BEFORE THE

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

WASHINGTON, D.C.

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Joint Application of :

 : 

UNITED AIRLINES, INC. and : Docket DOT-OST-2014-0129

SKYWEST AIRLINES, INC. : and

 : Docket DOT-OST-2014-0130

for exemption pursuant to 49 U.S.C. § 40109 and :

designations (Houston-Mexico City, Mexico) :

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JOINT REPLY OF

UNITED AIRLINES, INC. AND

SKYWEST AIRLINES, INC. 

Communications with respect to this document should be sent to:

Steve Morrissey

Vice President-Regulatory & Policy

UNITED AIRLINES, INC.

1225 New York Avenue, NW

Suite 1100 – DCAIZ

Washington, DC 20005

(202) 521-4373

steve.morrissey@united.com

Daniel A. Weiss

Managing Director-International

 Affairs and Regulatory

UNITED AIRLINES, INC.

233 South Wacker Drive

10th Floor – HDQIZ

Chicago, IL 60606

(872) 825-6828

dan.weiss@united.com

Todd Emerson

General Counsel

SKYWEST AIRLINES, INC.

444 South River Road

St. George, UT 84790

(435) 634-3530

temerson@skywest.com

August 22, 2014

Thomas Newton Bolling

Vice President and Deputy General Counsel

Abby L. Bried

Associate General Counsel-Regulatory, 

 Alliances & International

James Conneely

Counsel-Regulatory

UNITED AIRLINES, INC.

233 South Wacker Drive

11th Floor – HDQLD

Chicago, IL 60606

(872) 825-8068

(872) 825-7415

(872) 825-8311

thomas.bolling@united.com

abby.bried@united.com

james.conneely@united.com

Gerald F. Murphy

Steven J. Seiden

CROWELL & MORING LLP

1001 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20004

(202) 624-2500

gmurphy@crowell.com

sseiden@crowell.com

Counsel for

United Airlines, Inc. 

and SkyWest Airlines, Inc.
BEFORE THE

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

WASHINGTON, D.C.

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Joint Application of :

: 

UNITED AIRLINES, INC. and : Docket DOT-OST-2014-0129

SKYWEST AIRLINES, INC. : and

: Docket DOT-OST-2014-0130

for exemption pursuant to 49 U.S.C. § 40109 and :

designations (Houston-Mexico City, Mexico) :

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JOINT REPLY OF 

UNITED AIRLINES, INC. AND

SKYWEST AIRLINES, INC. 

United1and SkyWest (d/b/a United Express) (the “Joint Applicants”) reply to 

Southwest’s August 14, 2014 answer (the “Answer”) to the Joint Applicants’ July 30, 2014 joint 

application for an exemption and designations to provide seasonal scheduled service between

Houston and Mexico City, Mexico beginning on or about January 6, 2015 (the “Joint 

Application”). By its own admission, “Southwest does not oppose the grant of the Joint 

Application at this time and is not currently seeking authority to serve the Houston-MEX 

market.” Answer at 2. And SkyWest’s United Express service would simply replace the 

existing ExpressJet United Express service on this route. Accordingly, the Answer is yet another 

transparent attempt to delay the Department in granting authority involving Houston service to 

the Joint Applicants.

2

 The Department should view the Answer as such and promptly grant the 

Joint Application.

 

1 Common names are used for airlines. 

2

See, e.g., Answers of Southwest dated May 5, 2014 in Dockets DOT-OST-2014-

0058 and DOT-OST-2014-0059 and dated June 24, 2014 in Dockets DOT-OST-2014-0100 and 

DOT-OST-2014-0101.