{"id":37948,"date":"2014-01-27T09:35:19","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T15:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=37948"},"modified":"2014-02-02T14:43:27","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T20:43:27","slug":"great-lakes-airlines-discontinues-jmst-serv-eff-feb-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=37948","title":{"rendered":"Great Lakes Ends Jmst Air Service Feb 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"greatlakesbeech\"<\/a>Jamestown, (CSi)\u00a0 Jamestown Regional Airport Manager, Matt Leitner says Jamestown and Devils Lake were informed, on Monday (Jan 27, 2014) \u00a0that Great Lakes intends to discontinue commercial air service effective February 1, 2014 to both cities.\u00a0\u00a0 (see related story – SkyWest to Serve Jamestown<\/a>). <\/strong><\/p>\n

Leitner adds, due to a lack of qualified pilots\u00a0Great Lakes is \u00a0drastically scaling back Minneapolis St. Paul operations and exiting many markets.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0For affected markets, fares will be refunded and tickets will no longer be sold.<\/p>\n

In a statement issued by Great Lakes Airline,\u00a0 service will be suspended\u00a0 for Devils Lake and Jamestown, ND; Fort Dodge and Mason City, IA; Ironwood, MI; and Thief River Falls, MN due to the severe industry-wide pilot shortage and its relative acute impact on Great Lakes.\u00a0 This constitutes most all of their flights to and from the Minneapolis\/St.Paul airport.\u00a0 This is in addition to Clovis, NM; Pueblo, Col; Vernal & Moab, UT.\u00a0\u00a0 Great Lakes will have reduced airports served from 44 to 34,\u00a0 a reduction of 10 EAS cities by Feb 1.<\/p>\n

Letiner points our that\u00a0the North Dakota \u00a0congressional delegation and North Dakota Aeronautics Commission have been apprised of the situation.<\/p>\n

On\u00a0Monday,\u00a0Jamestown Regional Airport Authority Chairman Jim Boyd, Jamestown Mayor Katie Andersen and\u00a0Leitner will be participating in a conference call with Devils Lake, North Dakota\u00a0Aeronautics, the congressional delegation and the U.S. Department of Transportation\u00a0at 3PM on Monday January 27, 2014.<\/p>\n

Officials in both Devils Lake and Jamestown earlier endorsed a switch from Great Lakes to SkyWest Airlines to provide service under the federal Essential Air Service program. Great Lakes provides service on turboprop planes, while SkyWest flies jets. The federal Department of Transportation has the final say, and has until February 6, 2014, to make a decision on either of the two airlines making bids on the Jamestown EAS package, the present carrier, Great Lakes Airlines, or SkyWest.<\/p>\n

Airports losing service:<\/p>\n

Thief River Falls, MN<\/p>\n

Mason City, IA<\/p>\n

Fort Dodge, IA<\/p>\n

Ironwood, MI<\/p>\n

Jamestown, ND<\/p>\n

Devils Lake, ND<\/p>\n

Clovis, NM<\/p>\n

Pueblo, Col<\/p>\n

Vernal, UT<\/p>\n

Moab, UT<\/p>\n

Prior route map,\u00a0 cities being eliminated are indicated by red dot:<\/p>\n

\"GreatLakesRouteMap2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Jamestown, (CSi)\u00a0 Jamestown Regional Airport Manager, Matt Leitner says Jamestown and Devils Lake were informed, on Monday (Jan 27, 2014) \u00a0that Great Lakes intends to discontinue commercial air service effective February 1, 2014 to both cities.\u00a0\u00a0 (see related story – SkyWest to Serve Jamestown). Leitner adds, due to a lack […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9957,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-jamestown","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37948"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38436,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37948\/revisions\/38436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}