aircraft Fuel & Oil Other Maintenance Total Direct
Total Expenses:
Subsidy Request )> Total Annual Operating Costs )> ProfitElement @ 10% )> Total Economic Cost Projected Revenue PerHour

$85.00 $270.00 $200.00 $150.00 $705.00
$705.00

Yearly Subsidy required at 100% completion Extended Costs 12 months block 124.8 hours $10,608.00 $33,696.00 $24,960.00 $18,720.00 $87,984.00 $87,984.00

$87,984.00

$8798.40 $96,782.40 $36,580.70 

### $60,201.70

Everts Air Alaska ce1iifies that operations are conducted in compliance with Depmiment regulations regarding drug-free workplaces, nondiscrimination and all regulations goveming lobbying activities. Eve1is Air Alaska will present official documents verifying confmmity on request.

## Sincer~~**~** Tatonduk Outfitters

# L~ DbaEverts AirAlaska 5525 Airport Industrial Rd. Fairbanks, AK 99709 KenLeary Director ofOperations Everts AirAlaska kleary@eve1isair.com 907-450-2353