SeaPort launches Arkansas service - San Francisco Business Times:

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The airline has landed a federakl air service contract to servw four Arkansas communities from a hubin Memphis, SeaPort will receive slightly more than $6 millioh over two years. SeaPort will serve leisurs and business travelers through threedailyg round-trip flights weekdays and three round-triop flights weekends to Jonesboro, El Dorado, Harrison, and Hot The flights begin this fall. SeaPort won the contractt over severalother airlines. The agreemenrt is SeaPort’s first expansion outside the Pacific It now flies to andfrom Seattle, Pendleton, Astoria and Newport. The Arkansae contract is similar to recent ventures SeaPort hasenterefd into.
In October, SeaPort landee a two-year contract in which it will bepaid $3.2 milliojn in federal subsidies over two year to provide three daily flights between Portlanr and Pendleton. The contract which can be renewed once is part ofthe ’s “essential air program aimed at keeping commercial airlines at small airports. This SeaPort was awarded a two-year contract to offe three flights a day to Astoria and two a day to SeaPort fliesa small, propeller-driven aircraft — the nine-seat Pilatu s PC-12. The privately held company doesn’tg disclose revenue.