ACCESS AIR 1998-2001
Another small airline that had big dreams of becoming a major player in the field but failed.
ACCESSAIR ,following the footsteps of Western Pacific and COS, wanted to turn Des Moines (DSM) into a major hub in Middle America and providing for its customers a seamless service from the East to West coast and from North to South (this last part will never materialize though) with an intermediate stop in Des Moines International Airport.
DES MOINES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
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DSM 1998 statistics
The 5 most popular destinations were Chicago (both ORD and MDW airports) : 429,452 passengers, Saint Louis : 320,763 passengers , Denver 246,101 passengers, Minneapolis-St. Paul: 173,156 passengers and Dallas : 132,519 passengers.
Founded in 1998, the company launched its operations from DSM in February 1999 with a fleet of Boeing737-200 (which was the preferred airliner of newly established low cost airlines). Extremely low factors coupled with mounting losses forced the company to stop its operations in November 1999, merely 9 months after the beginning of services. a short revival was attempted in 2000 but it was headed to failure. The fleet of the company consisted of 4 Boeing 737-200 with a 117 passenger configuration :
N623AC ex Lufthansa " Schwenfurt" delivered to ACCESSAIR on 18/2/1998 (cn23157)
N621AC ex Lufthansa "Paderborn" delivered to ACCESSAIR on 31/3/1999 (cn23156)
N624AC ex British Airways " River Wye" delivered to ACCESSAIR on 07/07/1999 (cn23161)
N625AC ex British Airways " River Exe" delivered to ACCESSAIR on 11/06/1999 (cn23165)
As mentioned above, flights were launched to Los Angeles, and New York (La Guardia) Via Moline and Peoria .
The month of June sees the launch of new service to Colorado Springs which is extended to Los Angeles
The month of July witnesses the halt of the DSM-LAX service replaced by increased frequencies on the DSM-COS-LAX route .
August sees an expansion, as the direct DSM-LAX is re-instated and 3 other routes are appearing COS-PIA and COS-MLI and MLI-PIA
DSM-LGA will be the last route , the company inaugurates in its last month of operation.
The company in its 9 month of existence carried 201,911 passengers to 7 destinations with a load factor of 43.4% The network reached 7653 miles
The 2 tables below will give you additional information on the operations of ACCCESSAIR
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| ACCESS AIR TIMETABLE FROM THE ARTHUR NA COLLECTION |
TABLE 1 TRAFFIC STATISTICS BY ROUTE
TABLE 2 TRAFFIC STATISTICS BY MONTH
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