[Federal Register: October 22, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 203)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
[Docket No. FAA-2007-29320]
Operating Limitations at New York's John F. Kennedy International
Airport, Notice of Meeting and Request for Information
AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice of scheduling reduction meeting and request for
information.
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SUMMARY: The FAA will conduct a meeting to discuss flight restrictions
at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) to reduce
overscheduling and flight delays during peak hours of operation at that
airport. This meeting is open to all scheduled air carriers, regardless
of whether they currently provide scheduled service to JFK, and to the
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which is the airport
operator of JFK. Registration in advance of the meeting is requested.
In addition, the FAA invites interested persons to submit written
information on such schedule reductions. The FAA plans to issue its
decision on scheduling limitations in a final order.
DATES: Scheduling reduction meeting. The FAA will hold the scheduling
reduction meeting on October 23-24, 2007, beginning at 9 a.m., and the
meeting may continue, if necessary, until adjourned by the
Administrator.
Written information: Any written information on the subject of
schedule reductions at JFK, including data and views, must be submitted
by November 6, 2007. To the extent possible, the FAA will consider
late-filled submissions in making its determination in its final order.
ADDRESSES: Scheduling reduction meeting. The meeting will be held in
the Bessie Coleman Room at the Orville Wright Building of the FAA, 800
Independence Ave., SW., Washington, DC.
Written information. You may submit written information, identified
by docket number FAA-2007-29320, by any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to http://www.regulations.gov
and follow the instructions for submitting your
information or comments electronically.
Fax: Fax comments to the Docket Management Facility at 1-
202-493-2251.
Mail: Send information or comments to the Docket
Management Facility, U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue, SE., West Building Ground Floor, Room W12-140, Washington, DC
20590.
Hand Delivery: Bring information or comments to the Docket
Management Facility in Room W12-140 of the West Building Ground Floor
at the Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE.,
Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday,
except Federal holidays.
Instructions: You must include the agency name and docket
number FAA-2007-29320 for this notice at the beginning of the
information that you submit. Note that the information received will be
posted without change to http://www.regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided. Submissions to the docket that include
trade secrets, confidential, commercial, or financial information, or
sensitive security information will not be posted in the public docket.
Such information will be placed in a separate file to which the public
does not have access, and a note will be placed in the public docket to
state that the agency has received such materials from the submitter.
Privacy: We will post all comments we receive, without change,
including any personal information you provide. Using the search
function of the docket Web site, anyone can find and read the
electronic form of all comments received into any of our dockets,
including the name of the individual sending or signing the comment.
You may review DOT's complete Privacy Act Statement in the Federal
Register published on April 11, 2000 (65 FR 19477-78).
Docket: To read background documents or comments received, go to
http://www.regulations.gov at any time and follow the online
instructions for accessing the docket. Alternatively, you may visit the
Docket Management Facility in Room W12-140 of the West Building Ground
Floor of the Department of Transportation at 1200 New Jersey Avenue,
SE., Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday,
except Federal holidays.
Registration: To register for attendance, contact Gerry Shakley at
the numbers provided in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of
this notice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gerry Shakley, System Operations
Services, Air Traffic Organization; telephone--(202) 267-9424;
facsimile--(202) 267-7277; e-mail_gerry.shakly@faa.gov. Registration
must occur on or before October 19, 2007.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Federal Aviation Act (the Act) at 49
U.S.C. 41722, authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to request air
carriers to attend a meeting with the FAA Administrator to discuss
flight schedule reductions at any severely congested airport during
peak operating hours.
Until relatively recently, the FAA managed congestion at JFK
through the High Density Rule (HDR), 14 CFR part 93, subpart K, which
limited aircraft operations at JFK during the five hours of peak
transatlantic demands--3 p.m. through 7:59 p.m. local time.
The HDR is an air traffic rule that establishes limited on the
number of arrivals and departures that can occur from certain airports
during specific, identified hours. The HDR limits flights in order to
manage congestion and delays. Currently, only Washington's Reagan
National Airport is regulated under the HDR. The HDR was formerly
effective at Chicago O'Hare International Airport (O'Hare), New York's
JFK New York's LaGuardia airport (LaGuardia), and Newark's Liberty
International Airport (Newark).
