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### Thank you for your letter to Secretary ofTransportation Ray LaHood, supporting the application ofAlaska Airlines, Inc. for two beyond-perimeter slot exemptions at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA). Alaska's application proposes to serve Portland International Airport with one round trip per day from DCA. Secretary LaHood has asked me to respond to your letter. Under authority granted in the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of2012, the U.S. Department ofTransportation will be awarding to new entrant or limited incumbent carriers a total ofeight slot exemptions at DCA, which would support four daily round trips.
We received Alaska's application, which also proposes one daily round trip to San Diego, on March 12. Other timely applications were received from Air Canada, proposing one round trip to Vancouver, British Columbia; Frontier Airlines, one round trip to Colorado Springs and beyond to San Diego; JetBlue Airlines, one round trip to San Juan, Puerto Rico, and one round trip to Austin, Texas; Southwest Airlines, one round trip to Austin and San Diego beyond; Sun Country Airlines, one round trip to Las Vegas; and Virgin America, Inc., two round trips to San Francisco.
As the matter is still pending, I cannot comment on the merits ofthe points raised in your letter. However, Ican assure you that all applications the Department received will be given full and fair consideration and will be evaluated against the selection criteria specified in the statute.

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Re: .A.laska Airlines' application**for.PDX~DCA;Docl,<etNo.DOT-0$T:.20l2~0029.** Pear**Secre~al:'y** LaHood:
This letter is in support of the application of Alaska Airlines to provide one daily roundt;rip £Ji:gb:t betweenReagan National Airport(DCA) and PortlandinternationalAirport(PDX).
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.. Importantly, Alaska has a strong customer service focus, reliable oper.ational performance and. fman¢ial strength. In. sum, we are fortt:ma:te, to have regul1;1t access to the best.**p~rfotming** a:idme in the country, · These qualities ma.l,<e Alaska the ideal carrier to provide Oregon/southwest Washington residentswith their firstnonstop serviceto DCA.
Trespectfully urge you to grant Alaska Airlines' application to ptovid.e**PDX~DOA** servH;:e, That\1,< you for your consid.era:tioJ1.

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