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Show Sun Valley-Key Official Explains Coming Service Robert Soltys, director direct-or of marketing for Sun Valley Key Airlines, the firm which recently received re-ceived State Public Service Ser-vice Commission authority auth-ority to serve a Moab to Price and Salt Lake City route, addressed members mem-bers of the Chamber of Commerce Tuesday and discussed that company's com-pany's operations. Sun Valley Key, formerly form-erly known as Thunder-bird Thunder-bird Airlines, was one of the first 12 commuter airlines to be registered by the Federal government govern-ment in 1964. At that time the;, were serving short ' pa Seng n s in the Ogcien area to other cities ci-ties on the Wasatch front. In 1970, they began once a week service from Salt Lake City to Sun Valley, Idaho and last year purchased pur-chased Sun Valley Airlines Air-lines which served the Boise to Sun Valley route. It was after this merger that the name Sun Valley Key was adopted. At this time, the company com-pany has a total of 38 round trips per day covering cov-ering the area between Salt Lake City, Ogden, Provo, Sun Valley, Logan Log-an and Boise. Beginning the first of June, when their authority is extended, extend-ed, they will have 42 round trips per day, one of which serves the route of Moab to Salt Lake City. This flight will leave Moab at about 7:30 a.m. and the return flight from Salt Lake City will leave there about 6:30 p.m. The plane will stay in Moab overnight. Last year, according to Mr. Soltys, the company com-pany carried 2.4 million pounds of air freight, 14,300 scheduled passengers pas-sengers and 1500 charter chart-er passengers for a total of 3 million revenue passenger pas-senger miles. The company com-pany showed a net profit for ' last vear of just over $40,000. |