The DOT announced Friday it was requesting proposals from airlines interested in providing Essential Air Service flights at Tupelo, as well as Muscle Shoals, Alabama, for a new contract starting March 1, 2018, with or without a subsidy.
It’s where the Contour brand got its start.” “Tupelo, aside from being a valuable part of our network, has a special place. “We have a desire to remain the carrier providing service to Tupelo,” said Matt Chaifetz, CFM’s chief executive officer. With that in mind, its corporate parent, Corporate Flight Management of Smryna, Tennessee, will be bidding for another two-year contract through the U.S. Responding in a separate letter to Buttigieg on April 27, SkyWest President and CEO Russel "Chip" Childs rejected ALPA's.TUPELO – Contour Airlines had a record number of boardings last month for its Tupelo-to-Nashville flights, and after 16 months of service, it has proven to be a reliable service. "The airline seeks to shift its flying under Part 121's safety regulations to its own surrogate that will operate the same aircraft but under public charter rules and Part 135's safety regulations, with fewer seats and less experienced and qualified first officers." It accused SkyWest of attempting to "roll back the clock and skirt aviation safety rules that have led to a 99.8% reduction in airline passenger fatalities in the United States". In the April 26 letter, the world's largest pilot union described SWC as an attempt by SkyWest to substitute Essential Air Service (EAS) flying with an "alter-ego charter subsidiary operating essentially as a scheduled operation, but at a lesser level of safety". SkyWest Airlines (OO, Salt Lake City) has dismissed as "baseless, inaccurate, and misleading" concerns about its Part 135 charter subsidiary SkyWest Charter (SWC) expressed by the Air Line Pilots Association International (ALPA) in a letter to US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. US's SkyWest responds to ALPA over charter concerns - 19:19 UTC "We believe this will be in the best interest of the community maximising the benefits to the travelling public, and will result in no change in subsidy," it said.Īccording to its initial January 2023 proposal for the Owensboro EAS contract, Contour Airlines operates 30-seater Embraer. In a separate letter, the board of the Owensboro Daviess County Regional Airport, on behalf of the Owensboro and Daviess County community, expressed support for the hub change requested by Contour Airlines. In its May 3 application to the US Department of Transportation (DOT), Contour Airlines says the request follows consultations with the Owensboro community in Daviess County, Kentucky.Ĭontour Airlines seeks permission to shift its 12 weekly round trips provided to the city, but there will be no change in the gauge of service and no change in the subsidy. US's Contour Airlines seeks hub change for Owensboro EAS - 14:28 UTCĬontour Airlines (LF, Tupelo) has requested a hub change for its Essential Air Service (EAS) at Owensboro from Charlotte International to Chicago O'Hare effective August 1 for the duration of its contract.
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