RJ’s at LaGuardia International airport New limits imposed

[john john]

With the changes in LGA airport having to HAVE 50+ seats and the 50 seats jets being obsolete ALPA had a good bargaining position but they BLEW IT…………………
This will affect US operations dramatically


http://www.flightglobal.com/Articles/2006/...+LaGuardia.html
US Airways adjusts fleet plan to prepare for LaGuardia restrictions
For example, he says, the use of smaller aircraft operated by [US Airways Express carriers] Colgan Air and Piedmont Airlines, plus many of the carrier’s affiliates “will be permitted only in small marketsâ€.
To this end, management has been working to alter US Airways’ fleet strategy “to make sure we can meet the future requirementsâ€, says Nocella.
This includes the major’s recent amended feeder deal with two Republic Airways Holdings subsidiaries. Under the pact, Republic Airlines is acquiring 30 86-seat Embraer 175s, while sister carrier Chautauqua Airlines is to cull 20 50-seat Embraer ERJ-145s from the US Airways Express network.


RJ’s at LaGuardia International airport New limits imposed
*Airlines would face loss of slots if their average number of seats per departure fell below a target based on passenger capacity at the airport, which isn't fully used now, and on how many operations would be exempted from the averaging in order to promote service to small communities. Averages would be computed once a year from the previous year's operations. If the average seating capacity for an airline's non-exempt operations fell below the target, the airline would lose its lowest-density slots--slots used by its smallest aircraft--until the average reached the target level. The target would be 105 seats, 116 seats or 122 seats, depending on how many destinations are declared exempt. The more exemptions, the higher the target would have to be for a given passenger throughput. The current average aircraft size is 98 seats.

http://www.aviationnow.com/avnow/news/chan.../aw090406p3.xml
A little history

http://www.house.gov/transportation/aviati....html#WITNESSES
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/TRAVEL/NEWS/0...laguardia.woes/
http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/region/laguardia_notice.html
http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/Trans...pw106-114_1.HTM
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/TRAVEL/NEWS/0...reut/index.html
ALPA blew it they had barging power

 

[PBI2FLL]

This will severely affect Colgan's Saab operation, I'd imagine.

 

[Dorf]

This will severely affect Colgan's Saab operation, I'd imagine.

Airways will just let them fly the 737's instead of the Saab...LOL

 

[john john]

Airways will just let them fly the 737's instead of the Saab...LOL

HELL YEA LIKE WE USED TOOOOOOO
But afraid not APLP gave up to much SCOPE
MARKET SHARE AT LAGUARDIA

AIRLINE PASSENGERS % SHARE
AMERICAN 2,583,737 19.86
DELTA 2,386,361 18.34
US AIRWAYS 1,318,184 10.13
UNITED 806,017 6.19
NORTHWEST 744,840 5.72
SPIRIT 590,561 4.54
CHAUTAUQUA 583,888 4.49
AMERICAN EAGLE 515,495 3.96
COMAIR 499,550 3.84
AIRTRAN 444,649 3.42
OTHERS 2,538,218 19.51
AA # ARE WITHOUT EAGLE

 

[john john]

USA320 were are you no comments on your airport

 

[JAXPax]

Colgan Saabs to Ithaca and the like won't be an issue.... it's airlines running 10 RJs a day to major cities just to hold slots and gates that they want to stop.

 

[LGA / 037]

You can bet B6 was the main one lobbying for this plan as they try to create a presence in LGA. I still would like to know how they got the slots they have now. Back when we first got the original slots and terminal, DL tried pressuring the Port Authority because we were not utilizing the slots. USAir then proceeded to run a Dornier Prop from LGA to Republic Airport to maintain slot utilization.

 

[PropPiedmont]

This will severely affect Colgan's Saab operation, I'd imagine.

Expect to see all those E175s for CHQ to end up in those LGA slots replacing 50 seat RJs. T-Props won't be affected as much as you think.

 

[usairways85]

So will the 175's and 190's go to LGA before they start serving PHL? PHL doesn't have this kind of rule but bigger jets are desperately needed.

 

[john john]

You can bet B6 was the main one lobbying for this plan as they try to create a presence in LGA. I still would like to know how they got the slots they have now. Back when we first got the original slots and terminal, DL tried pressuring the Port Authority because we were not utilizing the slots. USAir then proceeded to run a Dornier Prop from LGA to Republic Airport to maintain slot utilization.

The HDR limits the number of flights per hour at each of these airports during specific times of day. Under the HDR, all aircraft require a “slotâ€￾ to either take-off or land during the restricted period. Airlines acquire slots through an administrative action by the Secretary of Transportation or through a purchase or lease transaction.



Since the FAA had issued the HDR, the agency could have eliminated slot controls itself without any action by Congress. Instead, in the most recent FAA reauthorization process, the Clinton Administration submitted legislation in which it asked Congress to eliminate the slot rule at O’Hare, Kennedy, and LaGuardia in 5 years and to eliminate restrictions on regional jet flights to those airports in 2 years.



The Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century (P.L. 106-181) adopted an approach similar to the Administration’s proposal. AIR 21 eliminated slot controls at O’Hare in 2002 and at Kennedy and LaGuardia in 2007. It also directed FAA to grant slot exemptions for service by new entrant airlines to a high-density airport and for flights using 70-seat or smaller aircraft between a small hub or non-hub airport and a high-density airport.



As a result, air carriers filed roughly 600 slot exemption requests for LaGuardia with the FAA, which led to an additional 300 flights. The increased traffic brought record delays. In September 2000, there were more than 9,000 flight delays at LaGuardia, up from 3,108 in September 1999. In that same month, 25% of flight delays in the U.S. were at LaGuardia, up from 12% in the previous year. Average delays for many afternoon flights at LaGuardia in September exceeded 48 minutes.
Under the plan, FAA capped AIR 21 slot exemptions at 159 per day, beginning on January 31, 2001[2]. This would allow a total of 75 commercial airline flights per hour at LaGuardia. On December 4, 2000, FAA allocated the 159 exemptions via a lottery (often referred to as the “Slotteryâ€￾) to incumbent carriers serving small communities and new entrant airlines.