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Show Commuter Airline begins service A new commuter airline began operation this week between Las Vegas, Nev., Cedar City and Salt Lake City. International Air Transport, an Anchorage, Alaska based company, who recently broke ground on a helicopter service station in Cedar, flies the route twice each week day with weekend flight to be added. The turboprop tur-boprop jet Piper Cheyenne planes carry seven passengers. Cedar City manager Cliff Lindsay said there could be some problems with the Public Service Commission and the only other competing commuter airline in the area, Skywest. "It depends on what Skywest does," he said Wednesday. "They may file a complaint and the PSC could shut us down." Lindsay said the PSC claims jurisdiction over the intrastate portion of the route. Skywest, the lone remaining cummuter line since Hughes Air West halted its service to the southern Utah area this summer, flies out of St. George, with a stop in Cedar City enroute to Salt Lake. Lindsay said the airline is awaiting delviery of two 18-passenger tur-boprops tur-boprops and will "go after the ski and tourist market, especially the Japanese." He said he'll travel to Japan in the next couple of months to promote tour packages involving the airline. Lindsay also said the airline would begin serving the eastern portion of Utah, with flights leaving Cedar City and going to Moab, Price and Blanding. He said the company is working with Brian Head Ski Resort and will institute in-stitute flights from Ontario, Calif., to attract the southern California skier. |