Applications and Petitions: None Answers and Replies: LaGuardia Congestion Management - Comments of Florida Aviation Test Center O'Hare Operations Limitations - Comments of United on Request of jetBlue Orders and Notices: None Rules and Regulations: None Grant of Petitions: None

	Chicago O'Hare International Airport Operations Limitations FAA-2004-16944 October 4, 2006 Comments of United Air Lines on Request of jetBlue Airways JetBlue Airways sought approval for eight arrival authorizations at O'Hare International Airport pursuant to the Order issued by the Administrator on August 18, 2004. The eight arrival authorizations for which JetBlue seeks approval (between 8:30 a.m. and 6:00 p.m.) are to become effective at some unspecified date in November 2006, after the August 2004 Order has terminated. JetBlue's request is being made at the wrong time, in the wrong way, and under the wrong regulatory authority. Accordingly, it should be denied. This is not to say that JetBlue will be unable to obtain arrival authorizations for service at O'Hare that it hopes to initiate in November 2006. There are at least five options for obtaining such authorizations - two under the proposed revision of paragraph 6 of the August 2004 Order; and three under the final O'Hare Congestion and Delay Reduction rule that takes effect on October 29, 2006. By availing itself of any of these options in accordance with the terms of the soon-to-be-modified August 2004 Order or the soon-to-be-effective O'Hare Congestion and Delay Reduction rule, JetBlue could acquire Arrival Authorizations as provided by applicable regulatory mechanisms. It may not, however, disregard the mechanisms the FAA has established and assign itself Arrival Authorizations through an unauthorized procedure of its own devising. JetBlue must operate in accordance with the regulatory rules of the road, just as all other carriers must do. Because its current request ignores those rules, it must be denied. Counsel: Wilmer Hale, Bruce Rabinovitz, 202-663-6960, bruce.rabinovitz@wilmerhale.com Index New York LaGuardia Airport Congestion Management FAA-2006-25709 October 4, 2006 Comments of the Florida Aviation Test Center I agree there is a congestion problem at LaGuardia Airport and the surrounding airports. However, I think the FAA is making a big mistake by creating another rule that helps to control airport congestion. The FAA is putting itself in a position to monitor all airports individually and not as a whole as per their real role. They are telling the airport what size aircraft can be used and how many passengers can be allowed under operational limits. The previous temporary rule in 1969 has not solved the real problem. Let the HDR expire and allow the free market system a chance to solve it. Legislation is not the proper method for managing the National Airspace System. By: Richard Duley Index