In 2000, Congress, under the aviation Investment and Reform Act for
the 21st Century (AIR-21), called for the phase out of the HDR program
at O'Hare, LaGuardia and JFK.\1\
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\1\ Newark has not been impacted by the HDR since the early days
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The HDR was phased out at JFK as of January 1, 2007, permitting
increased scheduling at JFK during the afternoon hours.\2\ In addition,
since the spring of 2006, JFK has evolved from its traditionally
international role, as U.S. air carriers have significantly increased
their domestic scheduled operations throughout the day. Most of the
increase has come from the two largest operators at the airport, Delta
airlines and JetBlue Airways.
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\2\ Since the expiration of the HDR, the FAA reinstituted caps
at O'Hare, by rule, and at LaGuardia, by FAA order.
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As a result of the increase in scheduled operations at JFK, demand
exceeds the airport's capacity during some periods of the day. During
the morning hours, JFK routinely incurs volume-related delays during
the 7 a.m. through 9 a.m. hours. The afternoon and evening demand at
JFK now exceeds the
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airport's optimal capacity until nearly 10 p.m., denying the airport a
late-day period to recover from congestion-related delays. Traffic
management initiates to accommodate the traffic are now routinely in
use, even under the best operating conditions.
In addition, the relatively pronounced arrival and departure banks
that historically characterized JFK's operations are now supplanted by
mixed arrivals and departures during peak hours. Although JFK has four
runways, it is limited, at most, to a three-runway configuration due to
the shared airspace in the New York area. JFK's maximum efficiency is
achieved using either two arrival runways and one departure runway or
two departure runways and one arrival runway. The recent mixing of
arrivals and departures throughout the day reduces the benefit of
optimizing the configuration of active runways to favor arrivals or
departures, as appropriate, which is a practice that air traffic
control personnel previously employed to tailor JFK's runway
configuration to the historical transatlantic traffic flows.
The increase in scheduled operations at JFK has had a profound
effect on the delays that travelers have experienced there. During the
first nine months of fiscal year 2007, the average daily operations at
JFK increased 23% over the same period in the previous year. Travelers
experienced an average twenty-six minutes of gate arrival delay per
flight, which is an increase from the average eighteen-minute delay
during the same period in fiscal year 2006. The number of arrival
delays exceeding one hour has increased by 114%. The on-time arrival
performance at JFK, which is defined as arrival at the gate within
fifteen minutes of the scheduled time, declined from 70% in the first
ten months of fiscal year 2006 to 61% over the same period in fiscal
year 2007. During June and July 2007, JFK's on-time arrival performance
averaged 59%. At the same time, air carriers continued to announce new
flights for JFK during peak and off-peak hours.
The increased congestion and delays at JFK have had impacts on
other airports in the region and on the National Airspace System.
Newark, LaGuardia and JFK have consistently been among the most delay-
prone airports. While operations at LaGuardia and Newark have been
relatively stable over the past year, JFK's operations have increased
significantly, creating new challenges to accommodate demand safely and
with minimal delay. The recently approved airspace redesign plan for
the New York/New Jersey/Philadelphia metropolitan area documents well
the costs and far-reaching impacts of delays that originate from this
area. Although airspace redesign will provide efficiency gains and
congestion relief, it is neither an immediate nor complete solution.
The FAA, working with the airport operator, carriers and other
customer representatives, has begun to implement a number of short-term
initiatives to improve the efficiency of airport operations and the air
traffic control system, especially during periods of adverse weather
when the effects of overscheduling are more pronounced. Moreover,
airspace redesign will open additional arrival and departure routes in
the New York area to reduce delays and congestion. These measures
alone, however, are not expected to provide sufficient near-term gains
to accommodate the peak hour schedules at JFK's current or forecast
levels of demand.
