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Kyle Long <Kyle@pahlkelawgroup.com> 

Monday, November 03, 2014 9:11 PM 

Martin, Michael (OST) 

Support for Aerodynamics EAS bid 

I am writing you today to voice my support for Aerodynamics, Inc. to service the route between DEN and BFF. I have 

been practicing in Western Nebraska for more than ten years. I have personally experienced the problems that Great 

Lakes has caused people travelling to and from our community. Given the unreliable nature of this carrier our firm has 

not flown out of Scottsbluff for business during the past three years. Instead when our attorneys must travel we commit 

to six hours of driving just to get to an airport. Even when Great Lakes has managed to get flights in and out of 

Scottsbluff, they often have been scheduled in such a way that it is impossible to make a connection in Denver in an 

efficient manner. Typically, if you wanted to arrive in Scottsbluff on the last flight you would usually have to leave you 

departure city on a mid-morning flight. 

Thank you, 

Kyle Long 

Kyle J. Long 

The Robert Pahlke Law Group 

2425 Circle Drive, Suite 200 

Scottsbluff, Nebraska 69361 

(308) 633-4444 

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Connie Frank <connie@frankimplement.com> 

Monday, November 03, 2014 8:16 PM 

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Regional west airport 

I want to express my support to regional west airport. This airport is an integral part to the Scottsbluff Gering 

community. Travel is very assesible to our community by business representatives politicians, service people, family and 

friends. Denver airport is 3 1/2 hours from Scottsbluff. Driving to Denver and parking which has become very expensive, 

hotels are all a hassle. I would much rather support my community and keep our airport up and running. Thank you, 

Connie Frank 

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Linda Dedic <linda@c21hometeam.net> 

Monday, November 03, 2014 4:48 PM 

Martin, Michael (OST) 

support for airport 

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In my opinion this is the single most important issue to our community. In order to grow and survive we must 

have a dependable airport. 

Please, support Western Nebraska Regional Airport. 

Linda Dedic 

Century 21 Home Team Realty 

linda@c21 hometeam.net 

308-631-9696 cell 

308-632-5349 Fax 

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Dear Mr. Martin, 

Terry Rajewich <rajewich@gmail.com> 

Monday, November 03, 2014 4:33 PM 

Martin, Michael (OST) 

Essential Air service 

I'm writing this email in support of Essential Air service for the Scottsbluff "Western Nebraska Regional 

airport". Having the need to travel with my job, I prefer to fly out of Scottsbluff to avoid the long trek back 

home once arriving in Denver. 

Having access to such a service here in Scottsbluff is crucial to businesses coming to Western Nebraska. When 

working with Economic Development projects, this remains a top priority for prospects. Recruitment hinges on 

having access to "quality airline service", "on-time, every-time flights" and priced to be beneficial to use the 

service once available. 

Recently, Western Nebraska Regional Airport held a special board meeting to discuss the Essential Air Service 

bid. Aerodynamics Inc. (ADI) is the recommendation that will be sent to the US Dept. of Transportation. 

I support this recommendation for Western Nebraska consumers. 

Sincerely, 

Terrt:J R.C!jewtcV! 

Terry 

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Monday, November 03, 2014 1:01 PM 

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Western Nebraska Regional Airport Essential Air se-rVice ~upp~rt1ot~erodynamics, Inc. 

(ADI) 

Dear Mr. Martin: 

I am writing in support of Aerodynamics, Inc. (ADI) bid for Essential Air Service at the Western Nebraska 

Regional Airport located in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. As a community located in Western Nebraska, the air 

service is critical to our community for economic support and continued growth of our community. Essential 

Air Service provides all of us the necessary tool to travel to our destination and transact business which leads to 

continual growth to our community. Having a reliable service such as ADI will enhance our growth and sustain 

our community business and community leaders by reaching out to others along with transacting business on a 

day to day basis. Presently, my Partner and I travel numerous times throughout the year and have been forced 

to drive to Denver to make connections with our flights and to return to Scottsbluff/Gering. The travel time by 

car is approximately 3 hours one way to the Denver International Airport (DIA). Again with return flights and 

travel back we spend another 3 hours traveling. Having a reliable air transportation would significantly increase 

our productivity. This does not included numerous times we have not been able get the connection back to 

Scottsbluff and was forced to rent a vehicle to return home to meet our schedule. 

Essential Air Service is the life blood to the economic community. This serves many purposes up and beyond 

economic development. 

I therefore respectfully request approval of Aerodynamics, Inc. (ADI) bid be approved by the Department of 

Transportation. 

Thank you. 

Varre(( 

Darrell G. Eskam C.P.A., C.V.A., M.A.F.F. 

deskam@eskamcpas.com 

Eskam & Eskam Certified Public Accountants, 

A Professional Corporation 

1555 11th Street 

Post Office Box 518 

Gering, Nebraska 69341-0518 

Telephone: 308-436-3473 

FAX: 308-436-2118 

Cell: 308-631-1155 

Website: www.eskamcpas.com 

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Leigh Thompson <calamitysjanego@yahoo.com> 

Monday, November 03, 2014 5:51 PM 

Martin, Michael (OST) 

Airport 

I firmly believe part of the success of this community is because of our LOCAL airport. Please support it and 

allow us to keep offering service with local flights. I use our airport when ever I travel. Thank you for your 

time! 

