Sunday, October 7, 2012

SeaPort launches Arkansas service - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):

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The airline has landed a federal air servicwe contract to serve four Arkansas communities from a hubin Memphis, SeaPort will receive slightly more than $6 million over two SeaPort will serve leisurse and business travelers through three daily round-trip flights weekdays and threew round-trip flights weekends to Jonesboro, El Dorado, Harrison, and Hot The flights begin this fall. SeaPort won the contracrt over severalother airlines. The agreemenr is SeaPort’s first expansiobn outside thePacific Northwest. It now flies to and from Seattle, Pendleton, Astoria and Newport. The Arkansas contract is similar to recen t ventures SeaPort hasentered into.
In October, SeaPort landed a two-yeaer contract in which it will bepaid $3.2 millionj in federal subsidies over two years to provided three daily flights between Portland and Pendleton. The contractg — which can be renewed once — is part of the ’es “essential air service” program aimed at keeping commercial airlinesz atsmall airports. This winter, SeaPoryt was awarded a two-year contract to offer threse flights a day to Astoria and two a day to SeaPort fliesa small, propeller-driven aircraft the nine-seat Pilatus PC-12. The privately held compang doesn’t disclose revenue.

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