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As of November 2013, Great Lakes Airlines received $58,299,575 in annual federal subsidies for Essential Air Services that they provided to rural airports in the U.S. [3] Great Lakes Airlines was a large United Express feeder carrier from 1992 to 2002 operating to over 100 cities.
EAS subsidies have increased by more than 500% since 1997. Pursuant to the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2000, no community within the 48 contiguous states may receive a subsidy greater than $200 per passenger unless the community is more than 210 miles (340 km) from the nearest large or medium hub airport.
Order 2008-6-26 (June 19, 2008): selecting Great Lakes Aviation, Ltd. to provide subsidized essential air service (EAS) at Merced and Visalia, California, and Ely, Nevada, for the two-year period beginning when the carrier inaugurates full EAS pursuant to this Order, at an annual subsidy of $4,900,401 with 19-seat Beech 1900D turboprop aircraft.
On November 6, 2006, Mesa Airlines announced that, in February 2007, subsidiary Air Midwest would begin flying to Decatur Airport and on to Chicago Midway International Airport. Mesa announced service from Marion would end on November 9, 2007. On October 23, 2007, Allegiant Air announced service to McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas ...
Great Lakes left the United Express system in early 2002, although it continued to do codeshare flights until they ceased operations in 2018. A United Express BAe 146-300 in the 1985–1993 livery at Washington Dulles International Airport in 1990, behind a mainline Douglas DC-8 and McDonnell Douglas DC-10 .
The airport has been without passenger air service since December 2017, when Great Lakes Airlines, a small regional company, ceased operations. ... By contrast, only 92,000 people live within 25 ...
The global container shipping crisis that has ships piling up at massive West and East coast ports is presenting an opportunity for Toledo and other Great Lakes ports. But local and federal ...
Flights to Kansas City and Minneapolis were added in 1990 and the carrier began a code-share alliance with Continental Airlines in 1994 operating as Continental Connection. GP Express used Beechcraft Model 99 and Beechcraft 1900C aircraft. The carrier shut down in 1996. Great Lakes Airlines began