Leigh Thompson 

Century 21 Home Team Realty 

1208 Ave I 

P.O. Box 2425 

Scottsbluff, NE 69361 

308-632-7141 ofc 

308-632-5349 fax 

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Jacobs, Dawn [BH02193] <Dawn.Jacobs@goldenliying.corl)> -~ _ .... 

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Mr. Michael F. Martin 

lJS Dept. ofTransportation 

1200 New Jersey A venue SE 

Washington, DC 20590 

Dear Mr. Martin; 

Airodynamics 

Scottsbluff is in need of a Hight that will increase the ability to connect with the Denver Airport without having 

to make a 3 hour drive and then add 2 hours at the airpmi. It is hard on businesses to lose employees related to 

the need for transport to the airport. In addition for a person like myself who travels on business events it would 

lesson my time away from my business and be more cost affective. 

Please consider Airodynamics Inc (ADI). as the carrier to provide services between Scottsbluff, NE and Denver, 

CO. The 50 passenger plane is a needed mode oftransportation f()r those who may need Medical 

appointments and cant really travel in poor weather or drive and business transport for those vvho could be more 

productive. I ask that you approve the recommendation H)l' the ADI service as outlined by the \rVestem 

Nebraska Regional Airport Board of Directors. 

Sincerely, 

Dawn Laws Jacobs, MBA, LNHA 

308-635-2019 

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Patricia Martin < pmartin2@unl.edu > 

Monday, November 03, 2014 3:58 PM 

Martin, Michael (OST) .: .. =;< Air Service for Scottsbluff, Nebraska 

Dear Mr. Martin- I am writing to you in support of air service for Scottsbluff, Nebraska. The Panhandle Research and 

Extension Center faculty and educators do an extensive amount of traveling during the year throughout the United 

States and numerous foreign countries but also to Lincoln, Nebraska where the main campus for UNL is located. The 

closest hub is DIA in Denver, Colorado and our employees have had to travel by car the majority of the time, to catch 

their flights at DIA because Great Lakes, the current carrier, is having difficulty in keeping flights running. 

Air service for our area is vital to the growing economic climate of our area but also, in our case, to bring in researchers 

from around the world who come to collaborate with us. We also have numerous graduate students from other 

countries who spend their summers here working. Aside from the working aspect, our community has many retirees 

who travel to see family and would rather fly than drive. 

I appreciate this opportunity to write to you and look forward to hearing what your final decision will be. 

Thank you. 

Pat Martin 

Panhandle Res. & Ext. Center 

4502 Ave. I 

Scottsbluff, NE 69361 

308-632-1276 

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Darrell Lewis < DLewis@bytescomputer.com> 

Monday, November 03, 2014 4:08 PM 

Martin, Michael (OST) 

Support for Air Service 

Darrell Lewis.vcf 

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This email is being sent to you in support for, Aerodynamics Inc. (ADI) for our Essential Air Service in Scottsbluff, NE, 

(KBFF). Please review the documentation we have sent and find favorably for this firm ..... doing so will insure the 

continued economic development for our citizens & communities of the Panhandle of Nebraska. 

Thank You 

Darrell Lewis 

Darrell Lewis 

Bytes Computer & Network Solutions 

President 

1712 Avenue B 

Scottsbluff, NE 69361 

www.bytescomputer.com 

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Maren Chaloupka <MLC@chhsclaw.net> 

Monday, November 03, 2014 3:49 PM 

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Western Nebraska Regional Airport 

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Mr. Martin, my name is Maren Lynn Chaloupka. I am an attorney whose practice is based out of Scottsbluff, Nebraska, 

but who must travel frequently to other states for work. I would estimate that I am in an airplane at least monthly, and 

usually more often than that. At times, I also need to bring professionals to Scottsbluff via air travel. 

Western Nebraska Regional Airport is about a three-hour drive from Denver. Local residents do not fly to Denver as 

their final destination-- if Denver is their final destination, they drive. The only reason to fly to Denver is to connect 

with flights from DIA to other destinations. This had been my pattern until about two years ago, when the regional 

carrier serving Western Nebraska Regional Airport took a serious nosedive in reliability, causing me to miss several 

connecting flights in a row. 

The last two years of Great Lakes Airways' "service" have completely turned me off of using a perfectly good local 

airport. Great Lakes feels no need to keep its posted schedule, either flying from Denver to Scottsbluff or flying 

Scottsbluff to Denver. As you likely know, Great Lakes has canceled more than ~0% of its flights to and from Scottsbluff 

at various times over the last two years. This makes flying to DIA to catch connecting flights an enormous gamble. It is 

also intolerable for business owners who need to bring people to Scottsbluff for work via air travel from Denver. I am 

not the only business owner who has had to beg for forgiveness from professionals who either suddenly had to rent a 

car in Denver and drive like hell to Scottsbluff, or else had to rent a car in Scottsbluff and drive like hell to Denver (while 

rescheduling a connecting flight). 

