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Applications and Renewals:
Airtours International - Registration of Trade Name | American and British Airways - Dismissal of Codeshare Application
Answers and Replies:
Airline Delays - Comments | Caplan v Northwest - Answer of Northwest | Compensation of Air Carriers - Comments of NATA
CRS (2)- Comments | EAS at Show Low, AZ - Comments | EAS at Vernal/Cedar City, UT - Comments
Express I (2)- Comments/EAS Proposal of Corporate Airlines | Mesaba - Response to EAS Proposals
Service Reductions - Trans States at Sioux City | Sky King - Letter Granting Extension of Time
Transatlantic/Transpacific Mail Rates - Letter Concerning Meeting | United/ACA - Letter form Sec Mineta
Notices of Action Taken:
Notices and Orders:
American Eagle - Allowing Suspension of Service at Baton Rouge | EAS at Crescent City, California - Reselecting Carrier
Airtours International Airways Limited
| OST-02- | March 11, 2002 | Application for Registration of Trade Name |
"My Travel Airways Ltd." |
Airtours
International Airways Limited applies, pursuant to Part 215 of the Department's
regulations, for registration of the trade name "My Travel Airways
Ltd."
Airtours is a flag carrier of the United Kingdom authorized by a foreign air carrier permit to engage in charter foreign air transportation between the United Kingdom and the United States and between the United States and points not in the UK or US, subject to certain conditions. (Order 94-8-34) Airtours plans to begin doing business as "My Travel Airways Ltd." on or about May 1, 2002. Airtours is not aware of any other carrier using this or a similar name. Airtours has previously filed with the Department OST form 4523 regarding the Montreal Agreement referred to in Part 215(b). Accordingly, Airtours requests that the Department issue a notice acknowledging this registration.
Counsel: Zuckert Scoutt, Richard Mathias, 202.298.8660
American Airlines, Inc. and British Airways Plc
| OST-99-6507 | March 11, 2002 | Joint
Motion to Dismiss Codeshare Application |
US-UK Reciprocal Codesharing |
| Service List |
American Airlines, Inc. and British Airways Plc hereby jointly move to dismiss their application for codeshare authority, submitted in this docket on November 15, 1999, and reserving any and all rights resulting from the Department's failure to approve the application in a timely manner.
Counsel: British Airways, Paul Jasinski, 713.397.4250 and American, Carl Nelson, 202.496.5647, carl.nelson@aa.com
| Order 02-3-09 OST-02-11462 |
Issued March 11, 2002 Served Marc 11, 2002 |
Order Allowing Suspension of Service |
45 Day Notice to Suspend Service Between Chicago O'Hare- Baton Rouge |
We
have decided to grant American Eagle's request to suspend service. As we have
noted in recent orders, the
U.S. air carrier traffic and revenues have dropped sharply as a result of the
September 11 events. As indicated in testimony leading up to the Stabilization
Act and a study by the General Accounting Office (GAO), many air carriers
suffered precipitous losses in traffic and revenue as consequences of the
September 11 events.
Even before the events of September 11, American Eagle was reporting significant losses. Our review of American Eagle's system operating results for the year ended December 31, 2001, shows that during this period American Eagle reported operating and net losses in each quarter, and for the year the carrier reported a total operating loss of $249.5 million and a total net loss of $255.7 million.° American Eagle has also reported losses of $1.269 million for its O'Hare-Baton Rouge service for the year ended December 31, 2001, and, consistent with recent orders, we find this level of losses to be substantial. In this regard, we would not have required American Eagle to file additional financial information since the data for the year ended November 30, 2001, are close enough to the February 1, 2002, notice date to be considered current and relevant. The more current data simply reinforce the previously reported losses. Even Baton Rouge has not suggested that additional January 2002 data would reverse the reported O'Hare-Baton Rouge losses of the previous 11 months, only that an improving trend would be demonstrated. Finally, we do not find that Baton Rouge has demonstrated that American Eagle is seeking to terminate the O'Hare-Baton Rouge service based on a contractual arrangement between American Airlines and its pilots. Rather, we find that the American Eagle has demonstrated losses for its O'Hare-Baton Rouge service justifying grant of its request to terminate this service.
By: Read Van de Water
Categories of Airline Delays and Cancellations
| OST-00-8164 | March 11, 2002 | Comments of City of Boston Environment Department |
Categories of Airline Delays and Cancellations |
Given the significant and difficult changes in airport/airline security since the tragic events of September 11 , 2001, we suggest that a separate security-related category may be helpful. While we understand that the NAS category encompasses a number of operational eventualities, separating security-related delays from other operational events might aid the Department of Transportation (DOT) in determining the efficiency of new security procedures.
