PORT ANGELES — A proposed community task force to recruit a new airline to William R. Fairchild International Airport hasn’t been organized yet, but Port commissioners are optimistic that Horizon Air will be replaced.
“Deputy Port Director Dave Hagiwara and Airport Manager Jeff Robb are talking with other carriers,” Port Executive Director Clyde Boddy told the Port commissioners at their Monday meeting.
“We are actively working on it,” he said.
He didn’t name the carriers that have been contacted.
Horizon announced last week that it would stop passenger airline service out of Port Angeles effective Jan. 7.
The airline said it was losing money on flights between Port Angeles and Seattle.
Other sources said Horizon wanted to deploy airplanes assigned to Port Angeles to provide regional service for Frontier Airlines’ JetExpress service out of Denver. The Frontier-Horizon deal was signed in September and begins Jan. 1.
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The rest of the story appears in the Tuesday Peninsula Daily News.
