History
On Saturday, April 1, 1961, the Manistee News-Advocate reported "North Central's inaugural Flight 914", piloted by Captain Leslie C. Raatz. The aircraft was a Convair 340. Though the article does not explicitly say so, this was the first commercial flight to Manistee.
Great Lakes Airlines decided not to bid for another two-year service contract to serve as the main airline. Instead, two other airlines bid and Frontier Airlines won. On September 20, 2011, Frontier announced that it would end its service on March 8, 2012. Frontier cut the route along with others to discontinue its use of smaller non-efficient planes, including the Embraer 135 that serves the route from Milwaukee to Manistee.
In May 2012, PublicCharters began scheduled nonstop service, operated by Aerodynamics, from Chicago Midway International Airport to and from Manistee. Initially, PublicCharters provided service with the Embraer-145, a 50-seat regional jet. Later, service will transition to a 30-seat Embraer-120 turbo-prop aircraft. The carrier announced that it will end service to Midway on October 16, 2012.
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