                                                                        
                              Served: March 16, 2004

 

         UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

   DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

           OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

                  WASHINGTON, D.C.

Issued by the Department of Transportation 

on the 11th day of March, 2004

Essential Air Service at

GRAND ISLAND, NEBRASKA

KEARNEY, NEBRASKA

McCOOK, NEBRASKA

NORFOLK, NEBRASKA

NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA

SCOTTSBLUFF, NEBRASKA

under 49 U.S.C. 41731 et seq.

 	Docket OST-2002-13983

 	Docket OST-1996-1715

 	Docket OST-1997-3005

 	Docket OST-1998-3704

 	Docket OST-1999-5173

 	Docket OST-2003-14535

Notice of Extension

This serves as notice to the public of the action described below, taken
by the Department official indicated.  (No additional confirming order
will be issued in this matter.)

By Order 2003-12-2, served December 5, 2003, the Department requested
proposals from air carriers interested in providing essential air
service at Grand Island, Kearney, McCook, Norfolk, North Platte, and
Scottsbluff, Nebraska.  Six air carriers submitted a total of 59
proposal options.  By letter dated February 18, 2004, we requested
comments on the air carrier selection from the Mayors and Airport
Managers of the six Nebraska communities, as well as from the Director
of the Nebraska Department of Aeronautics.  We requested that these
comments be submitted by March 18, 2004.

We have received a request dated February 25, 2004, from the Airport
Manager of the Western Nebraska Regional Airport in Scottsbluff,
requesting a seven-day extension for submitting the airport’s
comments.  In support of his request, the Airport Manager states that
the Airport Authority Board meeting is scheduled for March 18, the day
comments are due.

Because we recognize that scheduled meetings of local governmental
bodies may occur at inopportune times relative to our letter, we will
grant this request.  Many of the proposals for the six Nebraska points
involve routings that link two or more essential air service
communities, therefore we will grant all of the civic parties an
additional week, until March 25, 2004, to submit their comments on the
service proposals for their communities.

This action is effective immediately.

Action taken by:	Dennis DeVany, Chief

					EAS and Domestic Analysis Division, X-53

					Office of Aviation Analysis

					Office of the Secretary

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