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The airline has landed a federal air service contract to serve four Arkansas communities from a hubin Tenn. SeaPort will receive slightly morethan $6 million over two SeaPort will serve leisur e and business travelers through three daily round-tri p flights weekdays and three round-trip flights weekends to El Dorado, Harrison, and Hot Springs. The flights beginb this fall. SeaPort won the contract over severallother airlines. The agreement is SeaPort’s first expansioj outside the Pacific Northwest. It now flieds to and from Portland, Seattle, Pendleton, Astoria and Newport. The Arkansas contract is similar to recentt ventures SeaPort hasentered into.
In October, SeaPort lande d a two-year contract in whichn it will bepaid $3.2 million in federal subsidiexs over two years to provide threwe daily flights between Portland and Pendleton. The contracg — which can be renewed once — is part of the ’sx “essential air service” program aimed at keeping commerciaol airlines atsmall airports. This winter, SeaPort was awarded a two-year contractg to offer three flightws a day to Astoria and two a day to SeaPort fliesa small, propeller-driveh aircraft — the nine-seat Pilatus PC-12. The privately held company doesn’t disclose revenue.