Future uncertain for Big Sky Airlines routes in Montana

“We could be out of business in 60 days,” he said. “This is a very sad day for Big Sky Airlines.”

It’s too soon to know what Wednesday’s announcement that Big Sky Airlines http://www.bigskyair.com/ will look for another airline to take over its Montana routes will mean for Helena air service, airport manager Ron Mercer said.

Billings-based Big Sky, a subsidiary of MAIR Holdings out of Minneapolis, announced it is dropping its operations on the East Coast, where it serves as a Delta Connection partner in a handful of cities, in early January. Big Sky cited bad weather, low revenue and high fuel costs as the reasons for dropping the routes.

By JOHN HARRINGTON – Independent Record

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Big Sky Airlines to halt East Coast operations; Montana flights will likely be impacted

Big Sky Airlines announced Wednesday that it will ground its East Coast operations on Jan. 7 because of disappointing revenues.

“Our Eastern operations were dramatically affected by a combination of unusually bad weather, disappointing revenue and record-high fuel prices,” Fred DeLeeuw, Big Sky’s president, said in a news release. “We have great people who have worked extraordinarily hard, but that factor could not overcome the challenges we faced, and we no longer believe that we can reach sustained profitability.”

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