Order 2013

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Served: March 7, 2013



### UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY WASHINGTON, D.C.

Issued by the Department of Transportation

on the 7th day of March , 2013

Essential Air Service at

PAGE

, ARIZONA

Under 49 U.S.C. 41731 et seq

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### ORDER APPROVING ALTERNATE SERVICE PATTERN

Summary By this Order, the Department is approving the request of Great Lakes Aviation, Ltd. (Great Lakes) to chang e the start date of its peak summer service at Page, Arizona, from May 15, 2013

, to March 10, 2013. This service will operate through April 30, 2013, the end of Page’s current Essential Air Service (EAS) contract , and will require no additional Federal subsidy.

Background By Order 2011

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- selected Gr eat Lakes to provide

subsidized EAS at Page for a two

- year period through April 30, 2013. That Order establis hed a subsidy rate of $1,559,206 , for service consisting of th ree round trips a day, with four weekday round trips (reduced weekend service) during the peak season and two round trips a day during

the non

- peak season. Service from Page is to Phoenix S ky Harbor International Airport , with an option that one round tri p a day may be substituted to either Denver International Airport or Las Vegas McCarron International Airport.

Airline Proposal

As a result of a recent landslide that has closed a large section of a major highway in and out of Page, Great L ak es would li ke to accelerate the start date of its peak seasonal service to begin on

March 10, 2013, using 19

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Community Comments

The Honorable William Diak , Mayor of Page, submitted comments on February 27, 2013, stating “The City of Page is in agreement with Great Lakes Airlines’ accelerated schedule... ” adding that the revised schedule will benefit the community during the closure of US Highway

89.

Decision We will approve Great Lakes’ request, which meets the three conditions necessary for approval under authority assigned under 14 CFR Part 385.12 (k)(3) of the Department’s Regu l at ions: (1) the alternate service pattern is equal or greater than that determined to be essenti al; (2) the community does not object to the alternate service pattern; and (3) the alternate service pattern will not increase Great Lakes’ subsidy.

Because we are allowing the alternate service pattern and not requiring it, Great Lakes may revert to the original service pattern at any time.

This Order is issued under authority delegated in 49 CFR Part 1.25 a (b) and re

- delegated to the Director, Office of Aviation Analysis.

ACCORDINGLY,

1. We hereby approve the alternate service pattern requested by Grea t Lakes Aviation, Ltd., to start its peak seasonal service on March 10, 2013 , through April 30, 2013, the end date of Page’s current EAS contract ;

2. This docket will remain open until further order of the Department; and

3. The Department will serve a copy of this O rder on the Mayor and Airport M anager of Page

, and Great Lakes Aviation, Ltd.

Persons entitled to petition the Department for review of this order under the Department’s

Aviation Economic Regulations, 14 CFR Part 385.31 (a) , mus t file such petitions within seven (7 ) days aft er the date of service of this O rder.

This O rder will be effective immediately, and the filing of a petition for review shall not preclude its effectiveness.

By:

TODD M. HOMAN

Director Office of Aviation Analys is

(SEAL)