By: City of Boston Environment Department, Antonia Pollak
Computer Reservation System Regulations
| OST-02-11577 | March 8, 2002 | Comments
of Preferred Westwind Travel |
Extension of Computer Reservation System Rules |
By: Preferred Westwind Travel, Brenda Thomas
| OST-02-11577 | March 8, 2002 | Comments
of B & G Travel |
Extension of Computer Reservation System Rules |
By: B & G Travel, Linda Berry
Essential Air Service at Crescent City, California
| Order 02-3-08 OST-97-2649 |
Issued March 11, 2002 Served March 14, 2002 |
Order
Tentatively Reselecting Carrier |
Essential Air Service at Crescent City, California |
| Attachments: Map, EAS to be Provided | |||
| Service List |
We will tentatively reselect SkyWest to provide essential air service at Crescent City as detailed in Appendix C, for an additional two-year period. The level of service is the same as before and the level of subsidy is approximately the same.
In response to our inquiry SkyWest submitted and negotiated a renewal proposal for an additional two-year rate term. (See Appendix B to this order for a summary of the subsidy computation for SkyWest.) SkyWest's proposed service would be the same as the historical service level. It would provide a total of 18 one-stop round trips a week to either San Francisco or Sacramento. Historically, SkyWest has provided a daily nonstop to San Francisco and the remainder of the service to Sacramento over Eureka. This service pattern allows Crescent City passengers to disembark at Eureka and make connections on SkyWest to San Francisco or stay on the airplane and continue to Sacramento. Based on informal rate discussions held between the carrier and the Department staff, an annual subsidy rate of $333,717 was agreed upon.
As is our usual program practice, we will allow interested parties 20 days to object to our decision and/or to file competing proposals. If no timely objections or competing proposals are filed this order will automatically become final. We expect persons objecting to our tentative decision to support their objections with relevant and material facts. We will not entertain general, vague, or unsupported objections.
By: Read Van de Water
Essential Air Service at Show Low, Arizona
| OST-98-4409 | March 5, 2002 Docketed March 11, 2002 |
Comments
of The City of Show Low |
EAS at Show Low, AZ |
After much discussion of the aforementioned criteria, each Council member ranked the five applicant carriers and the results were tallied. The carriers were ranked as follows:
The two applicants ranked first and second were very close. Both Mesa Air Group and Arizona Express provided proposals that addressed the City's issues, but Mesa's ability to provide connectivity skewed the Council in its favor. I reiterate that it was a very difficult choice since every proposal promised substantial benefits to everyone involved. One of the City's concerns are the security requirements needed at the Show Low Municipal Airport to handle Part 121 operations, plus the anticipated changes to Part 139 operations. We realize that since the events of last September, air travel and security for the public are of paramount importance; however, we are also concerned about the potential fiscal impact to the City.
By: City of Show Low, Gerry Whipple, 928.532.4000
Essential Air Service at Vernal and Cedar City, Utah
| OST-97-2706 | March 1, 2002 Docketed March 11, 2002 |
Comments
of Cedar City Regional Airport |
Essential Air Service at Vernal and Cedar City, Utah |
In
October of 2000, the Cedar City Regional Airport conducted a survey of Iron
County residents with respect to air travel. The Southern Utah University Small
Business Development Center and the University's business department collected,
compiled, and analyzed the data. The first significant finding was that there
are approximately 30,000 enplanements available to the airport each year. The
airport actually does only 10,000 currently.
Further
analysis indicated the leakage was due to two factors: the primary reason being
the cheaper fares available elsewhere, or the "perception" that it was
cheaper to fly from Las Vegas or Salt Lake City than from Cedar City. Much of
this issue is being addressed by an aggressive city funded education and
marketing campaign to prove to travelers that in most cases it is very cost
effective to fly from Cedar City.
Sky West indicates that at approximately 13,000 - 15,000 enplanements they would likely consider operating without the Essential Air Service Subsidy. That is our immediate goal. If the Department of Transportation were to reduce us to only two flights per day, all hope of additional enplanements would dissolve. Our enplanement numbers would surely drop dramatically.
