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The new Essential Air Service contract also retains SkyWest Airlines' minimum 12 weekly flights to and from Denver in place since February 2018, North Platte Airport Authority leaders said.
Sam Seafeldt, who had succeeded retiring longtime North Platte Regional Airport Manager Mike Sharkey in 2018, resigned to become “reliever airports manager” for six airfields surrounding Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
The timing of the Federal Aviation Administration's decision on North Platte's Essential Air Service subsidy contract isn't clear, Airport Manager Sam Seafeldt said Thursday.
Incumbent SkyWest would keep flying 14 flights a week between North Platte and Denver, while Ravn Alaska hopes for federal Essential Air Service approval after being denied in 2022.
The restaurant at the North Platte Regional Airport is undergoing renovation.