Several air carriers have indicated to the FAA their willingness to
adjust their schedules during peak hours to improve on-time
performance, reduce congestion, and reduce delay-related operational
costs. These carriers cite the experience at O'Hare in 2004 when the
FAA had a voluntary agreement to twice reduce schedules by American
Airlines and United Airlines, the largest operators at that airport,
but ultimately convened a scheduling reduction meeting under 49 U.S.C.
41722 so that other carriers did not simply backfill schedule
reductions and negate congestion relief. The FAA finds merit in these
arguments as we did in the case of O'Hare.
Based on these and other factors, the Administrator has determined,
pursuant to the Act, that JFK is a severely congested airport and that
a scheduling reduction meeting is necessary in order to discuss flight
reductions in an effort to reduce overscheduling and flight delays at
JFK during peak operating hours. The Secretary of Transportation has
also determined, pursuant to the Act, that a scheduling reduction
meeting regarding flight reductions at JFK is necessary to meet a
serious transportation need or to achieve an important public benefit.
In light of these determinations, the FAA will conduct a scheduling
reduction meeting pursuant to the Act.
As dictated by statute, the scheduling reduction meeting will only
address planned operations by domestic air carriers. With the exception
of Canadian air carriers, which are treated as domestic air carriers by
virtue of an agreement with Canada, the scheduled operations of foreign
air carriers are managed under a process defined by the International
Air Transport Association (IATA). The FAA has already initiated steps
under the IATA process to manage the scheduled operations of foreign
air carriers at JFK that are complementary to the scheduling reduction
meeting.
The FAA will convene the scheduling reduction meeting on October
23, 2007, beginning at 9 a.m., and will continue at least through the
following day. The meeting may continue, if necessary, until adjourned
by the Administrator. As provided in the Act, no later than forty-eight
hours before convening the meeting, the FAA will identify on the FAA's
Web site, http://www.faa.gov, the peak period of operation at JFK and
the FAA's targets for flight operations during those periods.
The FAA will transcribe the scheduling reduction meeting, including
those sessions in which air carriers offer flight reductions to the
FAA, as provided for by the procedures outlined below. The transcript
and other documents related to the meeting will be available for
inspection in Department of Transportation Docket FAA-2007-29320. In
addition, any interested person may submit written information to the
public docket no later than November 6, 2007. The docket may be
accessed via the Internet at http://www.regulations.gov or at the
Docket Management Facility for the Department of Transportation.
After conducting the scheduling reduction meeting and considering
all submitted information, the FAA will publish its final order on
delay reductions at JFK in the Federal Register. The order is expected
to be effective through at least the summer 2008 scheduling season and
may restrict service during peak hours by all carriers, including
carriers that are not currently operating at JFK.
Additionally, the FAA is considering appropriate measures to
address charters and other unscheduled flights at JFK. Under the HDR,
unscheduled operations were severely constrained during the afternoon
hours at JFK. Specifically, only two unscheduled operations were
permitted in each afternoon hour other than the 1700 hour (5 p.m.),
when no unscheduled operations were permitted. Likewise, unscheduled
operations at O'Hare have been restricted to four per hour since the
imposition of Arrival Authorizations at that airport in 2004.
To ensure that proper accommodations are afforded at the meeting,
all scheduled carriers that wish to attend the scheduling reduction
meeting should register for the meeting on or before October 19, 2007.
Registration may be accomplished by
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contacting Gerry Shakley, System Operations Services, Air Traffic
Organization; telephone--(202) 267-9424; facsimile--(202) 267-7277;
e-mail_gerry.shakley@faa.gov, identifying the air carrier and its
intention to attend the meeting, and identifying who will represent the
air carrier at the meeting.
The FAA is currently conducting modeling based on the August 30,
2007 published schedule information from the Official Airline Guide. We
will review the planned schedules for summer 2008, which carriers were
to provide by October 11, 2007 (72 FR 54317, September 24, 2007). The
FAA's Air Traffic Organization will work with individual carriers to
validate the schedule information to be used by the FAA during the
course of the scheduling reduction meeting.
