Big Sky Airlines was an American commuter air carrier that operated from 1978 to 2008. Headquartered in Billings,

Montana Montana () is a state in the Mountain West division of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North Dakota and South Dakota to the east, Wyoming to the south, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Colu ...

, United States. Big Sky was wholly owned by Big Sky Transportation Company, which in turn was a wholly owned subsidiary of MAIR Holdings. Big Sky operated scheduled commuter passenger services to ten cities and maintained a hub at

Billings Logan International Airport Billings Logan International Airport is in the western United States, northwest of downtown Billings, in Yellowstone County, Montana. It is the second largest airport in Montana, having been surpassed in recent years by Bozeman in bot ...

Billings, Montana Billings is the largest city in the U.S. state of Montana, with a population of 117,116 as of the 2020 census. Located in the south-central portion of the state, it is the seat of Yellowstone County and the principal city of the Billings Met ...

, from which the airline flew more of its nonstop routes than it did from any other airport. The airline was a crucial air link within the state of Montana, serving as the primary (and in some cases, only) commercial air carrier to several small airports in the state. The airline also began and ended service to a number of other locations over the years, often operating as a contract carrier under the federal government's Essential Air Service (EAS) program.

History

The airline was established in 1978 and started operations on September 15, 1978, initially operating to a number of small cities in eastern and central Montana formerly served by the original

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. This remained the core of the company's business throughout its history, although the airline also expanded into a number of other geographic areas over the years. Most of the later expansions proved to be short-lived, however. In 1987, Big Sky was operating code sharing service as

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on behalf of

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from a hub in Billings with

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BAe Jetstream 31 propjets. The Jetstream turboprops were then replaced with Swearingen Metroliner propjets on the Northwest Airlink service. Big Sky took over Exec Express II d/b/a Lone Star Airlines/ Aspen Mountain Air's EAS routes in October 1998, following the bankruptcy of this Texas-based commuter air carrier. Transfer of services was completed in December 1998. These routes included: Dallas/Ft. Worth-Brownwood, TX; Dallas/Ft. Worth-Enid/Ponca City, OK; Dallas/Ft. Worth-Hot Springs-Harrison-Mountain Home, AR-St. Louis, MO; and Dallas/Ft. Worth-El Dorado-Jonesboro, AR. On October 21, 2000, Big Sky began new service between Montana and north Texas via southeastern New Mexico with a Dallas/Ft. Worth-Hobbs-Carlsbad-Roswell-Denver-Billings route. This service was later modified to Dallas/Ft. Worth-Carlsbad-Roswell and Dallas/Ft. Worth-Brownwood-Hobbs routes. All New Mexico service ended in 2001. In late 2002, Big Sky Airlines was operating nonstop flights between Idaho Falls, Idaho and

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but then cancelled this service three months afterward, declaring it unprofitable. In early 2005, Big Sky announced several changes concerning its service including the termination of flights to

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as well as the replacement of its Fairchild Metroliner propjets with Beechcraft 1900D turboprops with the latter being leased from Mesa Air Group subsidiary Air Midwest. Service from Sheridan, Wyoming to both Denver and Billings began by the end of 2005 but was then terminated in January 2008. In February 2006 Big Sky began daily service between

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and Boise (BOI). Service ceased with the airline's bankruptcy in 2007. In July 2006, Big Sky announced that the airline would discontinue service to

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;

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; and

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. The airline also announced that one of their Beechcraft 1900D's would be leased to

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in Florida. On September 1, 2006, Big Sky discontinued service to

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. On December 21, 2006, a press release announced that Big Sky would become a

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carrier via a

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agreement with

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using eight Beechcraft 1900D turboprops operated from Boston's

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(BOS). The airline's east coast operations ended on January 7, 2008.

Closure

On December 20, 2007, Big Sky announced that it would more than likely cease operations within 60 to 90 days. This was due to the loss of the Delta contract, unusually bad weather, disappointing revenue and record-high fuel prices. The remaining Beechcraft 1900D aircraft were planned to be auctioned off and proceeds returned to MAIR holdings stockholders. In late 2007

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was given

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approval to take over EAS service to and from Billings, Montana and seven other Montana cities currently served by Big Sky. Great Lakes Airlines began flying the routes in 2009, only to be replaced with

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(now named

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) by the Montana Essential Air Service Task Force in January 2011. The Montana routes were replaced once again by

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on December 10, 2013. Big Sky's final scheduled flights arrived in Billings on the morning of March 8, 2008; that morning, the three final flights marked the end of the airline by performing a joint flyover of the Billings airport prior to landing. The airline's website
www.bigskyair.com
has been deactivated.

Destinations: Western and Central U.S.

Big Sky served the following destinations at different times during its existence. Destination information is taken from various Big Sky Airlines route maps:

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* Jonesboro * Mountain Home

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* Lewiston

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* Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport

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– Hub *

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* Glendive ( Dawson Community Airport) *

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(

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) * Lewistown Municipal Airport * Miles City Airport * Missoula International Airport * Sidney ( Richland Municipal Airport) * Wolf Point ( L. M. Clayton Airport)

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* Carlsbad * Hobbs *

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* Bismarck * Devils Lake * Dickinson * Grand Forks * Jamestown * Williston

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* Enid *

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* Rapid City

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* Brownwood *

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– Hub Washington *

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(

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) * Seattle/Tacoma International Airport *

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* Walla Walla * Olympia Regional Airport Wyoming * Casper *

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* Sheridan County Airport

Delta Connection Routes: Eastern U.S. and Canada

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* Boston, Massachusetts – Hub

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, Canada

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/ Islip,

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* Cincinnati, Ohio – Hub

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/ Easton,

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, Canada

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Fleet

In January 2000, the Big Sky Airlines fleet consisted of 14

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Metro III and Metro 23 aircraft. However, the air carrier then removed the Metro propjets from its fleet and in January 2008 was operating Beechcraft 1900D turboprops with 10 aircraft in the fleet: Big Sky previously operated

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propjets as well as

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prop aircraft during the late 1970s. By 1987, the airline was operating

BAe Jetstream 31 propjets on its flights as a

air carrier.http://www.airliners.net, photos of Big Sky Airlines aircraft

Code share agreements

Big Sky had

agreements with the following airlines. The code share agreements allowed these larger mainline air carriers to place their airline codes on Big Sky flights, but not vice versa. *

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(as

) *

(as

) *

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References

External links

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