Order 2013-3-6

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. 

DOCKET DOT-OST-1997-2694

 

ORDER APPROVING ALTERNATE SERVICE PATTERN

Summary

By this Order, the Department is approving the request of Great Lakes Aviation, Ltd. (Great 

Lakes) to change 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 2011-3-4, March 1, 2011, the Department re-selected Great Lakes to provide 

subsidized EAS at Page for a two-year period through April 30, 2013. That Order established a 

subsidy rate of $1,559,206, for service consisting of three 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 Sky Harbor International Airport, with 

an option that one round trip 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 Lakes would like to accelerate the start date of its peak seasonal service to begin on 

March 10, 2013, using 19-passenger Beechcraft aircraft with no change in annual subsidy.
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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 Regulations: (1) 

the alternate service pattern is equal or greater than that determined to be essential; (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 1.25a(b) and re-delegated to the 

Director, Office of Aviation Analysis.

ACCORDINGLY,

1. We hereby approve the alternate service pattern requested by Great 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 Order on the Mayor and Airport Manager 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), must file such petitions within seven 

(7) days after the date of service of this Order.

This Order 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 Analysis

(SEAL)