PRESCOTT, ʻAriz. – Ua hiki koke mai ka hōʻole ʻana mai Air Midwest ma kahi ʻaoʻao fax. ʻAʻole hiki i ka mea lawe kaʻa ke lele hou aku i ke kaiāulu mauna o Prescott, wahi a nā luna. Pono ke kūlanakauhale e ʻimi i mea hoʻolimalima hou no kona wahi mokulele liʻiliʻi.
"Ua holo maikaʻi nā mea a pau - a laila, bam - ua hala ka mokulele," wahi a Mayor Jack Wilson me ke kaniʻuhū. "ʻAʻole pēlā kāu hana ʻoihana."
He mea hoʻonāukiuki i manaʻo ʻia ma ke kuaʻāina ʻo ʻAmelika.
Ua hōʻoia ke aupuni pekelala i nā kūlanakauhale liʻiliʻi a me nā kūlanakauhale ʻoihana mokulele i 30 mau makahiki i hala i ka wā i hoʻopau ʻia ai ka ʻoihana. Akā ʻo ka piʻi ʻana o nā kumukūʻai wahie ua ʻoi aku ka nui o nā kōkua mai ka papahana Essential Air Service, a he nui nā mea lawe e hoʻāʻo nei e kūkākūkā hou i kā lākou mau ʻaelike a i ʻole e haʻalele loa.
Wahi a ke Keʻena ʻOihana Hoʻokele, nāna e hoʻokele i ka papahana, ua noi nā mokulele e haʻalele i nā ʻaelike kōkua i 20 mau kūlanakauhale a hiki i kēia makahiki. Kokoke ia i ka huina o 2007 mau kulanakauhale o 24. I ka makahiki 2006, ua noi nā mokulele e hoʻokuʻu i nā ʻaelike no 15 mau kūlanakauhale.
I kēia manawa, hoʻolālā ke aupuni pekelala e hōʻemi i kāna kālā Essential Air Service no 2009 i $ 50 miliona, ma lalo o ka hapalua o kāna kālā papahana i kēlā me kēia o nā makahiki ʻehiku i hala.
Ua ʻōlelo ʻo Jim Corridore, kahi loiloi ma Standard & Poor's, e mākaukau nā kaiāulu kuaʻāina no nā mokulele liʻiliʻi i ka wā e hiki mai ana.
"ʻAʻole kēia he aloha," wahi a Corridore. “Aia nā mokulele i kahi ʻoihana e loaʻa kālā, ʻaʻole lākou. ʻOiaʻiʻo, ke nalowale nei lākou i nā piliona kālā. No laila pono e ʻoki ʻia kekahi mea. "
ʻAʻole ʻae ka ʻAhahui Airline Regional. Hiki i nā kaiāulu kūwaho ke mālama i kā lākou lawelawe ea inā hoʻololi ʻia ka papahana federal a hāʻawi ʻia i ke kālā e pono ai, wahi a Faye Malarkey, he lobbyist no ka hui.
Wahi a nā luna o ka mokulele, ʻo ka hemahema nui me Essential Air Service ʻaʻole ia e hoʻonui i ke kālā no ka hoʻokō ʻana i ka piʻi ʻana o nā kumukūʻai hana e like me ka wahie.
No laila, i ka lele ʻana o nā kumukūʻai wahie mokulele, ʻoi aku ma mua o ka pālua ʻana mai $1.86 no ke galani i ka hoʻomaka ʻana o 2007 a i $3.96 no ke galani i Mei, ua laka ʻia nā mokulele i loko o ke kālā like. Ua hoʻokiʻekiʻe kekahi mau mea lawe i nā kumukūʻai, akā ʻaʻole hiki ke mālama i ke kumukūʻai o ka wahie.
"He mau makahiki ia mai ka wā i hoʻololi ai mākou i ka loaʻa kālā," wahi a ka Pelekikena Air Midwest Greg Stephens.
Ua ʻōlelo ʻo Stephens, ua hoʻāʻo ʻo Air Midwest e haʻalele i kāna mau ala i kākoʻo ʻia ma East Coast i ka makahiki i hala aku nei e mālama i ke kālā, akā ua koi ka 'Oihana Hoʻokele iā ia e hoʻohanohano i kekahi o ia mau ʻaelike no kahi kokoke i 14 mau mahina no ka mea ʻaʻole hiki iā ia ke loaʻa kahi mea lawe moku e lawe. pau.
Ua hoʻomau ka hui i ka lilo kālā. I kēia manawa, koi ʻia ka makua ʻo Mesa Air Group Inc. e uku i $52.5 miliona no ka hoʻoponopono ʻana i kahi hoʻopiʻi me ka Hawaiian Airlines Inc. Ua ʻike pū ʻo Mesa ua makemake ʻo Delta Air Lines Inc. e hoʻopau i kahi ʻaelike he $20 miliona i ka mahina.
