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By Mike Mitchell |
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March 23, 2010 - Delta Air Lines and US Airways
announced an agreement to transfer to four airlines 12 percent of the
takeoff and landing slots involved in a previously announced transaction
between the carriers at In comments filed with the |
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AirTran, Spirit, WestJet and JetBlue are each considered limited incumbents or new entrant airlines by the FAA at these airports. In today's filings, the four airlines urged the government to approve the proposed Delta-US Airways slot transaction. Under Delta's and US Airways' originally announced
proposal, US Airways would transfer 125 operating slot pairs to Delta at
LaGuardia and Delta would transfer 42 operating slot pairs to US Airways
at Reagan National. As previously outlined by Delta
and US Airways, the airlines' proposed transaction would add flights to
a number of cities from both the |
In Washington,
D.C., US Airways will add 15 new, daily destinations to its schedule,
including eight routes that currently have no daily nonstop service to
Reagan National on any airline. US Airways plans to fly to all of the
destinations that Delta decides to discontinue as a result of this
transaction. The airline also will significantly expand its use of
larger dual-class jets by nearly 50 percent at Reagan National. |
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