The DOT website has a more descriptive article, detailing what the new slots are: > For services within the perimeter, DOT granted two exemptions each to > AirTran Airways for service to Atlanta; Comair for service to > Jackson, MS or Lexington, KY; Midwest Airlines for service to Kansas > City, MO; Spirit Airlines for service to Detroit; and US Airways for > service to Asheville, NC, Chattanooga, TN, or Wilmington, NC. > > For beyond-perimeter services, the department awarded four exemptions > to Alaska Airlines to provide one daily nonstop flight to Seattle and > one to Los Angeles; two to America West Airlines for service to > Phoenix; four to Frontier Airlines for service to Denver; and two to > United Air Lines also for service to Denver. http://www.dot.gov/affairs/dot4504.htm What I want to know is, why are half of the beyond-perimeter slots going to Denver? Alaska already flies SEA-DCA, America West already flies PHX-DCA, and Frontier already flies DEN-DCA. The only new route is Alaska's LAX-DCA, and United doesn't currently operate in the DEN-DCA market. -- David Mueller / MRY dmueller7@xxxxxxxxx http://www.quanterium.com ...fan of Aloha telling off the DOT