Page Municipal Airport


Page Municipal Airport is east of Page, in Coconino County, Arizona. The airport sees two airlines, one subsidized by the federal government's Essential Air Service program.
The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems categorized it as a primary commercial service airport.

History

The Page Airport was officially named the "Royce K Knight Field" on July 14, 1988 in recognition of the man who started the Page Airport during the construction of the Glen Canyon Dam. Royce ran the FBO which offered scenic flights over the Grand Canyon and Lake Powell areas.

Facilities and Aircraft

Page Municipal Airport covers at an elevation of. It has two asphalt runways:
In the year ending December 30, 2018; the airport had 16,341 aircraft operations, average 45 per day: 51% general aviation, 46% air taxi, 2% airline and <1% military. 75 aircraft were then based at this airport: 76% single-engine, 19% multi-engine, 3% helicopter, and 2% jet. The airport is an uncontrolled airport that has no control tower.
The Page Airport was officially named the "Royce K Knight Field" on July 14, 1988 in recognition of the man who started the Page Airport during the construction of the Glen Canyon Dam. Royce ran the FBO which offered scenic flights over the Grand Canyon and Lake Powell areas.

Airlines and destinations

Contour Airlines operates Embraer ERJ-135 regional jets on all of its scheduled passenger flights serving the airport.

Historical airline service

began serving Page during the early 1960s with 40-passenger Fairchild F-27 turboprops with daily direct service to Phoenix via a stop at the Grand Canyon National Park Airport and also daily to Salt Lake City via a stop in Cedar City, Utah. Bonanza then merged with Pacific Air Lines and West Coast Airlines to form Air West which in 1968 was continuing to serve Page with daily direct F-27 flights to Phoenix via stops at the Grand Canyon airport and Prescott as well as direct to Salt Lake City via Cedar City. Air West then changed its name to Hughes Airwest which in 1972 was operating daily direct F-27 service to Las Vegas via Grand Canyon airport and also direct to Salt Lake City via Cedar City on a daily basis. By 1975, Hughes Airwest had introduced direct F-27 service on the weekdays to Los Angeles International Airport via stops at Grand Canyon, Las Vegas and Palm Springs as well as continuing to operate direct service to Salt Lake City via Cedar City. In 1977, Hughes Airwest was flying non-stop F-27 service to Phoenix on a weekday basis in addition to the direct flight to Salt Lake City via Cedar City and had turned over the Las Vegas service to SkyWest Airlines which was operating Piper Navajo twin prop aircraft on the route with non-stop flights. Hughes Airwest then discontinued all service into the airport and was no longer serving Page by 1980.
Following the cessation of service by Hughes Airwest, SkyWest Airlines, operating as an independent commuter air carrier, was providing non-stop service with Piper Navajo prop aircraft to Las Vegas and Phoenix. Scenic Airlines also flew nonstop service to Las Vegas on a seasonal basis during the late 1970s. By June 1, 1986, SkyWest was operating all service into Page as Western Express via a code sharing agreement with Western Airlines flying 19-passenger Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner propjets direct to Phoenix via a stop in Flagstaff and also non-stop to St. George, Utah. Following the acquisition of Western by Delta Air Lines on April 1, 1987, SkyWest began serving Page as a Delta Connection air carrier via a code sharing agreement with Delta with Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner propjets flying the same routes previously operated as Western Express. By 1995, SkyWest operating as the Delta Connection was operating three roundtrip non-stop flights a day with Metroliner aircraft between Page and Phoenix. In 1996 Great Lakes Airlines began serving the Page-Phoenix route with 19-seat Beechcraft 1900 commuter turboprops. The following year Scenic Airlines began serving Page once again and was flying the Page-Phoenix route with Cessna and Beechcraft 1900 aircraft. In 1998, Scenic was serving Page via a code sharing agreement with Delta Air Lines. In 1999 Sunrise Airlines took over the service flying three roundtrip non-stops a day between Page and Phoenix as an independent commuter air carrier with Piper Navajo aircraft. Great Lakes returned to Page in 2001, first operating flights to Phoenix as United Express on behalf of United Airlines via a code sharing agreement but then reverted to the independent Great Lakes banner the following year. Since then additional flights were operated at times to Denver, Las Vegas, and Farmington, NM before Great Lakes ceased all service and went out of business.

Statistics

RankAirport name & IATA codePassengersAirline
1Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport 6,320Contour
2McCarran International Airport3,840Contour

Year20082009201020112012201320142015201620172018
Enplanements4,9624,9896,3315,9886,8306,4016,0685,2755,8386,312736
Change9.53%0.54%26.90%5.42%14.06%6.28%5.20%13.07%10.67%8.12%88.34%
AirlineGreat Lakes AirlinesGreat Lakes AirlinesGreat Lakes AirlinesGreat Lakes AirlinesGreat Lakes AirlinesGreat Lakes AirlinesGreat Lakes AirlinesGreat Lakes AirlinesGreat Lakes AirlinesGreat Lakes AirlinesGreat Lakes Airlines
DestinationFarmington
----Phoenix		Farmington
----Phoenix		Farmington
----Phoenix		Farmington
----Phoenix		Farmington
----Las Vegas
----Phoenix		Farmington
----Las Vegas
----Phoenix		PhoenixDenver
----Farmington
----Phoenix		Cortez
----Denver
----Phoenix		PhoenixPhoenix