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From: Tim Rooney [tdrooney@wrangell.com] 

Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 2:42 PM 

To: LaHood, Ray (OST) 

Cc: Kurland, Susan (OST); Devany, Dennis (OST); Sean.Parnell@alaska.gov; 

Marc.Luiken@alaska.gov-commissioner; 'Christie Jamieson'; Assemblyman Dave Jack; 

Assemblyman Michael Symons ; 'Assemblywoman McCloskey'; 'Assemblywoman Wilson'; 

Mayor Maxand 

Attachments: Continuation of Essential Air Service - Southeast Alaska.pdf 

Honorable Secretary LaHood, 

Attached is a letter for support from the City and Borough of Wrangell for the Continuation of Essential Air Service 

provided by Alaska Airlines to our community and Southeast Alaska. 

If you have any questions, or if I can be of additional service to you, please do not hesitate to contact me at 907.874-

2381 or via email at tdroonev@wranEell.com. 

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CITY AND BOROUGH OF WRANGELL 

INCORPORATED MAY 30, 2008 

P.O. BOX 531 (907)-B74-23Bl 

Wrangell, AK 99929 FAX (907)-874-3952 

January 17, 2011 

The Honorable Ray LaHood, Secretary 

US Department of Transportation 

1200 New Jersey Avenue, S.E. 

Washington, DC 20590 

RE: Continuation of Alaska Airlines' Essential Air Service at Cordova. Gustavas. Petersburg. 

Wrangell. and Yakutat. Alaska Docket OST-1998-4899 

Dear Secretary LaHood, 

This letter is to express strong support for the selection of Alaska Airlines to continue to provide 

essential air service to our community - Wrangell, AK. 

Alaska Airlines' current pattern of service - utilizing jet aircraft - meets crucial needs that would 

be difficult, if not impossible, to meet with any other type of service or aircraft type. 

Alaska Airlines' service connects Southeast Alaska passengers to one or more major 

communities of interest, with single phase semce Xo Anchorage, Jvn^au, Ketchikan, or Seattle. 

From these hubs, our community can access the airline's extensive route system and benefit 

from its marketing relationships with other carriers. The 737-400 combination ("combi") 

passenger and cargo aircraft, which Alaska Airlines proposes to continue using on this route, 

provides freight, mail, and cargo capacity that a non-jet carrier simply cannot provide. Further, 

the 737-400 combi aircraft is equipped with Required Navigation performance Technology 

precision technology, which enables the airline to reliably access the airport during inclement 

weather, thus reducing diversions and cancellations and, in turn, enabling people and products 

to dependably reach the community. In sum, Alaska's jet service is critical to the economic well 

being of not only our community, but the entire region. 

For these reasons, we respectfully urge the Department of Transportation to select Alaska 

Airlines to continue to provide essential air service to Southeast Alaska, as the airline has 

successfully done for more than thirty years. 

Sincerely, 

Timothy D. 

Borough Ma 

Cc: Ms. Susan Kurland, Assistant Secretary for Aviation and International Affairs 

Mr. Dennis DeVany, Chief, EAS and Domestic Analysis 

The Honorable Sean Parnell, Governor, State of Alaska 

Mr. Mark A. Luiken, Commissioner, Alaska Department of Transportation and Public 

Facilities 

Mayor and Borough Assembly, City and Borough of Wrangell