Because the scheduling reduction meeting and all preparations for
it are subject to the U.S. antitrust laws, the FAA has worked closely
with the Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, on procedures for
conducting the meeting in a way that should facilitate legal
compliance. As noted in this correspondence, communications among
carriers regarding competitively sensitive information could result in
a violation of the antitrust laws and lead to civil or criminal
liability. Thus, the procedures outlined in the notice provide for a
series of scheduling reduction sessions to be conducted separately by
FAA staff with each air carrier attending the meeting. We may also meet
with representatives of the airport operator. During those sessions any
scheduled air carrier or the airport operator in attendance may provide
other supplemental information to the FAA regarding the targeted
schedule reductions at JFK. The FAA requests the cooperation of all
participants at the meeting in adhering to the procedures outlined in
the notice.
The text of the FAA letter describing the planned procedures and
the text of the Department of Justice letter assessing those procedures
are as follows:
September 21, 2007
Thomas O. Barnett, Esq., Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust
Division, Room 3109, U.S. Department of Justice, 950 Pennsylvania
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20530-0001.
Dear Mr. Barnett:
We anticipate that the Secretary of Transportation will soon
determine, pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 41722,\3\ that it is necessary to
convene a meeting of air carriers with the Administrator of the Federal
Aviation Administration (FAA) to discuss flight reductions at New
York's John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) in an effort to
reduce overscheduling and flight delays during peak hours of operation.
Because of severe congestion at that airport and the resulting delays
and inconveniences to the traveling public, the Administrator intends
to convene such a meeting in the immediate future. The purpose of this
letter is to describe the format and procedures for the meeting and to
ensure that, provided the meeting is conducted in accordance with this
letter, the Department of Justice would not seek to challenge as a
violation of the U.S. Antitrust laws any air carrier's attendance at or
participation in the meeting or an air carrier's unilateral actions
taken to comply with an Order of the Administrator issued as a result
of the meeting.
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\3\ [The text of a footnote quoting 49 U.S.C. 41722 is omitted
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Meeting Procedures
1. Notice to Air Carriers and Other Interested Parties
To assist the Administrator in formulating flight reduction
targets, as contemplated by 49 U.S.C. 41722, and to identify the air
carriers that will attend the meeting, the Administrator will send a
letter notifying the JFK airport operator and each scheduled air
carrier serving JFK of the meeting. The letter will describe the
necessity for the meeting and will identify the periods during a
representative business day that the Administrator considers severely
congested. The letter also will establish either the date and time for
the meeting or a period during which the meeting is expected to take
place. It will designate a location in the Washington, DC area as the
meeting's location. The letter will advise that the meeting and all
preparations for it are subject to the antitrust laws and that
communication among air carriers regarding competitively sensitive
information, such as markets served, prices charged, and marketing
plans, could result in a violation of the antitrust laws. Copies of the
letter will be sent to the Antitrust Division, as well as to the Air
Transport Association, Regional Airline Association, and Air Carrier
Association of America.
The FAA Air Traffic Organization (ATO) will separately provide the
JFK airport operator and each air carrier serving JFK with a summary
showing the FAA's current information as to scheduled arrivals and
departures at JFK (including code-share flights) for each air carrier
during each 15 minute period from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. on a representative
business day. The FAA's focus on these hours is for overall planning
purposes only, and it does not necessarily reflect the peak hours of
operation at JFK. A letter enclosed with this summary will request that
each air carrier confirm the FAA's current information as to that air
carrier's scheduled operations at JFK, respond as to whether the air
carrier will attend the scheduling reduction meeting, and, if the air
carrier will attend, identify its representative.
The FAA also will publish in the Federal Register a notice of the
meeting that identifies the basis for the meeting, when and where the
meeting will take place, and the manner in which the meeting will be
conducted. The Federal Register notice will invite all scheduled air
carriers to attend and will specify that a transcript of the meeting
will be available for inspection in a public docket opened within three
business days after the Administrator formally adjourns the scheduling
reduction meeting.
2. Establishment and Notice of Flight Reduction Targets
The Administrator shall establish flight reduction targets, based
on the number of flight operations scheduled for a representative
business day. As required by the statute, at least 48 hours prior to
the meeting, the Administrator will publish notice of these targets on
the FAA's Web site. The notice will specify the total number of
reductions sought from the total number of flight operations conducted.
