GREAT LAKES AIRLINES

'Great Lakes Airlines', formerly 'Great Lakes Aviation', is an American airline based in Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA. It is a regional airline operating domestic scheduled and charter services. Its main base is Cheyenne Regional Airport, with a hub at Denver International Airport.^[1]

Contents

History

Destinations

Fleet

References

External links

History

The airline was established by Doug Voss and Ivan Simpson and started operations on April 5, 1977. It began scheduled services on October 12, 1981 with flights between Spencer, Iowa and Des Moines, Iowa. In February 1988, Great Lakes acquired Alliance Airlines, adding six cities around Lake Michigan to the route network. In the following years it continued to expand and in February 1992 signed a codesharing agreement with United Airlines. On January 19, 1994, the airline went public trading on the NASDAQ stock exchange. In October 1995, Great Lakes began operating under the Midway Connection banner at Raleigh/Durham through a marketing agreement with Midway Airlines, but this ceased in 1997. Its status with United Express was downgraded to a codeshare agreement in 2001 and on May 1, 2001 it became an independent carrier. Great Lakes has code sharing agreements with United Airlines and Frontier Airlines. The state of Wyoming heavily subsidizes Great Lakes, because it is the only airline serving six of the ten commercial airports in Wyoming. The airline is now headquartered in Cheyenne, Wyoming.^[2]

Destinations

Great Lakes airlines flies to the following domestic scheduled destinations (as of January 2007):

★ Arizona

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★ Kingman (Kingman Airport) ''Service ends September 30, 2007''

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★ Page (Page Municipal Airport)

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★ Phoenix (Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport)

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★ Prescott (Prescott Municipal Airport) ''Service ends September 30, 2007''

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★ Show Low (Show Low Regional Airport)

★ Colorado

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★ Alamosa (San Luis Valley Regional Airport)

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★ Cortez (Cortez Municipal Airport)

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★ Denver (Denver International Airport)

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★ Grand Junction (Walker Field Airport)

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★ Pueblo (Pueblo Memorial Airport)

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★ Telluride (Telluride Regional Airport)

★ Illinois

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★ Decatur (Decatur Airport) PENDING

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★ Marion (Williamson County Regional Airport) PENDING

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★ Quincy (Quincy Regional Airport) PENDING

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★ Springfield (Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport) PENDING

★ IOWA
Burlington COMING SOON

★ Kansas

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★ Dodge City (Dodge City Regional Airport)

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★ Garden City (Garden City Regional Airport)

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★ Hays (Hays Regional Airport)

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★ Liberal (Liberal Municipal Airport)

★ MISSOURI
Ft Leonard Wood COMING SOON

★ Nebraska

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★ Alliance (Alliance Municipal Airport)

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★ Chadron (Chadron Municipal Airport)

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★ Kearney (Kearney Municipal Airport)

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★ North Platte (North Platte Regional Airport)

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★ Scottsbluff (Western Nebraska Regional Airport)

★ New Mexico

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★ Albuquerque (Albuquerque International Sunport)

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★ Clovis (Clovis Municipal Airport)

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★ Farmington (Four Corners Regional Airport)

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★ Gallup (Gallup Municipal Airport)

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★ Santa Fe (Santa Fe Municipal Airport)

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★ Silver City (Grant County Airport)

★ North Dakota

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★ Dickinson (Dickinson Theodore Roosevelt Regional Airport)

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★ Williston (Sloulin Field International Airport)

★ South Dakota

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★ Aberdeen (Aberdeen Regional Airport)

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★ Brookings (Brookings Regional Airport)

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★ Huron (Huron Regional Airport)

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★ Pierre (Pierre Regional Airport)

★ Texas

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★ Amarillo (Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport) ''Service ends November 3, 2007''

★ Wyoming

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★ Cheyenne (Cheyenne Regional Airport)

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★ Gillette (Gillette-Campbell County Airport)

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★ Laramie (Laramie Regional Airport)

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★ Riverton (Riverton Regional Airport)

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★ Rock Springs (Rock Springs - Sweetwater County Airport)

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★ Sheridan (Sheridan County Airport)

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★ Worland (Worland Municipal Airport)

Fleet

The Great Lakes Airlines fleet includes the following aircraft (at March 2007) :

★ 4 Embraer EMB 120ER Brasilia

★ 2 Embraer EMB 120RT Brasilia

★ 23 Raytheon Beech 1900D Airliner
Beechcraft 99A - Destroyed August 17, 2004 when it struck a mountain near Great Falls, Montana on a mail flight at night. Other regns carried include N196HA, N17MV, C-GJEZ and N199GL.

References

1. Directory: World Airlines
2. Airline Pilot Central

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1010974/M/

External links

★ Great Lakes Airlines

★ Great Lakes Airlines Forum

★ Great Lakes Airlines Pictures