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Show Frontier Boardings at Moab are up Considerably This Year, Report Says Passenger boardings at Canyonlands Field are up substantially for this year, according ac-cording to Frontier Airlines station manager, Tim Mul-ville Mul-ville this week. Mulville said that during November there were 101 boardings for the two flight.? which leave this field compared com-pared with 40 for the same month a year ago. Part of this drastic difference, how- ' ever, was due to some cun-" struction going on last year. For October a year ago there' were 155 boardings with that' total flitting 235 tor' the sanii month- this year. Summer boardings at the field averaged averag-ed about 220 pet month. Mulville Mul-ville ' indicated : that the operation would be on a pro-tu pro-tu making basis with about 325 ' boardings per mohth. At this time Canyonlands Fieid is about midway in profit-loss profit-loss standings compared 'with' other local areas which Frontier Fron-tier serves. After. Jan. 1, when a new connection is made in Grand Junction with a flight from .'Denver,, which will remove a long layover, boardings at ' the field should pick up, Mulville indicated. For December, boardings are running ahead of the same time last year when only 63 persons had boarded by this time. This year there have been 76 boardings with the heaviest period of boardings board-ings yet to come before the end ol the month. At this time a flight leaves Canyonlands Field at 6 : 3'J a.m. and arrives in Grand Junction at 6:51 a.m. Connections Con-nections in Grand Junction for Salt Lake City leave at 10:05 a.m. and arrive in tfu Capitol at 10:46. The flight arrives in Denver at 8 a.m. The afternoon flight from Moab leaves here at 2:44 and arrives in Denver at 5:24 p.m. It connects with a Salt Lake City flight for arrival there at 4:11 p.m. Return flights from Salt Lake City leave there at 6:20 p.m. and arrive in Moab at 8:42 p.m. An evening flight leaves Denver at 7:10 and arrives in Moab at 8:42. The two flights connect in Grand Junction. Mulville indicated that tha recent snow and bad weather has had virtually no effect on operations at the field. w County snow removal equipment equip-ment and prompt action by County crews has kept tiie runway relatively free from snow. The addition of the new omni-rang elast summer has made it possible for the planes to land in worse weather wea-ther than was ever before possible. The reliability cf the flights has been the best; in quite some time, Mulvilie concluded. |