Eastern Oregon Regional Airport
Eastern Oregon Regional Airport (Eastern Oregon Regional Airport at Pendleton) is a public airport three miles northwest of Pendleton, in Umatilla County, Oregon, United States. Commercial service is provided by one airline, subsidized by the Essential Air Service program. According to the Federal Aviation Administration, the airport had 7,217 passenger boardings in calendar year 2008, 3,828 in 2009, 4,898 in 2010 and 4,305 in 2015. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a "non-primary commercial service" airport (between 2,500 and 10,000 enplanements per year). Facilities. Eastern Oregon Regional Airport covers  2,273 acres (920 ha) at an elevation of 1,497 feet (456 m). It has three asphalt runways: 7/25 is 6,301 by 150 feet (1,921 x 46 m); 11/29 is 5,581 by 100 feet (1,701 x 30 m); 16/34 is 4,341 by 60 feet (1,323 x 18 m). In 2010 the airport had 19,885 aircraft operations, average 54 per day: 77% general aviation, 17% air taxi, and 6% military. 46 aircraft were then based at the airport: 46% single-engine, 2% multi-engine, 22% helicopter, 7% glider, 9% ultralight, and 15% military. Historical airline service. United Airlines served Pendleton from the  1930s until 1981. Jet service appeared in 1968; United Boeing 727-100s, 727-200s and 737-200s flew nonstop mainly to Portland, OR and Boise. In the late 1960s and into the 1970s, United flew direct, no change of plane 727 service to Salt Lake City, Chicago, and Newark or Washington, DC (DCA). In 1969 United 727-100s flew eastbound Portland, OR - Pendleton - Boise - Salt Lake City - Chicago O'Hare Airport - Pittsburgh - Allentown, PA/Bethlehem, PA/Easton, PA - New York Newark Airport and westbound Des Moines - Denver - Salt Lake City - Boise - Pendleton - Portland, OR in addition to flying daily Boeing 737 -200 service with a round trip routing of Pendleton - Portland - Eugene, OR - Medford, OR - San Francisco (SFO) for a total of three jet departures a day. According to the Official Airline Guide (OAG), by the spring of 1981 United was operating two daily Boeing 727-200 flights serving Pendleton with an eastbound routing of San Francisco (SFO) - Portland, OR - Pendleton - Salt Lake City - Denver - Philadelphia and a westbound routing of Providence, RI - Chicago O'Hare Airport - Salt Lake City - Pendleton - Portland, OR - San Francisco (SFO). This same OAG also lists three nonstop flights a day between Pendleton and Portland, OR operated  by Air Oregon with Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner commuter propjets in the spring of 1981. All United mainline jet service ended on May 22, 1981. Earlier in the 1960s United Douglas DC-6s, DC-7s and Convair 340s served Pendleton. In 1966 the airport was stop on a daily flight between Washington state and Oklahoma jointly operated by United and Continental Airlines as an interchange service with a Douglas DC-6B flying Seattle - Portland, OR - Pendleton - Boise - Salt Lake City - Denver - Wichita - Tulsa while United was also operating twice daily round trip Portland, OR - Pendleton - Spokane DC-6 service. Beginning in 1982, regional air carrier  Horizon Air, now a subsidiary of Alaska Airlines, flew Fairchild Swearingen Metroliners followed by Fairchild F-27s and de Havilland Canada DHC-8 Dash 8s to Portland before ending service to Pendleton in 2008. Horizon flew under their own branding from 1982 until mid-1985, as United Express from mid-1985 through early 1987 on a code sharing basis on behalf of United Airlines, and then as Alaska Horizon from early 1987 through late 2008 on a code sharing basis on behalf of Alaska Airlines. The airport was also served by Portland-based Air Oregon with Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner commuter propjets from 1978 through  1982 with nonstop flights to Portland and Boise as well as to other smaller cities in Oregon which were served with small Piper Navajo prop aircraft. In 1981, Air Oregon was operating up to four nonstop flights a day to Portland with Metroliner aircraft before being acquired by Horizon Air later that same year. By 1983, Horizon Air was operating two nonstop flights a day to Portland with Metroliner aircraft and in 1985 the airline was operating up to three nonstop flights a day to Portland, two with Metroliner aircraft and the third with a Fairchild F-27 turboprop. By 1998 , Horizon Air was operating four daily flights from Pendleton with de Havilland DHC-8 Dash 8 turboprop service to Portland. One flight was nonstop while the other three all made a stop at Pasco, WA. Recent and current airline service. On October 21, 2008, SeaPort Airlines was awarded a two-year grant under the federal Essential Air Service (EAS) program to provide commercial service from Portland to Pendleton beginning December 1, 2008, replacing the previous subsidized service operated by Horizon Air. SeaPort service continued to operate utilizing the Cessna 208 Caravan turboprop aircraft, six days a week until September 20, 2016  when the airline ceased all service due to bankruptcy. Boutique Air was then awarded a contract for 21 round-trips a week between Pendleton and Portland using Pilatus PC-12 turboprop aircraft, with the option to operate one service a day to Seattle/Tacoma instead of Portland, from October 1, 2016. The contract is worth US$2.3 million per year and goes until the end of 2022. Boutique Air has the option to operate trips from Pendleton to Boise in Idaho, but these will not be subsidized under the EAS program. Boutique Air is currently operating scheduled passenger service only to  Portland from the airport.