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OST-00-7114

American Trans Air, Inc.

Hereby requests an to permit ATA to maintain beyond June 15, 2000 its current limited level of Chicago Midway-LaGuardia service. Even though the Department is likely to be receiving many applications requesting large numbers of LaGuardia slots under the new Act, ATA Is requesting just one slot exemption for an 830 a.m. operation at LaGuardia Airport, effective June 15.  Unless ATA receives the single additional slot it is requesting by June 15, ATA will be forced to cancel its fifth daily roundtrip in the Midway-LaGuardia market. In operating its five daily roundtrip flights, ATA will be utilizing ten slots including five slots awarded to ATA by the Department through the exemption process, several slots leased from other air carriers, and one slot previously used by Access Air and granted on a temporary basis to ATA by the FAA. However, on June 15, 2000, ATA will lose the former Access Air slot which will be transferred to Midway Express. Therefore, unless the Department grants ATA's exemption request for a replacement slot, ATA will be compelled to terminate one of its existing daily roundtrip flights in the Chicago Midway-LaGuardia market.

There is no question that award of this single slot to ATA will result in greater economic benefit than virtually any other LaGuardia slot award the Department may make. ATA's Midway-LaGuardia low fare service has already generated enormous public benefits. ATA's low fare Midway- LaGuardia nonstop service, first inaugurated in July 1998, remains the only nonstop service in the market. The vast size of the Chicago-New York market, the 23 nonstop destinations ATA serves beyond its Chicago Midway hub, the 216-seat B-757 aircraft ATA principally uses to serve LaGuardia and ATA's established track record as a low-cost and low-fare carrier guarantee that ATA has thus far made, and will continue to make, much greater use of each and every LaGuardia slot - in terms of passengers carried and seats per slot - than virtually any other carrier. Even though ATA until recently has been limited to just three daily roundtrips and has not had access to slots at the most desirable hours, ATA has carried more than 450,000 passengers on its Chicago Midway-LaGuardia nonstop flights - an irrefutable indication of the substantial consumer benefits generated by ATA's service. ATA's low fares - when compared to the significantly higher fares in the O'Hare-LaGuardia market - have also saved millions of dollars for ATA's passengers.

Counsel:  ATA and Squire Sanders, Marshall Sinick, 202-626-6651

American Trans Air, Inc. 

Counsel:  Squire Sanders, Marshall Sinick, 202.626.6651

American Trans Air, Inc. 

• 1. ATA holds or operates fewer than twenty (20) slots at LaGuardia Airport, and has held or operated fewer than twenty (20) slots at LaGuardia Airport since December 6, 1985.
• 2. ATA will utilize its slots to serve Chicago (Midway) from LaGuardia, Airport.
• 3. All aircraft to be utilized in this service are Stage 3 compliant.
• 4. The effective date for slots requested hereunder is September 15, 2000 (four slots).
• 5. ATA requests four (4) slot exemptions for use at LaGuardia Airport.
• 6. ATA requests slots at the following times:

Slot 1: 1600 A Slot 2: 1830 D
Slot 3: 1900 A Slot 4: 1930 D

Counsel:  Squire Sanders, Marshall Sinick, 202.626.6651

The Wendell H. Ford Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century (Slot Exemptions); American Trans Air, Inc. 

Counsel:  Squire Sanders, Marshall Sinick, 202.626.6651

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