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### u.S,Departmentof transportation Office of 'the Secretory ofTransportation



### Ms.• Anne Daniells President/Owner Torrey Pines Transportation 10637 Roselle Street, Suite B San Diego, CA 92.121
Dear Ms. Daniells: · April 

## u. 2012 

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### O'l 1:100 New Jetsey Ave •S E Washmglon. DC 20590



### Thank you for your letterto Secretary ofTransportation 

### Ray LaHood, supporting the application ofAlaska Airlines, Inc.• for two beyond-perimeter slot exemptions at Ronald Reagan W8$hingtonNational Airport (DCA) to .serve San Diego International Airport with one round trip 

### per day from DCA. Se.cre.tary LaHood asked .that 

### I respond to your letter. Under authority granted in_ the FAAModernization and Reform Act of2012, the U.S. Department ofTransportation will be awarding to new entrant or limited incumbent carriers atotal 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 Portland. Oregont on March 12. Other timely applications were received from Air Canada, proposing one round trip to Vancouver, British Columbra; Frontier Airlines, one round trip to Colorado Springs and 'beyond to 

### San Diego; J.etBlue**Airlin~s,** 

### one round trip to San Juan, Puerto Rico, and one·round tripto Austin,**T~xa$;** 

### Southwest Airlines, one round trip to Austin and San 

### Diego beyond; Sun Country Airlines, one round trip to Las**Vegas~** 

### andVirgin**America~** 

### Inc•• two round trips to San Francisco. 

### As the matter is sti11 pending, Icannot comment on the merits ofthe points raised in your letter. However, Ican 8$sureyou tbatell applications the Department received will be given full and fair consideration and will 

### be evaluated againstthe selection criteria specified in the statute.Page 2, Daniells 

### The Department's action on this matteds 

### being administered 

### through a public docket, Which 

### allows all interested parties the opportunity to comment. F'ollowing our non:nal practice, Iam 

### placing a 

### copy of

### your letter and this 

### response in docket number DOT
..2012
..0029. I appreciate 

### your interest in this matter. Sincerely yours,

Susan 

### L. Kurland Assistant Secretary for Aviation and 

### International Affairs

# TORREY PINES TRANSPC)RTATlON 15 March 2012 The H<>norable Ray LaHood U.S. Department.of Transportation 1200 New Jersey Ave, SE. Washington, DC 20590 Re: Alaska Airlines' application for SAN-DCA, Docket No. DOT-OST-2012-0029. Dear Secretary LaHood: Torrey'PinesTransportation, Inc. fully supports the application ofAlaska Airlines for airservice between San**Die~o** and Washington Reagan National Airport (DCA). San Diego is the largest region without announced senticeto DCA even though we have some ofthe largest government contractors in the Southern California area. This is proven by the factthe this regiOn has the LARGEST US PASSENGER MARKET to DCA without the benefit of non-stop service. We are alarge city whose travelers pay more thanany otherwest coast city to getto DCA

.. With oAiy afew SAN;; DCA slots available, shouldn'tthis be considered? We are aregional transportation company who tries to service 

### its clients in DC as much as possible. Non-stop air service to DCA would be helpful to the same clientsas Alaska, but also would benefit Washington, DC's business base. Other San Diego-based andWashington-based businesses thatare engaged in health science, telecommunications, and national defense that need quick and convenient access to Reagan National Airport. Torrey Pines Transportation joins with the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority, the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation, the World Trade Center San Diego, and the San Diego Regional Chamberof Commerce in support ofAlaska Airlines' application for San Diego
- Washington Reagan National slots. Thank you for eopportunity to comment on the above referenced docket.

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# ~iells President/Owner

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