The notice will not include carrier-specific limitations, targets, or
suggested reductions.
3. Conduct of the Meeting
The meeting will be conducted under the following procedures:
a. The meeting will be chaired by the Administrator or by a
delegate of the Administrator.
b. The meeting will be open to attendance by the JFK airport
operator and all scheduled air carriers, and the FAA will transcribe
the meeting.
c. Representatives of the Department of Justice will be invited to
attend.
d. At the beginning of the meeting, the FAA will announce that,
pursuant to advice from the Department of Justice, no communication
will be permitted by any air carrier representative in the presence of
any representative of another air carrier regarding the subject of
flight reductions at JFK or regarding any other competitively sensitive
information, including but not limited to markets served, prices
charged, and marketing plans.
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e. The Administrator will then distribute to the meeting's
attendees a list of the number of flights, not specific as to air
carrier, during each 15-minute period from 6 a.m. until 11 p.m. on a
representative business day, and he will identify any periods that he
considers severely congested, as well as general targets for flight
reductions during those periods. This list will not include carrier-
specific limitations, targets, or suggested reductions.
f. Each air carrier serving JFK and attending the meeting will then
be invited into a separate and confidential session with
representatives of the ATO, at which the air carrier will be asked to
offer flight reductions or schedule modifications. Only representatives
of that air carrier and the U.S. government will be permitted to attend
the offer sessions; however, the sessions will be transcribed.
g. Any offer of flights reductions should specify the precise
number of arrivals and departures, if any, the submitting air carrier
is willing to remove from each of the severely congested periods
identified by the Administrator, indicating whether the flight
operation(s) would be cancelled or moved to another time period. The
offer may not be explicitly contingent on specific flight reductions by
other air carriers but may be conditioned on the Administrator's
implementation of an overall reduction of specified numbers of flight
operations toward the target during the periods in question. The offer
may not contain information from the air carrier on markets served,
prices charged, marketing plans or other competitively sensitive
matters.
h. After the completion of all such sessions, the ATO will: (1)
Review the offers made; (2) revise, in light of the offers made, the
list of the number of flights, not specific as to air carrier, during
each 15-minute period from 6 a.m. until 11 p.m. on a representative
business day; and (3) consult with the Administrator. The Administrator
will distribute to the meeting's attendees the carrier non-specific
list of the number of flights on a representative business day, and he
will identify any periods that he continues to consider severely
congested and identify targets for flight reductions during those
periods.
i. At his discretion, the Administrator or his delegate may repeat
steps (f) through (h), and he may continue the schedule reduction
meeting as he deems necessary.
j. If the Administrator determines that identifying carrier-
specific targets would facilitate voluntary flight reductions and
schedule modifications, the Administrator may advise each air carrier
separately and confidentially of flight reduction targets specific to
that air carrier. No carrier-specific information will be provided to
any air carrier other than information regarding that air carrier;
however, the Administrator may make general assurances with respect to
the overall proportionality of the flight reductions among the air
carriers serving JFK.
k. Following the Administrator's identification of further flight
reduction targets, each air carrier attending the meeting that serves
JFK will be invited to a separate and confidential session with
representatives of the ATO, at which the air carrier will be given the
opportunity to submit a new or revised offer of flight reductions or
schedule modifications.
l. At his discretion, the Administrator or his delegate may repeat
steps (j) and (k), and he may continue the schedule reduction meeting
as he deems necessary.
m. The Administrator may terminate the schedule reduction meeting
at his discretion.
4. Order of the Administrator Concerning Delays at JFK
The ATO will review the final offers of each air carrier attendee
of the meeting and recommend a proposed flight reduction plan to the
Administrator. After the Administrator's review and approval of the
plan, the resulting schedule reductions, including carrier-specific
limitations, will be published in the Federal Register as a final order
of the Administrator. The final order of the Administrator will specify
a method by which air carriers adversely affected by the order may be
relieved of its effect. The order will also be subject to modification
by the Administrator.
Please advise if the procedures are acceptable to you.