ʻAʻole hiki i ka hui ke kali hou, wahi a Stephens.
Ua hoʻoholo ʻo Mesa Air Group e pani i ka Air Midwest, e kāpae ana i ka lawelawe i 20 mau kūlanakauhale ma 10 mau mokuʻāina i ka hopena o Iune. Ua ʻōlelo ʻo Stephens ʻaʻole paha e hoʻi hou ʻo Mesa i nā mokulele kōkua.
"Ke ho'āʻo nei mākou e ulu i ka Air Midwest ma o EAS," wahi āna. Akā "ʻoi aku ka makemake o ka mea kūʻai aku e paʻi i ke alanui" a holo i kahi mokulele nui, ʻoiai ke kumukūʻai kiʻekiʻe. "ʻO ia kā mākou e hoʻokūkū nei."
Ke hakakā nei ka mea lawe moku ʻāina ʻo Colgan Air Inc. me kāna mau ʻaelike i kākoʻo ʻia e ke aupuni. Ua hoʻopuka ʻo ia i kahi poho hana o $4.5 miliona i ka makahiki 2007, ma kahi hapa ma muli o ka piʻi ʻana o nā kumukūʻai wahie.
"Ma nā wahi he nui i loaʻa iā mākou ka lawelawe EAS, ke nānā nei mākou i nā kumukūʻai wahie o $ 5 a me $ 6 i ke galani," wahi a Joe Williams, he waha ʻōlelo no Colgan makua Pinnacle Airlines Corp. o Memphis, Tenn. "ʻAʻohe mea i ʻike i kēia hiki mai ʻelua. makahiki aku nei."
Ke hoʻāʻo nei ka mokulele e hoʻololi i ka loaʻa kālā ma ka hoʻoneʻe ʻana i kekahi o kāna mau mokulele mai Pittsburgh a i Washington's Dulles International Airport a ma ka hāʻawi ʻana i nā huakaʻi i nā pilina hou aku ma o ka ʻaelike kaʻana like me United Airlines.
Ua noi aku nei ʻo Colgan e haʻalele i nā ʻaelike e lawelawe ana i nā kūlanakauhale ʻeono ma West Virginia, Maine a me Pennsylvania, akā ke manaʻo nei ʻo ia e hoʻopaʻa hou i kēlā mau ʻaelike a noi aku i kahi haʻawina nui aʻe e hōʻike i ka piʻi ʻana o nā kumukūʻai wahie.
ʻO ia wale nō ke ala e hiki ai i kahi mokulele ke hoʻoponopono i kahi ʻaelike kālā no nā kumukūʻai kiʻekiʻe - e noi e haʻalele i kāna kuleana, e kali i nā lā 180 i ka wā e noʻonoʻo ai ke keʻena i ka noi a laila hoʻopaʻa hou no ka ʻaelike, wahi a Malarkey.
"ʻO ia wale nō ka mea ʻino loa āu e hana ai i ka lawelawe," wahi āna. “Ua hoʻoikaika ʻoe i ke kaiāulu. ʻAʻole maopopo iā lākou. Me he mea lā e haʻalele ana ka mokulele iā lākou. "
Ua kāhea ka Regional Airline Association i nā hoʻololi i ka papahana kōkua no nā makahiki he nui, i ʻole e hakakā nā mokulele i ka hoʻolilo ʻana i nā mokulele kuaʻāina. Ua ʻōlelo ʻo Malarkey e hoʻonui ke Keʻena ʻOihana i ke kālā e ʻae i nā palena kālā kiʻekiʻe a hāʻawi i nā mokulele i hāʻawi manawa hoʻokahi e uku no ka piʻi ʻana o nā kumukūʻai wahie.
Ua ʻōlelo ka ʻōlelo a ke Keʻena ʻOihana e ʻae ka ʻoihana i ka pono o ka hoʻoponopono akā ʻaʻole makemake i ka hoʻokumu ʻana i nā haʻawina maʻalahi e hōʻike i ka piʻi ʻana o ke kumukūʻai. ʻO kāna hopena ʻo ka kaupalena ʻana i nā haʻawina i nā kaiāulu kaʻawale loa.
"Pono ka hoʻoponopono EAS e hōʻoia i ka lawelawe ʻana o ka papahana i ka poʻe i hoʻolālā ʻia e lawelawe - ka poʻe i loaʻa ʻole nā koho huakaʻi ʻē aʻe," i ʻōlelo ʻia e ka ʻōlelo a Bill Mosely.
