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Applications and Renewals:
Air Guadeloupe/Air Martinique - San Juan Exemption | The Coast - Supplement No.6 | Singapore - O'Hare Cargo
Answers and Replies:
Air Jamaica - Answer of Houston | Atlantic Coast - Motion of ACA for Decision on Slots | Reno - Reply of Atlantic Coast/United
Notices of Action Taken:
American (2) | Continental Micronesia | Delta | Delta and Aeromexico
Notices and Orders:
None
| OST-99-5001 | January 28, 1999 | Answer of The City of Houston and The Greater Houston
Partnership |
Scheduled Combination between Jamaica and Houston |
Air Jamaica has proposed its new service at a particularly opportune time because, as Air Jamaica points out in its application, "the only direct service between Montego Bay and Houston is scheduled to be discontinued at the end of [January]." Air Jamaica would be the only scheduled service not just between Houston and Jamaica, but between the State of Texas and Jamaica. Each year, Texas is among the states responsible for sending the most U.S. travelers to Jamaica and the Caribbean region. In addition, the introduction of scheduled service to Jamaica from Houston, the nation's sixth largest international airport, will enable passengers from a large range of cities and communities behind the Houston gateway to avail themselves of a new service option to the Caribbean. Thus, Air Jamaica's proposed service will be of considerable benefit not just to Caribbean-bound passengers from the Houston area, but to U.S. passengers and shippers generally.
The Houston Parties respectfully the Department to approve the application of Air Jamaica for authority to operate scheduled combination service between Montego Bay, Jamaica and Houston, Texas, and strongly encourage the Department to approve the application without delay, so that Air Jamaica can begin marketing its new Houston - Montego Bay service as soon as possible prior to its May 1999 start-up date.
Counsel: Houston and Zuckert Scoutt, Rachel Trinder, 202-298-8660
| OST-96-1065 | Filed December 23, 1998 Issued January 28, 1999 |
Notice of Action Taken |
New York-Rio de Janeiro |
Scheduled foreign air transportation of persons, property, and mail between New York, New York (JFK) and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
| OST-98-3419 | Filed December 23, 1998 Issued January 28, 1999 |
Notice of Action Taken |
New York/Boston-Tokyo Dormancy |
By Order 98-5-17, the Department granted certificate authority to American to provide service between New York and Tokyo and between Boston and Tokyo, and allocated it a total of fourteen weekly frequencies to operate seven weekly frequencies in each market. The frequencies are subject to the condition that they will expire automatically and revert to the Department for reallocation if they are not used for a period of 90 days. Under the terms of the order, the frequency allocation would expire January 30,1999, 90 days after American's proposed start-up date of November 1, 1998. American has requested that the dormancy condition be waived until the necessary slots at Tokyo's Narita Airport are available for the inauguration of its service in these two markets.
By: Paul Gretch
| OST-98-3982 | January 28, 1999 | Motion of Atlantic Coast Airlines for a
Decision |
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ACA makes this motion at this time because it has a narrow window of opportunity to schedule Savannah/Hilton Head flights commencing in the Spring or early summer of 1999 with one of the three regional jet aircraft that are scheduled to be delivered to ACA during this time period. As the DOT can appreciate, ACA must make immediate and efficient use of each of its newly delivered regional jet aircraft and cannot wait indefinitely to deploy its new aircraft because of the uncertainty surrounding the timing of he DOT's decision on the merits of ACA's Savannah/Hilton Heads request.
Whatever the Department's reluctance to address ACA's application has been in the past, it is the time to do so now. A total of five slots are available for award and the communities of Savannah Hilton Head, by and through their business and political leaders, have strongly supported the application of ACA. The DOT should not shirk its responsibility to further the interest of the traveling public nor allow to lay dormant the valuable opportunities represented by the five unused O'Hare slots. Accordingly, ACA moves the Department to promptly act on, and approve, ACA's request to serve the Savannah/Hilton Head market. If action is taken swiftly, ACA will be able to schedule one of its Springi Summer regional jet deliveries to serve the route. With ACA's other route commitments at its growing hub at Dulles International Airport, it may not be able to again address the Savannah/Hilton Head market until some time in the future, and certainly long after Savannah/ Hilton Head would prefer to receive service from ACA.
