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 Hawaiian requests that United’s application be dismissed for failure 

to comply the Rules of Practice. Alternatively, Hawaiian requests that the Department initiate a 

proceeding to allocate the returned slot pair. 

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

Haneda fails to comply with the Rules of Practice, 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 and 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 application requesting that the Department 

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

between Tokyo International Airport, Tokyo, Japan (“Haneda”) and Kona, Hawaii. With the 
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Answer of Hawaiian Airlines, Inc. to United 

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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 allocation proceeding, just as it did with 

the initial Haneda proceeding in Docket 2010-0018 and when Delta Air Lines sought permission 

to move its Detroit-Haneda slots to the Seattle-Haneda route.2 Any decision regarding the 

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

unfairly prejudices all procedurally sufficient applications. 

                                                            

1 Ashbacker Radio Corp. v. F.C.C., 326 U.S. 327 (1945) (holding, generally, that agency must 

offer full consideration to all competing applications 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 fair 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 [agency] 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 include 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).
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Answer of Hawaiian Airlines, Inc. to United 

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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