Applications and Petitions: None Answers and Replies: None Orders and Notices: Operating Limitations at LGA - Notice of Order Rules and Regulations: None Grant of Petitions: None

	Operating Limitations at New York LaGuardia Airport FAA-2006-25755 Issued November 2, 2007 Notice of Order As Published in the Federal Register - November 8, 2007 Some carriers opposed the weighted lottery system. Delta argued that the proposal is "unfair to carriers that operate substantial levels of service, and have made significant investments in operations." The FAA believes, however, that through the following explanation, Delta and others will have a better understanding of why the FAA continues to support the proposal and has decided to include it in the Order subject to one modification related to the baseline protection of 20 OAs. Under the weighted lottery system, a lottery would be implemented each time we needed to withdraw an OA. All air carriers holding OAs at the airport would be included, regardless of what period of the day needed to be depeaked. In this way, any air carrier operating at LaGuardia assumes the risk, based on its share of operations at the airport, of having OAs withdrawn. Weights will be established based on the proportionate share of OAs the carrier holds at the airport. For example, if an air carrier has a weight equal to 30, the carrier's name will be placed in a random thaw 30 times. The random draw by an FAA representative would establish the order in which carriers need to relinquish OAs. While there is more of a likelihood that a carrier with greater operations at LaGuardia will be randomly chosen first, any air carrier holding OAs, including carriers with limited presence at the airport, as explained below, could be chosen. Carriers would relinquish two OAs in each sequence until the FAA's reduced level of operations by half‑hour or hour, as appropriate, has been achieved. By: FAA, Ken Lang Index