Order: 2010-3-35

Served: March 31, 2010

 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

 DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

 OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

 WASHINGTON, D.C.

Issued by the Department of Transportation

on the 31st day of March, 2010

 Docket DOT-OST-2006-23931

 

 

ORDER TERMINATING CARRIER-SELECTION CASE

Summary

By this order, the Department is: (1) relying on Delta Air Lines to provide subsidy-free essential 

air service (EAS) at Columbia/Jefferson City, Missouri, and (2) terminating the carrier-selection 

case effective September 1, 2010, when the currently effective EAS contract at the community 

expires.

Background

By Order 2010-3-28, March 23, 2010, the Department requested proposals from carriers 

interested in providing essential air service (EAS) at Columbia/Jefferson City, Missouri, for the 

next two-year period from September 1, 2010, through August 31, 2012, with or without 

subsidy. 

Response from Delta Air Lines

On March 30, 2010, the Department received an e-mail from Karen Zachary, Delta Air Lines

(“Delta”), Network Planning. It stated, “With respect to the [Columbia/Jefferson City] EAS 

upcoming bid request, Delta will continue to offer the minimum required service but due to the 

success of this route, we will not be requiring any subsidy amount. The airport, county, and 

local community has done a great job on promoting our service and we are pleased with the 

community’s response in our air service.”

Essential Air Service at

COLUMBIA/JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI

under 49 U.S.C. 41731 et seq.
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Decision

As we do in all our requests for proposals, we asked for proposals “with or without” subsidy. 

Footnote one of Order 2010-3-28 states, “In cases where a carrier proposes to provide essential 

air service without subsidy and we determine that service can be reliably provided without such 

compensation, we do not proceed with the carrier-selection case. Instead, we simply rely on that 

carrier’s subsidy-free service as proposed.”

49 U.S.C. 41733(d) states that the “Secretary shall end payment of compensation to an air carrier 

for providing basic essential air service to an eligible place when the Secretary decides the 

compensation is no longer necessary to maintain basic essential air service to the place.” 

Therefore, we will therefore rely on Delta’s subsidy-free EAS at the end of the existing contract 

on August 31.

This order is issued under authority delegated in 14 CFR 385.12(k). 

ACCORDINGLY,

1. We rely on the subsidy-free air service proposed by Delta Air Lines at Columbia/Jefferson 

City, Missouri, effective September 1, 2010; and

2. We will serve copies of this order on the Mayors of Columbia and Jefferson City, Missouri, 

the airport manager of Columbia Regional Airport, Delta Air Lines, and the parties listed in 

Appendix A. 

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

Regulations, 14 CFR 385.50, must file such petitions within ten (10) 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)

An electronic version of this document is available on the Internet at http://www.regulations.gov 
Appendix A

Scheduled Air Carriers, Contiguous US and Puerto Rico

Air Sunshine, Inc. Intrepid Internatl Air, Rick Eyk

Air Sunshine, Mirmohammad Adili Island Air Charters, Linda House

Air West, Inc., John Raatz Jet Air, Daniel Wolford

Air Wisconsin, Annette Daly Kenmore Air, Tim Brooks

Airline Associates, Bill Mishk McCall Aviation and Salmon Air, Dan Scott

Alaska Airlines, Jeff Cole McCall Aviation, Michelle

Alaska Airlines, Sandy Sinick Mesa, Jonathan Ornstein

Allegiant Air, Robert Ashscroft Mesa, Michael Lotz 

American Airlines, Carl Nelson Mesa, Mike Holcomb

American Eagle, Jeffrey Hartz Mesaba, John Spanjers 

Atlantic Southeast, Jon Lindlief Mesaba, Max Shemesh

Atlantis Southeast, Roger Weston Midstar Airlines, Jeffrey Fonner

Bemidji Aviation, Cori Rude Midwest Airlines, Greg Aretakis

Bemidji Aviation, Arlen Rinkenberger MN Aviation, Jose Maldonado 

Cape Air, Andrew Bonney Multi Aero, Darnea

Cape Air, Dan Wolf Multi Aero, Shane Storz

Cape Air, J. Flaherty Northwest, Tim McDonald 

Classic Aviation, Tony Henderson NYDC, Henok Araya

Colgan Air, Mike Colgan OST, Brian Swanson

CommutAir, Andy Price OST, Dennis DeVany

CommutAir, Joel Raymond OST, Kevin Adams

Consultant, Robert Silverberg OST, Kevin Schlemmer

Continental, Bruce Keiner OST, Michael Martin 

Continental, Dan Weiss OST, Renee Williams

Continental, Lorry Halloway Pacific Wings, Frank Ford

Delta, Amy Martin Pacific Wings, Greg Kahlstorf

Delta, Dan Shuman PenAir, Danny Seybert

Delta, Jeff Morgan PenAir, Scott Bloomquist

Delta, Joe Esposito Pinnacle Airlines, Joe Williams 

Delta, Karen Zachary Pinnacle Airlines, Phil Reed

Delta, Sascha Vanderbellen Public Charters, Jim Gallagher

Dorado Jets Scenic, Mary Schneider

Dorado Jets, Mark McKenna Scenic, Mitzi Daines

Era Aviation, Mike Lenorman Seaborne Airlines, Wayne D'Amico

Executive Airlines, Kate Soled SeaPort Airlines, Jim Day

Frontier Flying, Bob Hajducovich SeaPort Airlines, Rob McKinney

Gem Air, Dan Schroeder Shuttle America, Jerry Balsano 

Gem Air, JoAnn Wolters SkyWest, Eric Christensen

Great Lakes, Chuck Howell SkyWest, Michael Thompson

Great Lakes, Doug Voss Sovereign Air, Bob Karns

Great Lakes, Greg Stephens Sovereign Air, Lois R. Barton

Gulfstream, Dave Hackett Tradewind, Eric Zipkin 

Gulfstream, Mickey Bowman TransStates, Fred Oxley 

Gulfstream, T. Cooper TransStates, Gerry Wigmore

Homeland Security, Bill Ragan United, Alicia Gabriel

Homeland Security, David Bernier United, James Starnes

Homeland Security, Randy Webb US Airways, Benjamin Slocum

Horizon Air, Dan Russo US Airways, Howard Kass

Horizon Air, Jennifer Thompson US Airways, Jason Reisinger 

Horizon Air, Jeff Cole Warbelows Air Ventures, Art Warbelow

ICEPR, Luis Irizarry Wings Air (Air Greco), Aaron Goerlich