Counsel: Bagileo Silverberg, Robert Silverberg, 202-944-3300
The Coast Airlines, Inc. (formerly AIRPortland, Inc.)
| OST-97-3049 | January 27, 1999 | Supplement No.6 to Application for a Certificate of Public
Convenience and Necessity |
Response to Information Request |
| Service List | |||
| Certification | |||
| Exhibits Added 1/29 | Attachment A-1: Investment Leads | ||
| Attachment A-2: Notice of Employment | |||
| Attachment B-1: Employee Stock Shares Issued | |||
| Attachment B-2: Supplemental Financial Data | |||
| Attachment B-3: Projected Income Statement | |||
| Attachment B-4: Balance Sheet Assumptions | |||
| Attachment B-5: Re: The Coast Airlines, Verification of Gross Offering Proceeds | |||
| Attachment B-6: Endorsement Agreement | |||
| Attachment C-1: The Coast Arilines Board |
The Coast Airlines, Inc., formerly AIRPortland, Inc. (the "Applicant" or "The Coast"), hereby responds to the Information Request provided by the Department in a letter dated December 18, 1998, seeking further information relevant to the Application in the above captioned docket.
Counsel: Wilmer Cutler, Jeffrey Shane, 202.663.6000
| OST-98-3419 | Filed January 8, 1999 Issued January 28, 1999 |
Notice of Action Taken |
Honolulu-Tokyo Dormancy |
By Order 98-5-17, the Department allocated Continental Micronesia five weekly frequencies to operate service between Honolulu and Tokyo. The frequencies are subject to the condition that they will expire automatically and revert to the Department for reallocation if they are not used for a period of 90 Days. Under the terms of the order, the frequency allocation would expire March 15, 1999, i.e. 90 days after Continental Micronesia's proposed start-up date of December 15, 1998. Continental Micronesia has requested that the dormancy condition be waived until the necessary slots at Tokyo's Narita Airport are available for the inauguration of its service.
By: Paul Gretch
| OST-98-3419 | Filed December 21, 1998 Issued January 28, 1999 |
Notice of Action Taken |
Portland-Osaka Dormancy |
By Order 98-5-17, the Department granted certificate authority to Delta to provide service between Portland and Osaka, and allocated it seven weekly frequencies for this service. The frequencies are subject to the condition that they will expire automatically and revert to the Department for reallocation if they are not used for a period of 90 days. Under the terms of the order, the frequency allocation would expire January 26, 1999, net 90 days after Delta's proposed start-up date of October 28, 1998. Delta seeks a waiver of the Heyday dormancy condition through June 30, 1999, stating that economic conditions in Asia make it necessary to delay inauguration of its service. Delta states that it now plans to begin service between Portland and Osaka in June 1999.
By: Paul Gretch
Delta Air Lines, Inc. and Aerovias de Mexico, S.A. de C.V.
| OST-97-3289 Undocketed |
Issued January 27, 1999 | Notice of Action Taken |
U.S. - Mexico Codesharing |
Permit Delta to display Aeromexico's airline code on flights operated by Delta between Atlanta, on the one hand, and Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Cincinnati, Detroit, Raleigh/Durham, Greensboro, Nashville, New York, Newark, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C., on the other, for the carriage of Aeromexico's traffic moving between Monterrey, Mexico, and the 12 named points beyond Atlanta.
