Great Lakes Airlines

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Great Lakes Airlines
IATA
ZK		 ICAO
GLA		 Callsign
LAKES AIR
Founded 1977
Hubs Denver International Airport
Kansas City International Airport
Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport
Lambert-Saint Louis International Airport
Focus cities Albuquerque International Sunport
Cheyenne Regional Airport
General Mitchell International Airport
Fleet size 35
Destinations 40
Parent company Great Lakes Aviation, Ltd.
Headquarters Cheyenne, Wyoming
Key people Doug Voss and
Ivan Simpson
(Co-Founders)
Website: http://www.flygreatlakes.com

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, and aircraft bases at Kansas City International Airport, Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport and Lambert-St. Louis International Airport.[1] Great Lakes has focus cities in Albuquerque, New Mexico and Cheyenne, Wyoming.

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[edit] 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. Great Lakes Airlines has recently been given DOT approval to take over EAS service to Billings, Montana from seven other Montana cities formerly served by Big Sky Airlines. [2]

[edit] Destinations

Great Lakes airlines flies to the following domestic scheduled destinations (as of February 2008): [3]

[edit] Terminated Destinations

[edit] Fleet

The Great Lakes Airlines fleet includes the following aircraft (as of MAY 2008) [1] :

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b "Directory: World Airlines", Flight International, 2007-04-03, pp. 87-88. 
  2. ^ Great Lakes prepares for Montana routes, Sidney Herald, <http://www.sidneyherald.com/articles/2007/12/30/news/news01.txt>. Retrieved on 9 January 2008 
  3. ^ http://www.flygreatlakes.com/PDF/Time%20Table/ZK_TIMETABLE.pdf

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