Jump to content

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Taquan Air

Add links
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
< Wikipedia:Articles for deletion

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Unscintillating (talk | contribs) at 16:54, 23 February 2011 (→Taquan Air: FAA, native american avenues yet to be explored, public transport companies meet the sociological definition of "institution"). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Taquan Air

Taquan Air (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log)
(Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL)

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)[reply]

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)[reply]
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)[reply]
    • 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)[reply]
      • 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)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]
    • 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)[reply]
reply On the one hand, you will be looking at the fact that this company employs eight people ref with annual revenue of $2.5 million.  But I see muliple elements here that widen the scope of notability.  As a citizen of the US who has flown in an airplane, I note that such air travelers have a personal safety interest in that their government regulate public air transports.  Under policy, the NTSB report has status as a national media noticing this company.  This report has the names of five people that all concurred—the safety practices of the company are a target of the report, that the company's safety practices were not being adequately regulated by the FAA.  In citing "ineffective FAA oversight of air tour operators' adherence to required weather minimums", the report draws attention to another government agency, the FAA, with a duty to notice and regulate this airline, that is not currently otherwise referenced.  Another unexplored avenue in the article is that the name of this airline comes from native people ref.  There is also the company Kootznoowoo Inc ref started four years before the founding of their airline, such that there is 27 years of history missing.
Previous reviewers in some Alaska-airline AfD nominations have put forward the idea that there is an inherent notability that comes from being a public transport.  I agree.  To give the force of reason for this view I have looked at the sociology concept and article [institution].  This article leads to [public service], which states, "Even where public services are neither publicly provided nor publicly financed, for social and political reasons they are usually subject to regulation going beyond that applying to most economic sectors".  I think the newspaper article draws attention to this status of Taquan as being an "institution", My main concern is to keep the jobs in Ketchikan and keep Taquan going, Salazar said. Taquan Air is a long-established brand name recognized for meeting the demands and expectations of Southeast travelers...  Unscintillating (talk) 16:54, 23 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Taquan_Air&oldid=415535168"