OST-00-7082 - Continental Express - LaGuardia- 21 U.S.- Cities

OST-00-7082

Continental Express, Inc.

OST-00-7082	March 16, 2000	Application for Exemption Scanned Copy	LaGuardia- 21 U.S.- Cities
		Exhibit A: LaGuardia Arrivals & Departures
		Service List

Thanks to the Wendell H. Ford Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21^st Century and Continental Express, 21 small-hub and nonhub cities starved for competitive New York LaGuardia service can now receive nonstop service using quiet, fuel-efficient Embraer RJ aircraft. To provide such service, Continental Express applies for 146 slot exemptions at LaGuardia.

Counsel: Crowell Moring, Bruce Keiner, 202.624.2500, rbkeiner@cromor.com

Continental Express, Inc., Delta Connection Carriers; Comair, Inc., Atlantic Southeast Airlines, Inc., and Atlantic Coast Jets, Inc.

OST-00-7082 OST-00-7131	April 10, 2000	Motion for Leave to File and Answer of the St. Joseph County Airport Authority HTML	LaGuardia Regional Jet Service
		Attachment A: South Bend Merits Better New York Service
		Attachment B: Service and Traffic Details for Attachment A
		Service List

Thus it is obvious that these two applications attempt to use slot exemptions to obtain new service for the largest markets that have already received good service. Markets historically lacking good service are excluded, even where, as in the case of South Bend, they already have high New York traffic and are at good distances (New York-South Bend is 645 miles, Asheville is 592, and Wilmington, NC, is only 496). For the foregoing reasons, the Department should carefully consider the nature of the service proposed by Continental Express and the Delta Connection Carriers herein and encourage these carriers and others to use the expanded LaGuardia slot authority provided by the Air 21 Act to meet the needs of small and non-hub communities such as South Bend that are truly starved for nonstop New York service.

Counsel: Steptoe Johnson, Richard Taylor, 202.429.6459

Continental Express, Inc.

OST-00-7082	April 12, 2000 Docketed April 18, 2000	Motion for Leave to File Late Answer and Answer of the Office of the Queens Borough President City of New York, in Opposition HTML	LaGuardia- 21 U.S. Cities
		Service List

Counsel: Queens Borough President's Office, Hugh Weinberg, 718.286.2880

Wendell H. Ford Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century

OST-00-7175 OST-00-7082	April 20, 2000	Certification of Continental Express Scanned Copy	LaGuardia- 21 Cities
		Attachment Arrivals and Departures

The March 16, 2000, Continental Express application in Docket OST-00-7082 stated the list of small-hub and non-hub communities and airports to be served, that the aircraft used to provide the service have fewer than 71 seats, the planned effective dates, that the proposed service represents new Continental Express service when compared to service as of the week of November 1, 1999, and the number of slot exemptions needed to provide the service. The Continental Express Embraer 135 and 145 aircraft are Stage 3 compliant, and the slot times now required are shown in Exhibit A.

Counsel: Continental Express, James Ream