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Frontier Airlines, Inc. (Exemption, LaGuardia Slots)
OST-97-2230 | May 8, 1997
Motion for Leave to File and Surreply of
United Air Lines
Just as the U.S. is signing an unprecedented number of "open skies" agreements with its trading partners around the world, new entrants in the domestic market are pushing relentlessly for a return to price and service regulation. These are the same protectionistic practices the U.S. is trying to dissolve through its negotiations for "open skies" agreements; they should not be re-established at home.
Counsel: United and Ginsburg Feldman, Joel Burton, 202-637-9130
Chicago O’Hare and New York LaGuardia Slots / Frontier Airlines, ValuJet, AirTran, Western Pacific (Exemptions from High Density Rule)
OST-97-2230, 97-2442, 97-2557, 95-277 | July 9, 1997
Motion for Leave to File an Answer and
Answer of Air Carrier Association of America
It is time for the Department of Transportation to reject the duplicitous arguments of the large carriers and create "open skies" in this country. The inability of affordable fare carriers to obtain slots prevented meaningful competition at LaGuardia and O'Hare for the summer of 1997. Now is the time for the Department to take the steps necessary to provide access for new entrants at the high density airports. Providing the slots requested will have minimal impact economic impact -- but not acting will have a negative impact on the costs for millions of travelers and the future economic growth of communities throughout this country.
By: Edward Faberman, Executive Director, 202-778-4462
Frontier Airlines, Inc. (Exemption, High Density Rule, New York LaGuardia)
OST-97-2230
Letter from Peter F. Vallone, Councilman dated July 3, 1997
Letter from Senator George Onorato dated July 3, 1997
Editor’s Note: Letters available as soon as the Docket Section scans
OST-97-2230 | OST-97-2442 | OST-97-2557 | OST-95-277 | July 15, 1997
US Airways strongly objects to both ACAA's highly intemperate attacks on US Airways and its confused attempt to link the fundamentally different issues of Heathrow access with its members' applications for waivers of DOT's domestic slot rules. If DOT accepts for consideration ACAA's unauthorized filing, US Airways requests that DOT also accept this Reply and, on the basis of the points set forth above, reject the spurious argument of ACAA.
Attachment – Letter from President of the Borough of Queens to Rodney Slater – June 10, 1997
Counsel: US Airways and Zuckert Scoutt, Richard Mathias, 202-298-8660
Chicago O’Hare and New York LaGuardia Slots / Fontier Airlines, Inc. / ValuJet / AirTran / Western Pacific (Exemptions, High Density Rule)
OST-97-2230 | 97-2442 | OST-97-2557 | OST-95-277 | July 18, 1997
Motion for Leave to File and Reply of Trans
World Airlines
The Department would be hard pressed to justify transfer of any slots to any of the applicants in these dockets. Valujet and Frontier propose only duplicative service to hubs of major airlines. Each hub already has ample competitive service to the New York area. Western Pacific already provides competitive service between Chicago and Colorado Springs, and its pleading claims to have done well on the route. It demonstrates that low fare carriers can compete quite effectively by using other airports to serve major destinations. Airtran proposes distinctly inferior use of valuable frequencies. For example, if TWA were to lose a LaGuardia slot to Airtran for service to Toledo, TWA would be unable to provide a full pattern of service to its major St. Louis hub. This would deprive passengers at numerous points behind St. Louis of the competitive alternative offered by TWA. In a perfect world, it would be nice to allow everyone to serve LaGuardia from everywhere. However, the present slot allocation system under which major hub carriers have put slots to their highest use -- full daily patterns to competitive hubs -- has created the most efficient and competitive air transportation system in the world. The Department will not be able to justify reducing hub competition in order to accommodate the desires of cities with limited traffic volume for nonstop service to LaGuardia.
Counsel: TWA and Richard Fahy, 202-457-4764
Chicago O’Hare and New York LaGuardia Slots | Frontier Airlines, Inc., ValuJet Airlines, Inc., AirTran Airways, Inc., Western Pacific Airlines, Inc. (Exemptions, High Density Rule)
OST-97-2230 | OST-97-2442 | OST-97-2557 | OST-95-277 | July 23, 1997
Motion for Leave to File and Reply of Delta
Air Lines
ACAA's attempt to establish alleged inconsistencies in the positions of Delta and other carriers by taking selective quotes out of context is misguided and irrelevant. ACAA fails to comprehend the fundamental factual, policy and legal differences between the captioned applications and the issues presented in the AA-BA alliance, which render any comparisons meaningless. ACAA's filing is largely an attack on the validity of the highdensity and buy-sell rules, and ignores the fact that 49 U.S.C. § 41714(c) allows the grant of an exemption for qualified new entrants only if the applicants demonstrate "exceptional circumstances." As previously noted by Delta and other participants in the captioned dockets, the high density rule has been examined on numerous occasions by the Department and in each instance it was determined that the rule should not be disturbed. While the Department has the authority to decide the mechanism by which slots are allocated, a major revision of the high density rule and slot allocation procedures would require formal rulemaking procedures and is clearly beyond the scope of the instant applications.
Counsel: Delta and Shaw Pittman, Robert Cohn, 202-663-8060
Frontier Airlines, Inc. (High Density Rule, LaGuardia)
OST-97-2230
Correspondence - Ivan Lafayette, NY State Assembly; Catharine Abate,
NY State Assembly
OST-97-2230 | OST-97-2442 | OST-97-2557 | OST-95-277 | OST-97-2771 | OST-97-2870 | September 4, 1997
The Air Carrier Association of America ("ACAA") hereby moves for leave to file this Reply' to respond to the various replies filed by United, US Airways, Delta and TWA regarding the Applications of Frontier Airlines, ValuJet Airlines, Inc., Air Tran Airways, Inc., Western Pacific, Inc., and Reno Air ("affordable fare carriers") to gain access to LaGuardia Airport in New York City ("LaGuardia") and O'Hare International Airport ("O'Hare").
Counsel : Edward Faberman, 202 778 4462
Frontier Airlines, Inc. / ValuJet Airlines, Inc. / AirTran Airways, Inc. (Exemptions from High Density Rule, New York LaGuardia)
Order 97-10-17 | OST-97-2230 | OST-97-2442 | OST-97-2557 | Issued and Served October 24, 1997
Order
Granting and Denying Applications for Slot Exemptions at New
York's LaGuardia Airport
After considering applications for exemptions from 14 CFR Part 93, Subparts K and S. for slots at New York's LaGuardia Airport, the Department has decided to grant six slot exemptions to Frontier Airlines, Inc. ("Frontier"), for service in the Denver, CO-LaGuardia market; eleven slot exemptions to ValuJet Airlines, Inc. ("ValuJet"), for service in the Atlanta, GA-LaGuardia market; and four slot exemptions to AirTran Airways, Inc. ("AirTran") for service in the Knoxville. TN-LaGuardia market. We find that granting these exemptions is in the public interest and meets the statutory "exceptional circumstances. test. Grant of the exemptions is conditioned on their being used solely for the markets designated in the carriers' applications. The Department has also decided to deny the remainder of AirTran's application for eight slot exemptions for service between LaGuardia and four other points.
By: Charles Hunnicutt
| OST-97-2230 | March 21, 2001 | Re: Possible Cessation of Frontier's Flights 500 and 583 between Denver and LaGuardia | From K and S (Slot Restrictions At New York Laguardia Airport) |
By: Bradley Mims
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