### BEFORE THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY WASHINGTON, D.C.

__________________________________________ ) Answer of ) ) HAWAIIAN AIRLINES, INC. ) Docket DOT-OST-2010-0018 ) in the matter of 2010 U.S.-Haneda ) Combination Services Allocation Proceeding ) __________________________________________)

ANSWER OF HAWAIIAN AIRLINES, INC. TO UNITED AIRLINES, INC.’S APPLICATION

Communications with respect to this document should be addressed to:

Mark B. Dunkerley President & Chief Executive Officer

Hoyt H. Zia Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary Hoyt.Zia@hawaiianair.com

Mark K. Arimoto Assistant General Counsel Mark.Arimoto@hawaiianair.com

Hawaiian Airlines, Inc. 3375 Koapaka Street, Ste G-350 Honolulu, HI 96819-1869 Jonathan B. Hill J. Parker Erkmann Benjamin M. Berlin Dow Lohnes PLLC 1200 New Hampshire Ave., NW Suite 800 Washington, DC 20036 (202) 776-2000 (202) 776-4725 (fax) jhill@dowlohnes.com perkmann@dowlohnes.com bberlin@dowlohnes.com

Counsel for Hawaiian Airlines, Inc.

October 24, 2013

### BEFORE THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY WASHINGTON, D.C.

__________________________________________ ) Answer of ) ) HAWAIIAN AIRLINES, INC. ) Docket DOT-OST-2010-018 ) in the matter of 2010 U.S.-Haneda ) Combination Services Allocation Proceeding ) __________________________________________)

ANSWER OF HAWAIIAN AIRLINES, INC. TO UNITED AIRLINES, INC.’S APPLICATION

Hawaiian Airlines, Inc. (“Hawaiian”) submits this Answer in opposition to the

application of United Airlines, Inc. (“United” ) filed on October 17, 2013 in the above-captioned

docket. As explained below Hawa iian requests that United’s application be dismissed for failure

to comply the Rules of Practice. Alternativel y, Hawaiian requests that th e Department initiate a

proceeding to allocate the returned slot pair.

Hawaiian notes that United’s application fo r service from San Francisco, California to

Haneda fails to comply with the Rules of Pract ice, Part 302, and should be dismissed for that

failure. In particular, United’ s application fails to provide information required under 14 CFR

302.303(b)(3), including the type of equipment a nd its source, capacity, and schedule. United’s

application also fails to address the required use of fuel and its availability as required by of 14

CFR 302.4(a)(1).

On October 24, 2013, Hawaiian filed an appl ication requesting that the Department

award it American’s returned slot pair thereby allowing Hawaiian to operate combination service

between Tokyo International Air port, Tokyo, Japan (“Haneda”) and Kona, Hawaii. With the

### DOT-OST-2010-0018 Answer of Hawaiian Airlines, Inc. to United Page 2 of 3

filing of Hawaiian’s application the Department has before it at least two mutually exclusive

applications, unless of course the Department dismisses United’s application. Thus, under the

Ashbacker Doctrine, 1 

### the Department must institute an a llocation proceeding, just as it did with

the initial Haneda proceeding in Docket 2010-0 018 and when Delta Air Lines sought permission

to move its Detroit-Haneda slot s to the Seattle-Haneda route. 2 

### Any decision regarding the

Haneda slot pair made without a full proceed ing and its incumbent procedural safeguards

unfairly prejudices all procedura lly sufficient applications.

1 

### Ashbacker Radio Corp. v. F.C.C. , 326 U.S. 327 (1945) (holding, ge nerally, that agency must offer full consideration to all competing a pplications before making final decision); Pan Am. World Airways, Inc. v. Civil Aeronautics Bd. , 684 F.2d 31, 53 (D.C. Cir. 1982) (noting that Supreme Court, in Ashbacker , “established a general right to fa ir comparative consideration of competing applications before an agency”); Seaboard & W. Airlines v. Civil Aeronautics Bd.
, 181 F.2d 777, 779-80 (D.C. Cir. 1949) (“[I]f the [age ncy] has under consideration in a pending proceeding the fixing of routes, generally or of a specific nature, in an area and the selection of carriers to operate over those routes, it must in clude in the proceeding all pending applications for certificates over such proposed routes.”) 2 

### DOT OST Order 2012-8-20 (Aug. 17, 2012) (instituting proceeding to determine if it was in the public interest to grant Delta’s motion to move its Haneda slots to the Seattle-Haneda route).DOT-OST-2010-0018 Answer of Hawaiian Airlines, Inc. to United Page 3 of3

For the foregoing reasons, Hawaiian respectfully requests that the Department dismiss the

pending United application and award the available frequency to Hawaiian or, alternatively,

institute a proceeding and award Hawaiian the available slot pair to operate its proposed Kona

servtce.

. Parker Erkmann Benjamin M. Berlin Dow Lohnes PLLC 1200 New Hampshire Ave., NW Suite 800 Washington, DC 20036 (202) 776-2000 (202) 776-4725 (fax) jhill@dowlohnes.com perkmann@dowlohnes.com bberlin@dowlohnes.com

Counsel for Hawaiian Airlines, Inc.CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I hereby certify that a copy of the foregoing Answer of Hawaiian Airlines, Inc. to United Airlines, Inc.'s Application was served this 24th day of October, 2013 via email transmission or U.S. mail on the following:

megan.lawrence@alaskaair.com kyle.levine@alaskaair.corn francis.heil@aa.corn will_ris@arnrcorp.corn sascha. vanderbellen@del ta. corn sarnetta.c.barnett@delta.corn cln·is.walker@delta.com dan.weiss@united.corn steve.rnorrissey@united.com lhalloway@crowell.com gmurphy@crowell.com howard.kass@usairways.corn benjarnin.slocurn@usairways.corn esta.rosenberg@dot.gov robert.finarnore@dot.gov brett.kruger@dot.gov paul.gretch@dot.gov john.s.duncan@faa.gov urskr@state.gov info@airlineinfo.corn

Ambassador Kenichiro Sasae Embassy of Japan 2520 Massachusetts Ave., NW Washington, DC 20008

Benjamin M. Berlin