By: Paul Gretch
La Caribeenne des Transportes Aeriens d/b/a Air Guadeloupe/Air Martinique
| OST-99-5054 | January 28, 1999 | Application for Exemption Authority |
French Caribbean Points-San Juan and Beyond; Scheduled and Charter Combination Service |
| Service List | |||
| Exhibits Added 1/29 | Exhibit 1: Board of Directors and General Company Information | ||
| Exhibit 2: French Air Transport License |
The new authority Air Guadeloupe requests in this application would permit it to operate new service involving additional French Caribbean points. Air Guadeloupe proposes to operate three new, weekly round-trips, using ATR-42-500 aircraft (with seating for 48 passengers), on the following routing: Fort-de-France - Pointe-a-Pitre - Esperance (St. Martin) - San Juan - Port-au-Prince and return. Air Guadeloupe currently operates under exemption authority, encompassing many of these points, that recently was renewed in Docket OST-96-1125 by a Notice of Action Taken dated January 25, 1999.
Counsel: Verner Liipfert, William Evans, 202-371-6030
| OST-97-2771 49743 |
January 28, 1999 | Motion for Leave to File and Reply of Atlantic Coast
Airlines to Answer of American Airlines |
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Finally, to the extent American Eagle has regrettably pitted the communities of Savannah/Hilton Head and Greenville/Spartanburg against one another by the filing of its unexplained late application and thereby trying to turn the ACA application into a carrier/city selection proceeding, the comparative merits favor an award to ACA for all of the reasons set forth by ACA's prior pleadings referenced above.
Counsel: Bagileo Silverberg, Robert Silverberg, 202-944-3300
| OST-97-2771 49743 |
January 28, 1999 | Consolidated Reply of United Air Lines and
Motion for Leave to File |
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Not only does American not qualify as a new entrant, it does not make any commitment to continue the low-fare services which the Department found were necessary to produce the public benefits on which the issuance of slot exemptions for Reno-Chicago service was premised. The Department concluded that, absent low fares, frequent nonstop services could not be sustained in a leisure market such as Reno-Chicago. American itself failed to sustain nonstop Reno-Chicago nonstop service and has provided no basis on which to conclude that it will be able to do so as a result of its acquisition of Reno Air. There is, for example, no demonstration that Reno Air, under American's ownership, can continue to maintain the lower costs that are needed to offer low-fare services and still show a profit. Indeed, American does not even suggest that it intends to maintain Reno Air's existing low cost structure, let alone seek to demonstrate that it could do so under the terms of its various collective bargaining agreements.
Counsel: United and Kirkland Ellis, Jeffrey Manley, 202-879-5161, jeffrey_manley@kirkland.com
| OST-99-5055 | January 28, 1999 | Application for an Exemption |
Singapore-Taipei-Anchorage-Chicago O'Hare-New York JFK-Brussels-Bombay-Singapore All-Cargo |
| Service List |
Pursuant to 49 U.S.C. § 41714(b)(1) Singapore Airlines Limited hereby applies for an exemption from the requirements of Subparts K and S of Part 93 of the Federal Aviation Regulations so that it may continue its current pattern of once-weekly all-cargo service that operates on a Singapore-Taipei-Anchorage-Chicago O'Hare-New York (JFK)-Brussels-Bombay-Singapore route, during the 1999 summer season. Singapore Airlines has been operating; this service since October 7, 1998. To maintain the service, Singapore Airlines requests two slots,) on or before March 28,1999, so that this service may be operated throughout the summer season. Singapore Airlines duly requested the necessary summer season slots by requesting them in advance at the most recent iATA slot coordination conference. At the IATA slot coordination conference, Singapore Airlines was informed that its slot request would not be granted. Per the advice of the FAA, on January 4, 1999, Singapore Airlines repeated its request for the necessary slots. On January 8, 1999, the Acting Manager of the FAA's Airspace and Air Traffic Law Branch advised Singapore Airlines by electronic mail that its slot request would not be accommodated since the FM had not received a sufficient number of returned slots to meet all such pending slot requests. Accordingly, Singapore Airlines has exhausted all appropriate slot allocation procedures.
Counsel: Galland Kharasch, Anita Mosner, 202-342-5200
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