By: Cedar City Regional Airport, Gerald Sherratt,435.586.2950
Express I, Inc. d/b/a Northwest Airlink
| OST-00-7856 | February 27, 2002 Docketed March 11, 2002 |
Proposal
to Provide Essential Air Service of Corporate Airlines |
Terminate Air Service Northwest Alabama Regional Airport |
By: Corporate Airlines
| OST-01-10685 | March 5, 2002 Docketed March 11, 2002 |
Comments
of Hattiesburg-Laurel Regional Airport |
Termination of Service at Laurel/Hattiesburg, Mississippi |
A clear indication of the beginning of a passenger boardings rebound from the downturn caused by 9-11 is this February's performance. This month, traffic was up 29% over the same month last year. Considering that February is historically a slow month, if we project this same rate of increase for our peak month of July, we see that we could very well have 54 average daily passengers boardings which would require a 90 daily seat guarantee in order to prevent a "capacity cap" on our traffic.
Corporate Airlines: This airline has a superb reputation as a feeder for American Airlines at the St. Louis Hub. There are, however, some severe limitations to their operating a route from this region to the Memphis Hub. One of these is the capacity limitations just mentioned in Paragraph B.5 above. Another major problem currently is their lack of code sharing agreements with anyone beside American. Right now American only operates about 6% of the connecting flights in Memphis, so our travelers would have inadequate options for travel beyond Memphis. Since almost all of our passengers need to travel beyond Memphis, this is a clear disadvantage. To correct this situation, Corporate Airlines would have to establish a system wide code share agreement with Northwest that would allow a full spectrum of both domestic and international connections, as well as a baggage interline agreement with Northwest. In conclusion, for the reasons stated above, this community strongly recommends that the Northwest proposal for 3 or 2 daily flights (preferably 3) be selected.
By: Hattiesburg-Laurel Regional Airport, Jim McNeil
Louise M. Caplan v. Northwest Airlines, Inc.
| OST-02-11674 | March 11, 2002 | Answer of Northwest Airlines |
Violation of 14 CFR Part 382 |
| Service List |
The Complaint alleges that a violation of Part 382 occurred on November 27, 2001. In Docket OST-01-10598, the Chief Administrative law Judge approved a settlement between Northwest and the Office of Aviation Enforcement and Proceedings (AEP) that includes all Part 382 violations of the type alleged in the Complaint committed or alleged to have been committed between January l, 1997 and March 10, 2002. AEP had conducted a substantial investigation into Northwest's compliance with Part 382. The penalties in the settlement are substantial, and the remedial measures that Northwest agrees to undertake are innovative and far ranging. Ms. Caplan's claims in this docket are precluded by that settlement. As the Department stated when it dismissed an earlier, similar complaint by Ms. Caplan (against Continental) on claim preclusion grounds, "we believe a new and separate investigation to reexamine essentially similar matters would raise issues of double jeopardy and fairness and would not be in the public interest." Order 00-7-4, at 2.
By: Northwest, Frank Costello
| OST-02-11695 | Filed February 25, 2002 Issued March 8, 2002 |
Notice
of Action Taken |
Lima- Miami via Punta Cana, Dominican Republic |
Exemption to serve Punta Cana, Domincan Republic, as an intermediate point on currently authorized Lima-Miami scheduled services.
By: Paul Gretch
Mesaba Aviation, Inc. d/b/a Mesaba Airlines
| OST-01-10642 | February 25, 2002 Docketed March 11, 2002 |
Response
of City of Thief River Falls to EAS Proposal Submitted |
Notice of Intent to Terminate Service at Thief River Falls, MN |
We
have reviewed the two proposals submitted by Mesaba Airlines and Great Lakes
Aviation's single proposal, which were submitted in response to your
Department's Order issued on 31 December 2001. We have also had telephone
conversations regarding the proposals with Northwest Airline's Director for
State & Local Government Affairs, Bob Benner, who has acted as our contact
with Mesaba, Great Lakes Senior Vice President of Marketing, Dick Fontaine, and
the Minnesota Office of Aeronautics.
By
this letter, the City of Thief River Falls wishes to strongly encourage you to
negotiate a subsidy under the Essential Air Service Program (EAS) with Mesaba to
provide service to the Regional Airport that would include, as a minimum, 3
daily round trips on weekdays to Minneapolis-St. Paul. We believe that the
rationale for our request are clearly stated in detail under Items 4. and 5. in
our formal Objection dated October 5, 2001, on file with your Department.