Ua hoʻokumu ʻia ka papahana Essential Air Service he 30 mau makahiki i hala ma hope o ka hoʻopau ʻia ʻana o ka ʻoihana mokulele. ʻAʻole e lele nā mea lawe i nā ala pono ʻole i nā kaiāulu liʻiliʻi, no laila ua ʻae ke aupuni pekelala e uku i kekahi o kā lākou mau koina.
Manaʻo nā kaiāulu iā lākou he laina ola. Paipai nā huakaʻi hāʻawi kālā i nā ʻoihana e hoʻonui i waho o nā kikowaena kūlanakauhale, a hāʻawi lākou i nā kamaʻāina i ke komo wikiwiki i nā kikowaena olakino a me nā ʻoihana mokulele honua ma nā kūlanakauhale nui.
"He mea pono ia, ʻaʻole ia he mea hoʻonani," wahi a W. Gary Edwards, he luna hoʻomalu o ke kūlanakauhale ma Massena, NY, kahi kaiāulu o kahi 11,500 kokoke i ka palena ʻo US-Canada. Ua ʻōlelo ʻo Edwards ua huki ʻo Big Sky Airlines mai ke kūlanakauhale i Nowemapa, a ke kali nei ʻo Massena i ka lawelawe hou mai Capital Air Services Inc. e hoʻomaka i Kepakemapa.
"Aia mākou ma ka piko o ka moku'āina o New York," wahi a Edwards. “ʻAʻohe o mākou alahele ʻehā. ʻO ko mākou mau alanui a pau ma luna nei he mau alanui ʻāina.
Ua hoʻopaʻa ʻia ʻo Prescott, ke kapikala mua o Arizona, ma waena o nā ululāʻau aupuni ma kahi o 100 mau mile ma ka ʻākau o Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.
Ua ulu ʻo ia i puʻuhonua no ka poʻe hoʻomaha waiwai, e hoʻowalewale iā lākou i waho o nā kūlanakauhale me kāna ʻōlelo hoʻohiki i nā hiʻohiʻona mauna, nā ala hele wāwae a me ka ea maʻemaʻe. Ma kahi o 129,000 poʻe e noho nei i loko o 20 mau mile mai ke kahua mokulele ʻo Prescott - lawa ka manaʻo i ka lawelawe ea maikaʻi, wahi a Gary Buck, ka pelekikena a me ka Luna Nui o kahi hui ʻenehana ʻike ma ke kūlanakauhale.
"I kēia manawa, loaʻa iā ʻoe kahi koho e lawe i kahi kaʻa kaʻa mokulele i Phoenix, a i ʻole hiki iā ʻoe ke hoʻokele pololei," wahi a Buck. “Ma kahi o ʻelua hola i kēlā me kēia ala. He ʻeha wale nō ia.”
ʻO ka hui ʻo Buck, ʻo Visual Pathways Inc., koi iā ia e huakaʻi i waho o ke kūlanakauhale ma kahi o ʻehā manawa o ka mahina a lawe mai i nā mea kūʻai aku ʻelua a ʻekolu manawa i ka mahina. Ua lele ʻo ia i Air Midwest, ʻoiai ʻaʻole hilinaʻi ka lawelawe. ʻO ka manawa hope loa i hāʻawi aku ai ʻo Buck i kāna mau hoʻolālā huakaʻi i ka mea lawe, ua hoʻi ʻo ia ma ke kaʻa.
"Ua ʻōlelo lākou he hewa mechanical," wahi āna. "'Ōlelo mau lākou pēlā."
Ua ʻōlelo ʻo Buck, pono ʻo Prescott i nā mea lawe like ʻole, kēlā me kēia hoʻokūkū no ka ʻoihana.
He manaʻolana lōʻihi paha kēlā, no ke kumukūʻai o ka wahie a me ke kūlana o ka ʻoihana mokulele. Akā ua ʻōlelo nā luna o Prescott e mālama lākou i kā lākou hoʻolālā e hoʻonui i ke alahele a noi i nā mea lawe moku ʻē aʻe e lele i ka mokulele.
Ua hāʻawi pū aku ʻo Great Lakes Aviation e pani i ka Air Midwest, a ma Kepakemapa, ua manaʻo ʻia ʻo Horizon Airlines e hoʻihoʻi i nā mokulele kalepa i Prescott me ka lawelawe ʻana i ke kahua mokulele ʻo Los Angeles International.
Me ka lawelawe ʻole ʻana o ka ea, "e noho anei nā kānaka ma ʻaneʻi?" Wahi a Meia Wilson. "ʻAʻole. Inā nalowale mākou i ka mokulele, hoʻomaka mākou e nalowale i nā kānaka. Ua nalowale mākou i nā ʻoihana. "
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