Great Lakes Airlines (Cheyenne) will resume services to Telluride, Colorado at the end of this year following a near two year-long hiatus. The leisure resort has, since then, been without any regular passenger flights.

The Colorado Flights Alliance, a consortium of regional governments and businesses that advocates for more flights to mountain towns like Montrose and Telluride, said in a statement that it had been able to reach an agreement with Great Lakes thus paving the way for flights to resume.

“Guests from around the world can once again book flights directly into the Telluride Airport, which sits just ten minutes from town and the ski slopes,” Matt Skinner, CFA's chief operating officer, said in a statement. “Commercial air service to Telluride is hugely important to both visitors and residents alike, and we have been diligently working on its return for the past two years, exploring every possible option.”

A year-round 10x weekly service to Denver International, operated as a codeshare service with marketing carrier United Airlines (UA, Chicago O'Hare), will start on December 17. Service is on-board Beech 1900D equipment.