We have great concern about the Great Lakes Aviation proposal. Their proposal would provide only 2 round trips each day. While the flights would be direct with no intermediate stops, they are proposing to operate with Beech 1900D's, a 19 seat aircraft. For years Mesaba flew the 19 passenger Fairchild Metro II I's on its routes. These smaller aircraft were never well received by air travelers in the Region. All parties we have contacted agree that a reduction in level of service of this nature could negatively impact the number of boardings at the Regional Airport. The other concern with Great Lakes' proposal is that it apparently involves no code-sharing with Northwest Airlines or any other major carrier. This results in an inconvenience to the traveler who will have to purchase tickets from at least 2 different airlines, if they are traveling beyond Minneapolis-St. Paul. Also, they would not receive frequent flyer miles for the Thief River Falls-Twin Cities leg of their flight.
By: City of Thief River Falls, Mark Borsheim
Procedures for Compensation of Air Carriers
| OST-01-10885 | January 16, 2002 Docketed March 11, 2002 |
Comments
of NATA National Air Transportation Association |
Procedures for Compensation of Air Carriers |
As a whole, the losses experienced as a direct result of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, are not accurately reflected when using the Available Seat Mile (ASM) formula found in 14 CFR 330. This is because the on-demand air charter customer pays a fee for the use of the entire aircraft when chartering as opposed to the airline customer who pays for the use of a single seat.
By: NATA National Air Transportation Association, Joseph Burnside
Reports on Significant Airline Service Reductions
| OST-01-10711 | March 7, 2002 Docketed March 11, 2002 |
Notice
of Trans States Airlines |
Reports on Significant Airline Service Reductions - Trans States Airlines at Sioux City, IA |
Trans States Airlines/AmericanConnection® will discontinue nonstop service between Sioux City, IA. and St. Louis, MO. The last date of service will be March 21, 2002. Until that date, Trans States Airlines will operate 1 weekday round trip flight with reduced flight frequency on weekends.
By: William Mishk
| OST-97-3017 OST-97-3113 |
February 21, 2002 Docketed March 11, 2002 |
Letter
Granting Extension of Time |
Certificate of Public Convenience, Interstate and Foreign |
You
have requested that your client Sky King, Inc., be granted additional relief
from the dormancy provisions of 14 CFR 204.7 of our rules, so that its
certificate authority (see Orders 98-3-26 and 98-4-14, issued March 26, 1998)
would not be revoked. This request was necessary because Sky King was unable to
complete its FAA Part 121 certification by the end of the last extension period
(that is, by January 31, 2002).
By: Patricia Thomas
Transatlantic, Transpacific and Latin American Service Mail Rates Investigation
| OST-96-1629 Docket 37392 |
February 27, 2002 Docketed March 11, 2002 |
Re:
Letter Informing Time and Place of Meeting Concerning Container
Rates for Air Transportation of International Mail |
Transatlantic, Transpacific and Latin American Service Mail Rates Investigation |
The meeting is designed to be an open forum for discussions among the parties. The USPS will open with their reasons on why a container rate for the Atlantic, Pacific, and Latin American Areas is needed. The USPS will also address concerns previously raised by air carriers. Prior to the meeting, air carrier representatives are encouraged to submit container-related topics they want addressed, in outline form without argument. Parties that cannot attend should consider designating a representative, or submitting concise views that will be noted and distributed to the group for consideration.
By: Dennis DeVany
United Air Lines, Inc. and Atlantic Coast Airlines
| OST-01-10680 | February 20, 2002 Docketed March 11, 2002 |
Re:
Letter form Secretary Mineta Concerning Termination of Service |
Waiver of Notice and Early Termination of Service at Mobile, Alabama |
By: Norman Mineta
Volga-Dnepr J.S. Cargo Airline
| OST-02-11782 | Filed March 6, 2002 Issued March 8, 2002 |
Notice of Action Taken |
Emergency Exemption; Denver- Cape Canaveral |
Exemption to permit it to operate one one-way cargo charter flight between Denver, CO, and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL, during the period March 1 l- 18,2002, using its AN- 124 aircraft, to transport outsized cargo consisting of an Atlas V Payload Fairing inside two transport containers on behalf of Lockheed Martin Astronautics. The applicant stated that Lockheed Martin required urgent delivery to complete an aggressive schedule that includes first flight article receipt and subsequent launch processing; that the cargo is too large for transportation on U.S. carrier aircraft; and that surface transportation is not feasible because of the time involved, the adverse effect a long road trip could have on the cargo, and the cargo’s size.
By: Read Van de Water
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