Sincerely,
Kerry B. Long, Chief Counsel
September 24, 2007
Kerry B. Long, Esq., Chief Counsel, U.S. Department of Transportation,
Federal Aviation Administration, 800 Independence Ave, SW., Washington,
DC 20591.
Re: Proposed JFK Airport Delay Reduction Meeting
Dear Mr. Long:
This letter is written in response to your September 21, 2007
letter describing the planned format of a meeting of air carriers with
the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (``FAA'') to
discuss flight reductions at New York's John F. Kennedy International
Airport (``JFK''). The meeting is being called because the Secretary of
Transportation has determined, pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 41722, that the
meeting is necessary to reduce flight delays during peak hours of
operation. You seek assurances that, provided the meeting and related
activities are conducted as described in your letter, the Department of
Justice would not seek to challenge as a violation of the antitrust
laws any air carrier's attendance at or participation in the meeting or
any carrier's unilateral actions taken to comply with an Order of the
Administrator issued as a result of the meeting.
According to your letter, all carriers participating in the meeting
will be advised that the meeting and all preparations for it are
subject to the antitrust laws and that communications among carriers
regarding competitively sensitive information, such as markets served,
prices charged, and marketing plans, could result in a violation of the
antitrust laws and lead to civil or criminal liability. At the
beginning of the meeting, the Administrator (or his delegee) will
announce that, pursuant to advice from the Department of Justice, no
communication will be permitted by any air carrier representative in
the presence of any representative of another air carrier regarding
flight reductions at JFK or any other competitively sensitive subject,
including but not limited to markets served, prices charged, and
marketing plans.
Prior to the meeting, the Administrator will establish flight
reduction targets, based on the number of flight operations scheduled
on a representative business day. The Administrator will publish notice
of these targets on the FAA Web site at least 48 hours prior to the
meeting, as required by statute. The notice will specify the total
number of reductions to be sought from the total number of flight
operations conducted. The notice will not include carrier-specific
limitations, targets or suggested reductions.
At the meeting, the Administrator will distribute a list of flights
currently scheduled each 15-minute period from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m.,
indicate any periods that he considers to be severely congested, and
provide general targets for flight reductions during those periods,
which will not identify which carriers flights are targeted to be moved
or eliminated. Each carrier will then be invited into a separate,
confidential discussion with the Administrator during which the carrier
will be asked to offer specific flight reductions or scheduled,
changes, which shall not be
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contingent on reductions offered by another carrier or carriers.
After completion of the individual carrier sessions, the
Administrator will revise the list of flights to reflect the individual
discussions with the carriers. The carriers will again be given this
list which will not identify flights by carrier. If the Administrator
believes that severely congested time periods still exist, he may set
revised targets and repeat the individual sessions with carriers.
If the Administrator determines that identifying carrier-specific
targets is necessary to facilitate voluntary flight reductions and
schedule modifications, he may advise each carrier separately and
confidentially of flight reduction targets specific to that carrier,
which information will not be given to any other carrier or carriers.
The Administrator may also make a general assurance with respect to the
overall proportionality of the flight reductions being sought by the
FAA from carriers serving JFK.
The Administrator will develop and approve a proposed flight
reduction plan and schedule reduction, which will be published in the
Federal Register as a final order.
Importantly, the procedures do not provide for any meetings among
the carriers without the FAA present. The procedures will not allow any
discussion or negotiation among carriers about flight reductions,
prices charged, or markets served. During the course of the meetings,
carriers will not be told schedule reductions or modifications other
carriers are offering or being asked to offer.
For these reasons, the Department is not presently inclined to
initiate antitrust enforcement action against any carrier that
participates in the FAA's flight reduction meeting and conducts itself
in the manner described in your September 21 letter. This expresses the
Department's current enforcement intention regarding the carriers'
participation in the flight reductions meeting. The Department reserves
the right to bring an enforcement action against any conduct that
violated the antitrust laws.
Yours sincerely,
Thomas O. Barnett
Issued in Washington, DC, on October 16, 2007.
Kerry B. Long,
Chief Counsel.
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