Great Lakes Airlines

Infobox Airline
airline = Great Lakes Airlines

logo_size = 147px
fleet_size = 36
destinations = 41
code_share_partners =
IATA = ZK
ICAO = GLA
callsign = LAKES AIR
parent = Great Lakes Aviation, Ltd.
founded = 1977
headquarters = Cheyenne, Wyoming
hubs = Denver International Airport
Kansas City International Airport
Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport
Lambert-Saint Louis International Airport
General Mitchell International Airport
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.cite news | title= Directory: World Airlines | work= Flight International | pages= 87-88 | date= 2007-04-03] Great Lakes has focus cities in Albuquerque, New Mexico and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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. [citation |title= Great Lakes prepares for Montana routes, . |url= http://www.sidneyherald.com/articles/2007/12/30/news/news01.txt |publisher= Sidney Herald |accessdate= 2008-01-09]

Destinations

Great Lakes airlines flies to the following domestic scheduled destinations (as of February 2008): [http://www.flygreatlakes.com/PDF/Time%20Table/ZK_TIMETABLE.pdf]

*Arizona
**Kingman (Kingman Airport) [begins TBA]
**Page (Page Municipal Airport)
**Phoenix (Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport) Hub
**Prescott (Ernest A. Love Field)
**Show Low (Show Low Regional Airport)

*Arkansas
**El Dorado (South Arkansas Regional Airport at Goodwin Field) [begins TBA]
**Harrison (Boone County Airport) [begins November, 2008]
**Hot Springs (Hot Springs Memorial Field Airport) [begins TBA]
**Jonesboro (Jonesboro Municipal Airport) [begins TBA]

*California
**Merced (Merced Municipal Airport)
**Ontario (LA/Ontario International Airport)
**Visalia (Visalia Municipal Airport)

*Colorado
**Alamosa (San Luis Valley Regional Airport)
**Cortez (Cortez Municipal Airport)
**Denver (Denver International Airport) Main Hub
**Pueblo (Pueblo Memorial Airport)
**Telluride (Telluride Regional Airport)

*Illinois
**Decatur (Decatur Airport)
**Marion (Williamson County Regional Airport)
**Quincy (Quincy Regional Airport)

*Iowa
**Burlington (Southeast Iowa Regional Airport)

*Kansas
**Dodge City (Dodge City Regional Airport)
**Garden City (Garden City Regional Airport)
**Great Bend (Great Bend Municipal Airport)
**Hays (Hays Regional Airport)
**Liberal (Liberal Mid-America Regional Airport)
**Manhattan (Manhattan Regional Airport)
**Salina (Salina Municipal Airport)

*Kentucky
**Owensboro (Owensboro-Daviess County Regional Airport) [begins late October, 2008]

*Michigan
**Ironwood (Gogebic-Iron County Airport)
**Manistee (Manistee County-Blacker Airport)

*Missouri
**Cape Girardeau (Cape Girardeau Regional Airport)
**Fort Leonard Wood (Waynesville Regional Airport at Forney Field)
**Joplin (Joplin Regional Airport) [begins September 2008]
**Kansas City (Kansas City International Airport) Hub
**St. Louis (Lambert-St. Louis International Airport) Hub

*Montana
**Billings (Billings Logan International Airport) [begins November, 2008]
**Glasgow (Glasgow Airport) [begins TBA]
**Glendive (Dawson Community Airport) [begins TBA]
**Havre (Havre City-County Airport) [begins TBA]
**Lewistown (Lewistown Municipal Airport)
**Miles City (Miles City Municipal Airport) [begins TBA]
**Sidney (Sidney-Richland Municipal Airport)
**Wolf Point (L.M. Clayton Airport) [begins TBA]

*Nebraska
**Alliance (Alliance Municipal Airport)
**Chadron (Chadron Municipal Airport)
**Kearney (Kearney Regional Airport)
**McCook (McCook Regional Airport)
**North Platte (North Platte Regional Airport)
**Scottsbluff (Western Nebraska Regional Airport)

*Nevada
**Ely (Ely Airport)
**Las Vegas (McCarran International Airport) [begins TBA]

*New Mexico
**Albuquerque (Albuquerque International Sunport)
**Clovis (Clovis Municipal Airport)
**Farmington (Four Corners Regional Airport)
**Silver City (Grant County Airport)

*North Dakota
**Dickinson (Dickinson Theodore Roosevelt Regional Airport)
**Williston (Sloulin Field International Airport)

*South Dakota
**Huron (Huron Regional Airport)
**Pierre (Pierre Regional Airport)

*Tennessee
**Jackson (McKellar-Sipes Regional Airport) [begins TBA]

*Texas
**Dallas/Ft. Worth (Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport) [begins TBA]

*Utah
**Moab (Canyonlands Field)
**Vernal (Vernal Regional Airport)

*Wisconsin
**Milwaukee (General Mitchell International Airport)
**Rhinelander (Rhinelander-Oneida County Airport)

*Wyoming
**Cheyenne (Cheyenne Regional Airport)
**Gillette (Gillette-Campbell County Airport)
**Laramie (Laramie Regional Airport)
**Riverton (Riverton Regional Airport)
**Rock Springs (Rock Springs - Sweetwater County Airport)
**Sheridan (Sheridan County Airport)
**Worland (Worland Municipal Airport)

Terminated Destinations

*Colorado
**Grand Junction (Grand Junction Regional Airport) [service to Denver was terminated when Frontier Airlines began serving the airport through Lynx Aviation]
*New Mexico
**Santa Fe (Santa Fe Municipal Airport) [originally had flights to Denver]

Fleet

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

*4 Embraer EMB 120ER Brasilia
*2 Embraer EMB 120RT Brasilia
*30 Raytheon Beech 1900D Airliner

References

External links

* [http://www.flygreatlakes.com/ Great Lakes Airlines]
* [http://www.readytocopy.com/ Great Lakes Airlines Forum]
* [http://pictures.readytocopy.com/ Great Lakes Airlines Pictures]