We are relieved that the local airport authority has received and approved a bid from Aerodynamics, Inc. We would 

appreciate FAA's approval of EAS funding so that our airport may accept the bid, and we as local professionals may have 

a credible airline serving our business community. 

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Bridget.Peck@nationstarmail.com 

Tuesday, November 04, 2014 9:47 AM 

Martin, Michael (OST) 

Western Nebraska Regional Airport 

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Please accept this email as a letter of support for Western Nebraska Regional Airport and air service in Scottsbluff, 

Nebraska. My colleagues and I rely on our airport for regular business travel. Loss of this service in our region would be 

extremely detrimental to us as individuals and to our company. Today, we are able to fly to Denver in an hour and work 

for a couple hours while waiting for our next flight. The inability to fly from Scottsbluff would replace the current 1 hour 

flight and 2 hours of work time with 4 hours of travel by vehicle - a significant loss of productive time. 

In addition to my individual appreciation for our airport, on a larger scale, I believe loss of our air service would be a 

crushing blow to local economic development. It would be quite difficult to attract new companies without air service in 

the region. The impact here is not only on Scottsbluff, but also on the entire Nebraska Panhandle. 

Finally, I point out that we have an excellent facility. I have not seen another airport of its size with the same quality of 

building and staff. It would be such a waste to lose air service at such a facility. 

Please feel free to reach out to me with any questions. I hope I have conveyed how critical air service is to our 

community. Thank you! 

Bridget Peck 

VP, Operational Controls & Examinations 

Nationstar Mortgage 

2617 College Park 

Scottsbluff, NE 69361 

308-220-3651 (w) 

308-631-9663 (m) 

bridget. peck@nationstarmail.com 

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Western Nebraska Regional Airport 

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Please accept this email as a letter of support for Western Nebraska Regional Airport and air service in Scottsbluff, 

Nebraska. My colleagues and I rely on our airport for regular business travel. Loss of this service in our region would be 

extremely detrimental to us as individuals and to our company. Today, we are able to fly to Denver in an hour and work 

for a couple hours while waiting for our next flight. The inability to fly from Scottsbluff would replace the current 1 hour 

flight and 2 hours of work time with 4 hours of travel by vehicle - a significant loss of productive time. 

In addition to my individual appreciation for our airport, on a larger scale, I believe loss of our air service would be a 

crushing blow to local economic development. It would be quite difficult to attract new companies without air service in 

the region. The impact here is not only on Scottsbluff, but also on the entire Nebraska Panhandle. 

Finally, I point out that we have an excellent facility. I have not seen another airport of its size with the same quality of 

building and staff. It would be such a waste to lose air service at such a facility. 

Please feel free to reach out to me with any questions. I hope I have conveyed how critical air service is to our 

community. Thank you! 

Bridget Peck 

VP, Operational Controls & Examinations 

Nationstar Mortgage 

2617 College Park 

Scottsbluff, NE 69361 

308-220-3651 (w) 

308-631-9663 (m) 

bridget.peck@nationstarmail.com 

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Myles, Rick <rmyles@sbps.net> 

Tuesday, November 04, 2014 10:58 AM 

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Scottsbluff EAS Bid- EAS Docket OST-20b3-145'3S. ·-, 

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I am very interested in the process and decisions that have evolved following the Western Nebraska 

Regional Airport Special Board Meeting held on October 22. I am very supportive of the selection of 

EAS Aerodynamics Inc. as the new airline provider for Scottsbluff and the neighboring region. 

I believe Aerodynamics Inc. will be a tremendous asset to our area and to our state. 

Sincerely, 

Richard A. Myles 

Superintendent 

Scottsbluff Public Schools 

308-635-6200 

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Travis Hiner <thiner@charter.net> 

Tuesday, November 04, 2014 12:31 PM 

Martin, Michael (OST) 

'S/G Chamber' 

New airline 

We desperately need a new airline at Scottsbluff Nebraska. Because of lack of reliability and high 

price, we effectively have not had an airline for several years. Because of this, our business 

community and citizens have refused to use our airport. We are excited about the proposed airline, 

AD I. If they deliver on their promises of reliability and significantly lower prices, our airport will again 

become a viable asset for the community again. Not only has the community invested millions of 

dollars in our airport, it is essential for our economic growth. 

Sincerely 

Travis Hiner 

Scottsbluff, Nebraska 

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Karen S Hascall < karen.s.hascall.i760@statefarm.com > 

Tuesday, November 04, 2014 1:14 PM 

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I am writing this letter to recommend that your department approve ADI as the Essential Air Service carrier for Western 

Nebraska Regional Airport. 

Over the years, Great Lakes has served us well. However, with the new pilot requirement and passenger limitation the 

service has been less than acceptable. 

I attended the meeting where the executives from ADI were present. Their attitude was very progressive in wanting to 

eventually make the route self-sufficient without subsidies. 

Therefore, at this time, I would hope that approval would be possible for a new carrier to Scottsbluff. 

If you have further questions, please do not hesitate to call me at 308-635-1111. 

Respectfully 

Neal Smith 

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