Airport News
A Semi-Annual Publication
January 2007
A Trio of Flights into Dickinson
The Dickinson Theodore Roosevelt Regional Airport has been granted a
third commercial flight through the Essential Air Service program.
The flight is scheduled to start
service in the beginning
of February. The flight is
currently available for
booking through travel
agencies, on major
travel websites along
with the Great Lakes
Aviation website
www.greatlakesav.com.
The third flight will be a
late afternoon flight that
will be depart Dickinson at 4:56pm. The
increased air service will also allow for
an additional Sunday morning flight.
With the option of a third flight
to Denver the quality of service out of
Dickinson will increase greatly. Travelers
will have more options when selecting
flights out of Dickinson. With the increase in available seats the passenger
will have more freedom to select what
day they would like to travel and at what
times. The third flight also brings much
needed redundancy of air service to
Dickinson. If there is any weather or mechanical delays passenger now have
more options right out of Dickinson
rather than traveling to
Bismarck to catch a
flight.
The coming of the
third flight in February
was the hard work of
many. The President of
Great Lakes, Doug Voss,
was able to reschedule
his very busy aircraft to
allow us to have a Brazilia for all three
flights. He also found ways to bring the
cost down dramatically to help secure
the flight. All the support showed by the
community and the DMAA showed the
DOT that the third flight is needed and
will be utilized. Most of all our congressional delegation lead the charge by applying pressure in Washington D.C.
Inside this
issue:
The Roughriders- Civil Air
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Ticket Purchasing 101
2
DAS’s New
3
Flight Instructor
Dickinson Airport Economic
3
2006 Project
Wrap-up
3
Dickinson Airport in 2006
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Landings
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Matthew’s official start date as
manager was July 31st. However before
that Matthew was the intern for the airport under the guidance of former
manager, Charity Speich. Matthew is
excited to start his career in Dickinson,
“ I’m excited to have this great opportunity. There are many projects and tasks
complete and I have a good board to
help and guide me”
Matthew is a graduate of the
University of North Dakota. He has a
Bachelors of Business Administration
5,778 Commercial
Passenger
New Airport Manager
Matthew Remynse is the new
manager of the Dickinson Theodore
Roosevelt Regional Airport.
1,191 commercial
Boarded
with a major in Airport
Management. While
attending UND Matthew was involved with
AAAE, a professional
organization geared
toward airport professionals. He was also a
student ambassador,
member of Greeks In
Action and a member of the Beta Theta Pi
fraternity where he held two leadership
positions. Matthew is originally from
Lansford , ND where his parents and one
brother still live. If you are out at the airport swing in and say hello.
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5,814 Commercial
Passengers Deplaned
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New ARFF Truck
& Building
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New Markings
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New Fencing
The Roughriders– The Civil Air Patrol of Dickinson
The Civil Air Patrol is a non-profit organization
comprised of over 56,000 members. They provide
95% of the inland search and rescue in the U.S.,
along with aerial reconnaissance for homeland
security, disaster relief, damage assessment,
transportation of time sensitive medical material,
and provide counter drug missions. They
are an auxiliary branch of the United
States Air Force and have eight regions in
the US. In those eight regions are 52
wings with 1,700 squadrons. One of those
1,700 squadrons is the Roughrider Composite Squadron and they call the Dickinson Theodore Roosevelt Regional Airport
home.
The Roughrider Squadron in Dickinson
has twenty three proud young cadets, ranging in
age from 12-18 years old. The twenty three cadets
are lead by Commander Jerry Mayer, along with
his staff of eight senior volunteers. The squadron
has six licensed pilots which are all qualified for
search and rescue operations.
The roughriders average 100-150 operations per year
conducting flight lessons, orientation flights, and search and
rescue operations. The squadron conducts their operations in
a single engine Cessna 182. The aircraft in the ND State wing
are exchanged on a semi-annual basis. In the future the
Roughriders hope to obtain a Cessna with a glass cockpit. A
glass cockpit is a fully digital display with all the
aircrafts instruments on two small screens.
This past year the squadron participated in three
different search and rescue operations. The first
was for a missing women near Richardton. The second was for a missing man near Watford City and
the most recent was the search for the missing pilot
near Jamestown.
The squadron meets every Tuesday night to train
young cadets about aviation and more importantly leadership.
The Roughriders also participate in simulated search and rescue exercises twice a year. They also assist the airport with
the annual fly-in, Planes on the Prairie in August. For more
information on the Civil Air Patrol you can visit their website
www.cap.gov or contact Jerry Mayer.
Ticket Purchasing 101-Adapted article written By Monica Taylor, Great Lakes Airlines
Today purchasing airline
tickets can be as simple as a few
clicks of the mouse, but are you
really getting the best possible price?
There are many more options to purchase tickets rather than booking
through the major airline websites.
Let’s examine a few of the other options.
If you are traveling to only
one destination you will most likely
find the lowest fares by logging on to
the website (or call the reservation
center) of the airline of your choice
and purchasing the ticket there. If
you are traveling beyond your first
stop you have the option to purchase
directly through the airlines website.
