Air Midwest: from corpses to collapse

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Everything's not up to date in Salina, Visalia, and Kingman. They're among the cities, or rather towns, that will have little or dramatically changed air service now that Mesa is shutting down its Air Midwest unit. The parent company, Phoenix-based Mesa Air group, said it January it would probably get rid of the airline, selling or liquidating it, and now it is doing just that. The Beech 1900D carrier, which was first started 43 years ago to carry human remains in Kansas, has becoming essentially an EAS carrier, but even with subsidy couldn't make ends meet with its little planes and thin routes.

 

 

It ends its eastern service first, leaving Dubois and Franklin/Oil City, Pa., this month. Gulfstream International will replace it on those routes. And Great Lakes will replace it on other routes such as McCook, Nebraska, to Omaha or Ely, Nevada, to Las Vegas. But the most interesting replacement: Joplin, Mo; Grand Island, Neb., and both Harrison and Hot Springs, Arkansas, will lose Air Midwest but get service from Island Air. That's curious. Despite the name, there aren't any islands out there. But Island Air is from Hawaii; it wanted to diversify and thinks it can turn a profit on those routes. Island Air  will link Kansas City International with those towns starting within 90 days. Ah the swaying palms and silver sands....

 

  

 

 

 

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