The DoT awarded Escanaba and Iron Mountain to Mesaba (DL*). Manistee and Ironwood are both put back up for bid. Both cities preferred Great Lakes over the other two choices, but there's no bid from Great Lakes which they could have selected becaue Great Lakes bid was all four or nothing.
I wonder if Great Lakes will now submit a new (probably more expensive) bid for the two remaining cities? That's what they are hoping. Manistee is finally back to the traffic they had back in the best of the Midwest Connect days. Ironwood, unforunatley, is far down from those days when Midwest Connect grew traffic at those two airports to the busiest they had been in decades.
Had Great Lakes won all four cities, they would likely have needed to fly three aircraft in their MKE system to cover them at the level proposed. If that were the case, they might have added some non-subsidized flying like Duluth, Moline, Traverse City, or Cincinnati to use the aircraft more fully. Now if they re-bid and win just IWD and MBL again, it is likely to be the same one-plane schedule. Unfortunately they have not been terribly reliable as of late with that one plane. If something goes wrong, there's nothing to do but wait until the plane is fixed or cancel.