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Show Utah's Air Service May Be Lost Through Adverse CAB Ruling Passenger, mail and air express ex-press service through the operation opera-tion of the Challenger Air Lines route between Phoenix and Salt Lake City may be lost for Provo, Delta, Cedar City, St. George, Mt. Pleasant, Manti, Ephraim, Richfield, Rich-field, Beaver and Milford, in U- tah. and tn Plaocfaff rr. cott, in Arizona, as a result of a most amazing CAB decision, just handed down. The Civil Aeornautics board has just denied an application for a permit by the Challenger Air Lines, of Salt Lake City, to operate a feeder line between Phoenix, Arizona and Salt Lake City, Utah on the basis that "the service was not needed." Without a protected schodule it is problematical if the line can continue operations which have proven so popular and welcome wel-come to Utah and Arizona communities. com-munities. Hugh Barker, cnairman of the Salt Lake City Chamber of Commerce, Com-merce, with the cooperation of the Utah Municipal League, through Tom McCoy, executive director, have requested George W. Synder, Jr., president of the Challenger Lines, to reopen the case, and havr asked the co-opration co-opration of all of the communities communi-ties served as intervenors in a new fight to save the route. "The decision of the CAB is most amazing since it has granted grant-ed a full system of feeder lines for Colorado, Wyoming and Idaho, Ida-ho, states surrounding Utah," according ac-cording to Mr. McCoy, "and turns down the one Utah line which would connect rich agricultural and industial sections of this large state. It seems nothing more than rank discrimination." No more proof of the "need" of the service is needed, according to Mr. Baker, a former airlines pilot, that the fact that operating on a non-schedule basis, approxi-mcly approxi-mcly three flights a week, the firm has operated on a near-capacity near-capacity basis even without sales force, promotion or sustained advertising. ad-vertising. Upon this basis, according ac-cording to Mr. Baker, there isn't the slightest doubt it could become be-come a successful operation on a protected schedule. Utah and Arizona communities it has been serving, attest to its value to their communities. |