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Show Coriei Meet Reviewed Air Service Problems Economic Development Committee Co-mmittee members Ray Bran-scorn Bran-scorn and Don Hoffman and County Commissioner Dan Holyoak traveled to Cortez, Colo, last Thursday to meet with other community leaders lead-ers in the Four Corners area who are served by Frontier Airlines. Purposeof the meeting mee-ting was to discuss means of improving commercial airline air-line service to rural communities com-munities in this region. Mr. Hoffman reported that attendance at the meeting was only fair, due to bad weather in the region, which hampered ham-pered travel to Cortez. Several hours were spent in a disucssion of the problems prob-lems encountered by the communities com-munities in this region .with relation to service by Frontier. Fron-tier. Present to aid in the discussion were Dr. Douglas Cochran, who serves as a consultant to the Four Corners Cor-ners Commission and the State of Arizona; BillGibbins of the Four Corners Commission Comm-ission and Bob White of New Mexico. It was determined that the group should schedule another ano-ther meeting which will be expanded to include any towns in the Four Corners area which board less than 10,000 passengers per year, whether or not they are served by r. mtier or some other commercial com-mercial carrier. Hoffman was oppointed as temporary chairman of the group and he will be organizing the second meeting. |