While this may be a convenient way
to purchase your ticket, it may not
be the most cost-effective buy. Understand that your first stop is normally a hub, and at hubs you are not
limited to just one airline. Airlines, in
order to save money have agreements with one another, and can
transfer your bag to your connecting
day you would like to fly out. These
engines may even have better
Another option for trips with a
prices then the airline website.
connecting flight would be to check
the price on “the sum of two locals”.
If you’d like the easiest way
The sum of two locals is purchasing
to purchase a ticket, contact your
two different tickets, one ticket from
local travel agent. They are knowlyour starting point to the hub and the edgeable travel professionals and
other ticket is the hub
will do all of this reto your final destinasearch for a small
tion. This might reservice fee. You will
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be benefiting your
and research on your
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this scenario you don’t
Seasoned
have to worry about
travelers understand
your luggage as they
that in order to get
will be transferred to
the best price on an
your connection.
airline ticket you
carrier, which is less hassle for you.
Another option
that has become quite popular is the
online booking engines such as Expedia, Travelocity or Orbitz. These
booking engines will provide you
many different options from the airline you can fly with, to the time of
need to know where
to start, be flexible, do the research
and shop around for the best fares.
I hope this has given you the
knowledge needed to utilize your
local air service.
For any question regarding the newsletter please contact airport manager Matthew Remynse @ 483-1062
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Airport News
Dickinson Air Service’s New Flight Instructor
Mark
Monasky
was hired
this past
June. Mark
is originally
from Bismarck, ND.
He graduated from the University of North
Dakota Aerospace program where
he earned his commercial license
with single and multi engine ratings, an instrument rating and certified flight instructor (CFI and CFII)
ratings. Currently mark has approximately 500 hours and is working toward that elusive right seat.
He currently has 3 students all trying to become private pilots. Mark
provides flight instruction in a
Cessna 172 and a Piper Cherokee.
Along with flight instructing
DAS provides many services to the
local and transient pilot. Pat Giese,
the owner of DAS, provides charter
service to anywhere you want to go
in his Beechcraft Baron. DAS goes
above and beyond to outfit their customers with just about anything they
need or desire. For more information
on flight instructing or the services
DAS provides contact them at 4834221 or
www.dickinsonairservice.com
Economic Impact– 30.6 Million Dollars
By Mark J. Holzer, North Dakota Aeronautics Commission
The North Dakota Aeronautics Commission released the aviation
impact of the Dickinson regional airport this fall. The economic impact
of airline service, general aviation flying, air cargo packages, and local
travel agencies totaled $30.6 million
of expenditures annually using a
2004 snapshot. . Jobs in aviation
totaled 610 that included the indirect
benefits of an additional job induced
by the aviation industries. Travel
agencies attributed to 77% of the local
employment in aviation.
other expenditures. The average air
traveler spent $710 dollars per trip
with 58% of the flyers surveyed were
non-local to the region. Tourism and
convention/visitors utilize the airline
service daily.
The use of general aviation
flying also creates local airport jobs but
also contributes to off airport employment. Air freight services fly 20
weekly flights and these packages are
loaded into vans that deliver oil parts,
medical supplies, legal documents and
farm parts to entire southwestern ND
area. General aviation business flying
of oil companies, pheasant hunters,
manufacturing firms, flying doctors all
use general aviation aircraft.
The Dickinson Regional Airport
impacts annually $30 million in dollars
and 610 jobs circulating the regions
economy.
The commercial airline visitor
attributed significantly with $5.2 million in expenditures in the region at
hotels, restaurants, car rentals, and
2006 Project Wrap-up
In the past year the airport has
taken on various projects to improve the overall safety of the airport. They have included new perimeter fencing, a new seal coat for
New ARFF Building
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the airfield, an Airport Rescue and
Fire Fighting building (ARFF), and a
shining new Rosenbauer fire truck
to go along with it.
The biggest improvement for
safety is the addition of the ARFF
building and new Rosenbauer Airwolf crash and rescue vehicle. The
new building was finished in late
June. The building has a training
room and an office. The main purpose of the building will be to house
the operations department for the
airport along with holding the
monthly board meetings. The new
Rosenbauer Fire truck holds 500
gallons of water. It is equipped with
foam and dry chemical systems. The
truck is able to dispense 350 gallons
of water per minute! The airport will
start staffing the truck for all commercial flights in June, 2007.
Other improvement included
the finishing of the perimeter fencing. This was completed late this
summer, with the repositioning of
the turnstile for the General Aviation
Ramp. The final project for 2006 was
the seal coat and new markings for
the airfield. This will help preserve
the runways and taxiways for many
years to come.
Airport News
Dickinson’ New Aircraft Rescue and
Fire Fighting Truck!!
Phone:
701-483-1062
Fax:
701-483-1072
Email:
[email protected]
11120 42nd St SW, Suite A
Dickinson, ND 58601
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