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Show Campbell Gorges mmmwAy action m m serace eronautic Board and indicat-J indicat-J that some changes in ma-jt ma-jt concepts of commercial air ransportation is creating .roblems in areas such as Ce-ar Ce-ar City, Vernal and Moab in Jtah. Two basic services have vrevicusly been considered by CAB, Campbell pointed out ncluding major trunk line ",ervice for long haul transportation transpor-tation to major market areas ind local service, which was designed to provide feeder iervice to low density stations vith subsidy help by the government. gov-ernment. Local carriers are now attempting at-tempting to enter the trunk line service, he indicated and ire approaching the CAB with routes indicate that on the basis of present fare rate which have jumped from $'. to $36, that the statute mile rate between Cedar City and Salt Lake City now stood at 12.5 cents per mile. Campbell compared that to major jet service rates from Salt Lake City to Las Vegas at 9.2 cents per mile and from Salt Lake to San Francisco at 7.8 cents per mile. Similar shorter hauls such as Buffalo to New York and Baltimore toPTtts-burg toPTtts-burg in the East were at a statute mile rate of 9.5 and 11 cents per mile, respectively. respec-tively. Campbell referred to the massive air fare study now being conducted by the Civil The changing role of air carriers and its effect on air service to Cedar City was discussed dis-cussed by Bob Campbell, attorney at-torney for Utah Agencies at a public meeting hosted by the Cedar City Chamber of Commerce Com-merce Thursday. Campbell pointed out that Cedar City is in deep trouble as are other satalite areas of the state, in relation to scheduled sched-uled air transportation and Indicated the high importance of air service to the community. commun-ity. He suggested the possibility of the elimination of service as provided, by Air West and suggested that in effect "you've "you-'ve lost service now." An Inadequate volume of frequency makes it necessary for a potential passenger to "have either a love affai; with the carrier or with flying fly-ing itself," to use the service owing to iU present lack of convenience. The air service specialist also noted that fares were out of line with other major markets mar-kets and similar short haul I :he concept of a reduction of subsidy for routing consideration consider-ation in these areas. ! Campbell suggested that the CAB needs to take a look , at the overall situation and possible a third type of service serv-ice should be initiated to provide pro-vide what local service carriers car-riers previously were providing provid-ing to low density stations such as Cedar City. Air service, expected to continue to climb, reached a peak in 1969 and showed a decline in the past year. That i left air carriers holding the bag and almost without exception ex-ception operating, as a result at a loss during the past year. As a result cf service decline de-cline and rate . increase passenger pass-enger loadings have dropped in Cedar City from 49 per week in 1968 to 14 at the present time. Vernal, serviced by Frontier Airlines has had a 50 percent reduction In us-ige us-ige over the same period, he emphasized. 1 , ' The attorney also pointed nit that for a service to continue con-tinue it must be used and suggested that through the ., ?ocperative efforts of Cedar Uah Agencies and other in-erested in-erested parties that efforts hould be made, through appeals ap-peals to the CAB to restore an .-equate service by the car- ... N er so that utilization might e realized and a substantial iir service restored to the . area. |