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Taquan Air

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Another local airline in Alaska. All sources used in the article are the subject's own website. Nothing any better found in a search. This airline operates 8 small planes in Southeast Alaska, which has lots and lots of little local airlines like this because there are few roads in the area. Fails notability guideline for businesses as there do not seem to be any independent reliable sources that discuss the subject. Beeblebrox (talk) 23:19, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Alaska-related deletion discussions. —Beeblebrox (talk) 23:21, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions. —Beeblebrox (talk) 23:23, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
• Weak Delete - Unlike some of the other Alaskan air services that have been put through AFD, there does seem to be a bit more on this company although not enough for me to say keep. A 2007 air crash ([1], [2], [3], [4]) generated coverage but really its news about an air crash rather than about the company. It gets local coverage, but that doesn't really establish notability. The most significant sources towards notablist are [5], and [6] where the company is used as a case study or example for entrepreneurship and small businesses. -- Whpq (talk) 15:09, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 16:04, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:00, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

• Keep. You can book seats on this airline on Expedia. The air accident also shows that Taquan Air has been in the news. More work needs to be done to the article but I think it is a keeper.  Nipsonanomhmata  ^(Talk) 01:06, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
  • Comment - The fact that you can book tickets does not establish notability. -- Whpq (talk) 10:34, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

And the argument that one crash confers notability doesn't convince either. Such crashes are pretty common in Alaska, there are a few dozen every year. There are a few thousand small planes up here, flying in some very harsh conditions over rugged terrain with few opportunities for emergency landings. Beeblebrox (talk) 16:55, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

• Comment Delete. Just found this reference which says that the airline is no longer in business: [7]  Nipsonanomhmata  ^(Talk) 19:36, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

• • Comment - Being defunct is not a reason for deletion, just as much as being able to book tickets is not a reason for inclusion. -- Whpq (talk) 20:24, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
    • I called the phone number listed here and here, and got a recording identifying themselves as "Taquan" and saying flight schedules were on their internet site.  The BBB page says, "The phone numbers the BBB had for this company are disconnected..."  So I don't think we should rush to press based only on the BBB page.  Unscintillating (talk) 05:09, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
• Keep  Passenger airlines in the US are not lacking for being noticed, especially since 9/11.  I had no trouble in adding two references and adding interesting material about this airline.  I found a logo installed for the Russian Wikipedia and plugged that in.  Plus they have been around since 1977.  This is an ideal slightly obscure, referenceable, and notable topic for Wikipedia. I found a report from the US government about a crash of one of their airplanes in 2007.  This particular accident seems to have worried the Ketchikan tourist industry bringing 900,000 cruise ship tourists to Ketchikan.  So clearly this accident is of interest to US citizens who fly airplanes, tourists with the resources to take cruise ships to Alaska, the cruise ship industry, and the tourist industry of Ketchikan, as well as the air tour industry in Alaska.  Unscintillating (talk) 01:38, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
  • comment - Perhaps airlines in general my not lack for notice, but this one still does. A report on the business being sold in a local paper doesn't establish notability, nor does an NTSB report after an aircrash. -- Whpq (talk) 13:21, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
• Keep references look fine to me. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 03:46, 23 February 2011 (UTC)