Manistee County-Blacker Airport is a public airport

Airport

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 located three miles (5 km) northeast of the central business district

Central business district

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 (CBD) of Manistee

Manistee, Michigan

Manistee is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 6,586. It is the county seat of Manistee County. The name "Manistee" is from an Ojibwe word first applied to the principal river of the county. The derivation is not certain, but it may be from...

, a city in Manistee County

Manistee County, Michigan

-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 24,527 people, 9,860 households, and 6,714 families residing in the county. The population density was 45 people per square mile . There were 14,272 housing units at an average density of 26 per square mile...

, Michigan

Michigan

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, USA

United States

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. The airport covers 290 acres (117 ha) and has two runway

Runway

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s. It is mostly used for general aviation

General aviation

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. Frontier Airlines

Frontier Airlines

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 provides service to Milwaukee (MKE

General Mitchell International Airport

General Mitchell International Airport is a county-owned public airport located five miles south of the central business district of Milwaukee, a city in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States....

).

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.

According to the airport's Facebook page, Great Lakes Airlines decided not to bid for another two-year service contract to serve as the main airline. Instead, two other airlines bidded and Frontier Airlines won the bid. On September 20, 2011, Frontier announced that it would end its service in 180 days, March 8th. 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. The airport is now searching for a new airline service provider.

Airlines and destinations

External links

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