By Pep Fisher
PORT ANGELES – Dash Air, the airline shuttle company in Port Angeles, is expecting to begin booking flights by the end of the month, and company President Clint Ostler told members of the Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday what to expect when they buy a ticket.
Ostler began by clearing up a misnomer. He said Dash Air isn’t actually the flight service provider. That’s Backcountry Aviation. Dash Air handles the ticketing and marketing for Backcountry.
The company will begin with two 30-minute flights to Boeing Field or SeaTac per day. That’s all the state Dept. of Transportation will allow for now, but Ostler said they expect to expand their schedule to six flights by next summer.
“Our plan is to, after we’ve been operating, go to the DOT, show what we’ve been doing, demonstrate that we’re truly an intra-state carrier, and hopefully they will finally grant us permission to allow us to operate more intra-state flights so we can increase the frequency of the schedule. And then, by next summer, we are very much planning to have up to six flights a day between here and Seattle.”
Passengers who fly into Boeing Field but want to go on to SeaTac Airport can hop aboard Dash Air’s 15-minute shuttle van to SeaTac’s main terminal. The return trip back to Fairchild Airport in Port Angeles will be the reverse.
Flights out of Port Angeles will only be offered 4 days per week. On Monday and Thursday, you can fly into Boeing Field, and on Friday and Sunday you can fly directly to SeaTac. Flight will go wheels up from Fairchild at 8:55am and at 3:30pm.
One-way regular restricted fares will run between $99 and $169. The unrestricted fare will be $189.
To learn more about fares and scheduling, go to flydashair.com.