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Bids for airlines who are interested in providing essential air service to El Dorado are due next week, and Mayor Mike Dumas told city aldermen on Thursday that an airline consultant is working under the wire to help find an airline that will best fit the community’s air travel needs.

Dumas said Barry Clark, of the Texas-based Barry Clark and Associates, spoke to the chief executive officer of Continental Airlines and was to have met with Continental’s marketing team on Friday.

Much of the update provided by Dumas had already been relayed to the El Dorado Airport Commis...