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Show fAoab is Now Without Daily Air Service As of last Saturday, Moab has been without daily commercial com-mercial airline service. Key Transportation Company received re-ceived permission from the Utah Public Service Commission Commis-sion to discontinue service on that date, pending a final decision by the commission. Details of that tentative decision are listed in a public notice in this issue. Moab residents have a certain amount of time in which to respond to the Commission about the discontinuance of service, if they so desire. The hopes for a substitute carrier to take over when Key pulled out dimmed somewhat this week when Jerry Atkin, . president of Sky West Aviation i of St. George, indicated that he was losing interest in moving into the market. Frontier Airlines, which will have to begin service again in thirty days if they don't t receive relief from the Civil jj Aeronautics Board, had spok- 5 en to Mr. Atkin earlier, and R had offered cooperation in the P event his company was willing C to begin serving Moab. Fron-l Fron-l tier reported at that time that 8 Mr. Atkin was extremely 6 interested. 6 Utah Agencies was meeting in Salt Lake City Wednesday, ft and following that meeting, zi Utah Director of Transporta-V. Transporta-V. tion Blaine J. Kay stated that 0 he intended again to contact ( Sky West about a resumption of the Moab service. If they do j so, they will receive a $20,000 t, cash payment from the State of Utah to help defray any losses " that might be incurred. Mean-W Mean-W while, the Utah Air Transpor- tation Committee has made tentative selection of a consulting consult-ing firm to put together an application to the federal CAB for permanent authority and subsidy for commuter airlines for service to rural Utah communities, including Moab. That application should be filed by mid-summer, and it is hoped that action will come by fall. "Things look really good with the CAB at this time," stated Jerry Mooney, chairman chair-man of the Utah Air Transportation Transpor-tation Committee. Meanwhile, back at the farm, Moab air passengers are having to travel elsewhere to catch a regular scheduled flight. Klen Brooks, fixed base operator at Canyonlands Field tfor Canyonlands Air Service, stated that his three aircraft were keeping plenty busy this week getting stranded river runners from Grand Junction to Moab for their vacation river runs. |
