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- PRESQUE AERO DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION 

INTREPID INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES 

Essential Air Service Bid 

for ALPENA, MICHIGAN 

Docket: DOT-OST-2009-0300 

submitted December, 2011 

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Thank you once again for the opportunity to bid on the requested essential air service for 

your community. As you probably recall from the previous submission to the initial 

Request for Proposals, we had made a bid to provide service four days a week, using a 

19 seat aircraft. One other airline had bid and they had also proposed utilizing a 19 seat 

aircraft, only they offered service 18 times a week with service to Cleveland. Both of our 

bids must have proven inadequate to the service you had hoped for, as another RFP was 

circulated to try to find a suitable solution for your community. 

Now, with time to analyze both of the prospective bids and your community comments, 

I hope you find our current proposal to be exactly what you are looking for. 

The service we propose to deliver would still utilize a Jetstream 19 seat turbo-prop 

aircraft which has an on board lavatory. In so much as our belief that this particular 

aircraft would service your area and be well suited to meet both the weather conditions 

and field characteristics quite handily. However, we have recalculated your desired for 

frequency of service and are confident that we can deliver accommodations to 

destinations that will connect Alpena with far flung destinations around the globe. 

We respectfully submit our plan to include service five days a week (Monday- Friday), 

with the flight originating in Alpena to Lansing, to Grand Rapids, to Alpena, to Grand 

Rapids, to Lansing, to Alpena. Thereby, having 2 departures per day and 2 arrivals per 

day, for a total of 20 flights per week. 

It should also be noted that both Grand Rapids and Lansing have their own unique 

appeal to travelers as destinations of entertainment, industry, financial and government, 

as well as, offer a variety of convention and meeting space options. And, both cities 

offer very in-expensive, yet noteworthy public transportation systems connecting the 

airports directly to the central business districts and beyond. 

In addition, both offer connections to an array of connection variations to chose from, 

for instance; in Grand Rapids passengers could connect to the United/Continental, 

Frontier/Republic, Air Canada, Delta, Allegiant, American or, the Air Tran/Southwest 

systems. 

Where Lansing connections include; Sun Country, Delta and United Express. 

The provisional request for this service would be for $3,024,000. usd per year. For a 

period not to exceed 2 years. 

We would also like you to consider the fact that we hope to keep our fare to be 

comparable to that of taking the bus, or, at around under $50. per leg, as the full, walkup fare. 
At this point of our bid we would like to take exception to several notions regarding our 

service, as suggested in the reply to our previous EAS proposal. 

First, we are, (PADF) a non profit organization, dedicate to the advocacy of air travel. 

And, although we are not operating under the authority as an FAA/DOT certified air 

carrier, our organization would be under contract to a fully authorized air carrier, who is 

subject to all safety, staffing, insurance and maintenance stipulations, subject to any 

other certified air carrier, to provide the aforementioned service. And, that we would 

operate under the rules of a 380 operation. Also, that under these rules and regulations, 

no funds can be transferred until service is rendered for a particular flight. Our basic 

business structure would be that of an employee stock ownership plan, (ESOP). 

Second, we have connected with the local FBO, Aviation Express/Brad Shriner to 

provide fuel in Alpena, so any savings, as prices may fluctuate during the course of this 

contract, could be passed along directly to the passengers, via reduced fares. 

Thirdly, although we do not have any Code Share Agreements in place with other 

airlines, one of the divisions of our corporate structure is a certified VAX Travel Agency, 

so we do not anticipate any major difficulties for our passengers to be given expedited 

connection assistance at the airports, to speed them on to any subsequent carrier and 

make it as seem less as possible to make it on to their next plane. This may hold a 

particular and humorous interest to many of you, who may have started their own 

businesses and come to realize the difficulties associated with the saying, "you can't get 

on the track without a track record and you can't get a track record without getting on the 

track". 

Fourth, we would be employing local workers at each of our destination cities, who 

could provide local insight to passengers wishing to know more about where they have 

just landed. 

And finally, we are the only Michigan vendor bidding on this contract and, as such, we 

have made arrangements to keep as much of the discretionary budget at play, right here 

in the State, with advertising allotments for Charter and Comcast Cable, to advertise in 

and for the communities we serve. 

This concludes our bid for the Alpena Essential Air Service Request for Proposals. 

RickEyk 

Presque Aero Development Foundation I Intrepid International Airlines 

1356 Vineland Ct. S.E. Grand Rapids, Michigan 

49508 

phone: 616-459-3696 email: rick-eyk@sbcglobal.net