U.S. Department of 

Transportation 

Office of the Secretary 

of Transportation 

. Authorizing EAS Payments for Cancelled Flights 

Subject: Resulting from Airport Closures 

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From: EAS & Domestic Analysis, X-53 

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Memorandum 

Date: December 18,2012 

Reply to A.J. Muldoon, X-53 

Attn. of: X-61058 

On September 22, 2012, Chadron Municipal Airport (Chadron, NE) closed to air traffic for nine 

days in order to perform airfield construction, reopening to air traffic on October 1, 2012. 

Additionally, Grand County Airport (Moab, UT) was closed to air traffic on October 4, 2012 as a 

result of a lack of Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting (ARFF) staff Great Lakes Aviation, Ltd. 

(Great Lakes) provides subsidized Essential Air Service at both of these communities. As a 

result of these closures, their regularly scheduled subsidized flights could not be operated. 

It has been our policy, on a case-by-case basis, to pay a subsidized carrier its usual subsidy rate 

when airports have been closed on the grounds that the circumstances are beyond the carrier's 

control and it would realize only minimal cost savings while losing all revenue. (E.g. the carrier 

would save on fuel and a portion of maintenance, but would be unable to return aircraft to lessors 

or lay off personnel.) Consistent with that precedent, we request that you compensate Great 

Lakes for flights that could not be operated at the following airports and dates: 

• Chadron, NE (CDR)- September 22, 2012, through September 30, 2012 

• Moab, UT (CNY)- October 4, 2012 

Attachments 

Cc: 

Great Lakes 
Muldoon, Albert (OST) 

·Subject: CDR Airport closure dates 

From: Chadron Manager [mailto:cdrmgr@flygreatlakes.com] 

Sent: Friday, November 30, 2012 2:11PM 

To: 'Larry Graff' 

Subject: FW: [PossibleSpam] Airport closure dates 

Hello Larry, 

If you need any more from Milo please let me know. 

Mark R Jensen 

Station Manager 

90 Airport Rd. 

Chadron, NE 69337 

308.432.5717 

cdrmgr@flygreatlakes. com 

From: Milo Rust [mailto:publicworks@chadron-nebraska.com] 

Sent: Friday, November 30, 2012 1:55 PM 

To: Mark Jensen 

Subject: [PossibleSpam] Airport closure dates 

Mark Jensen 

The City of Chadron Municipal Airport was close for construction on all runways for Nine 

days. This full closure of the Airport started September 22, 2012 to September 30, 2012. We 

reopened the airport for traffic on October 1, 2012. A copy of the email out lining the closures and 

times lines were sent to Mr Heying for your company by email on September 7, 2012 from Curtis 

Christianson of Olsson and Associates. If you need any other information please let me know. 

Milo Rust 

Public Works Director 

City of Chadron 

308-432-0505 

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Muldoon, Albert (OST) 

Subject: Moab 

From: Kelly L Braun [mailto:kbraun@grandcountyutah.net] 

Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 9:06 AM 

To: jirish@flygreatlakes.com 

Subject: October 4th 

Justin, 

Hello. 'Please accept this email as notification that on October 4th, 2012 there was no ARFF available at CNY. In May I 

contacted Eddie in dispatch to make sure that flights 7177/7176 were canceled for October 4th, 2012, because the entire 

ARFF staff would be attending their annual live fire training in SLC. We chose the October date specifically because 

there were no passengers listed for those flights. 

If you have any other questions please contact me. 

Thank you, 

KELLY BRAUN 

Grand County Airport Manager 

12B E. Center St. 

J\l.oab UT 84B3Z 

(435) 2B9-484~J office 

(435) 25~1-4860 fax 

(720) 297-0896 cell 

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