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, in

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. The airport has scheduled passenger service subsidized by the U.S. Federal Government's

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program as well as regular sightseeing flights. The

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categorized it as a ''primary commercial service'' airport.

History

The Page Airport was officially named the "Royce K Knight Field" on July 14, 1988 in recognition of the man who started the Page Airport during the construction of the Glen Canyon Dam. Knight ran the FBO, which offered scenic flights over the Grand Canyon and Lake Powell areas.

Facilities and aircraft

Page Municipal Airport covers at an

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of . It has two asphalt

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s: * 15/33 is * 7/25 is In the year ending December 30, 2018; the airport had 16,341 aircraft operations, average 45 per day: 51%

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, 46%

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, 2% airline and <1% military. 75 aircraft were then based at this airport: 76% single-engine, 19% multi-engine, 3%

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, and 2% jet. The airport is an

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that has no control tower. The Page Airport was officially named the "Royce K Knight Field" on July 14, 1988 in recognition of the man who started the airport during the construction of the Glen Canyon Dam. Royce ran the FBO which offered scenic flights over the Grand Canyon and Lake Powell areas.

Airlines and destinations

Contour Airlines operates

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regional jets on all of its scheduled passenger flights serving the airport.

Historical airline service

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began serving Page during the early 1960s with 40-passenger

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turboprops with daily direct service to

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via a stop at the

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via a stop in Cedar City, Utah. Bonanza then merged with

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and West Coast Airlines to form Air West which in 1968 was continuing to serve Page with daily direct F-27 flights to Phoenix via stops at the Grand Canyon airport and Prescott as well as direct to Salt Lake City via Cedar City. Air West then changed its name to

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which in 1972 was operating daily direct F-27 service to

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via Grand Canyon airport and also direct to Salt Lake City via Cedar City on a daily basis. By 1975, Hughes Airwest had introduced direct F-27 service on the weekdays to Los Angeles International Airport via stops at Grand Canyon, Las Vegas and

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as well as continuing to operate direct service to Salt Lake City via Cedar City. In 1977, Hughes Airwest was flying non-stop F-27 service to Phoenix on a weekday basis in addition to the direct flight to Salt Lake City via Cedar City and had turned over the Las Vegas service to SkyWest Airlines which was operating

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twin prop aircraft on the route with non-stop flights. Hughes Airwest then discontinued all service into the airport and was no longer serving Page by 1980. Following the cessation of service by Hughes Airwest, SkyWest Airlines, operating as an independent commuter air carrier, was providing non-stop service with

prop aircraft to Las Vegas and Phoenix.

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also flew nonstop service to Las Vegas on a seasonal basis during the late 1970s. By June 1, 1986, SkyWest was operating all service into Page as Western Express via a code sharing agreement with

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flying 19-passenger

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propjets direct to Phoenix via a stop in Flagstaff and also non-stop to

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. Following the acquisition of Western by

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on April 1, 1987, SkyWest began serving Page as a

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air carrier via a code sharing agreement with Delta with Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner propjets flying the same routes previously operated as Western Express. By 1995, SkyWest operating as the Delta Connection was operating three roundtrip non-stop flights a day with Metroliner aircraft between Page and Phoenix. In 1996 Great Lakes Airlines began serving the Page–Phoenix route with 19-seat Beechcraft 1900 commuter turboprops. The following year Scenic Airlines began serving Page once again and was flying the Page–Phoenix route with Cessna and Beechcraft 1900 aircraft. In 1998, Scenic was serving Page via a code sharing agreement with Delta Air Lines. In 1999 Sunrise Airlines took over the service flying three roundtrip non-stops a day between Page and Phoenix as an independent commuter air carrier with Piper Navajo aircraft. Great Lakes returned to Page in 2001, first operating flights to Phoenix as

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on behalf of

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via a code sharing agreement but then reverted to the independent Great Lakes banner the following year. Since then additional flights were operated at times to Denver, Las Vegas, and Farmington, NM before Great Lakes ceased all service and went out of business on March 26, 2018. The current provider, Contour Airlines, began service by fall, 2018.http://www.departedflights.com, June 1, 1999 Official Airline Guide (OAG), Phoenix–Page flight schedules Contour also had service to Las Vegas and Grand Canyon Airlines (formerly Scenic Airlines) had service to Boulder City, NV prior to the start of the pandemic in early 2020.

Statistics

References

Other sources

* Essential Air Service documents
Docket OST-1997-2694
from the

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: *
Order 2005-3-16 (March 9, 2005)
selecting Great Lakes Aviation, Ltd. to provide essential air service at Kingman, Prescott, Page, and Show Low for a new two-year period, at a combined first-year subsidy of $3,840,959, and a combined second-year subsidy of $3,854,958. *
Order 2007-6-10 (June 13, 2007)
selecting Great Lakes Aviation, Ltd. to provide subsidized EAS at Page and Show Low, Arizona, for two years, with the new contract term beginning when Air Midwest inaugurates service at Kingman and Prescott. The annual subsidy rates for Page and Show Low will be $1,497,556 and $988,181, respectively. Page will receive 19 weekly nonstop round trips to Phoenix with the option to provide one more frequency during peak times and one fewer during non peaks. One round trip a day may be substituted to either Las Vegas (nonstop) or Denver (one-stop) with no change in subsidy. Show Low will receive 14 nonstop round trips per week to Phoenix with 19-passenger Beechcraft 1900D aircraft. *
Order 2009-8-5 (August 10, 2009)
re-selecting Great Lakes Aviation, Ltd. to provide essential air service at Page and Show Low, Arizona, at annual subsidy rates of $1,995,273 and $1,407,255, respectively, and for a 19-month period from October 1, 2009, through April 30, 2011. *
Order 2011-3-4 (March 1, 2011)
re-selecting Great Lakes Aviation, Ltd. to provide essential air service at Kingman, Page, Prescott, and Show Low, Arizona for the two-year period from May 1, 2011, to April 30, 2013, for a combined annual subsidy of $5,596,114. *
Order 2013-6-1 (June 3, 2013)
re-selecting Great Lakes Aviation, Ltd. to provide Essential Air Service at Kingman, Page, Prescott, and Show Low, Arizona, for the two-year period from May 1, 2013, through April 30, 2015, for a combined annual subsidy of $7,873,533. Subsidy for Page: $2,472,028. Service from Page is to Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX), with an option that one round trip a day may be substituted to either Denver International Airport (DEN) or Las Vegas McCarran International Airport (LAS). *
Order 2013-6-9
approving the request of Great Lakes Aviation, Ltd. to change part of its service pattern at Page, Arizona to include the option of serving Los Angeles International Airport effective March 1, 2013, through April 30, 2013.

External links

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