BEFORE THE

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

WASHINGTON, D.C.

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Joint Application of :

:

UNITED AIRLINES, INC. and : Docket DOT-OST-2014-0158

SKYWEST AIRLINES, INC. : and

: Docket DOT-OST-2014-0159

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

designations (Houston-Monterrey, 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

October 3, 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-2014-0158

SKYWEST AIRLINES, INC. : and

: Docket DOT-OST-2014-0159

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

designations (Houston-Monterrey, 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 September 25, 2014 answer (the “Answer”) to the Joint Applicants’ September 10,

2014 joint application for an exemption and designations to provide scheduled service between

Houston and Monterrey, Mexico beginning on or about March 5, 2015 (the “Joint Application”).

By its own admission, “Southwest does not oppose the grant of the Joint Application at this time,

as Southwest is not currently seeking authority to serve the Houston-MTY market.” Answer at

2. And SkyWest’s United Express service would simply be substituted for the mainline service

that United currently provides 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.2The 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, June 24, 2014 in Dockets DOT-OST-2014-0100 and DOTOST-2014-0101 and August 14, 2014 in Dockets DOT-OST-2014-0129 and DOT-OST-2014-

0130.
Joint Reply of United and SkyWest

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Respectfully submitted,

CROWELL & MORING LLP

____________________________

Gerald F. Murphy

Steven J. Seiden

gmurphy@crowell.com

sseiden@crowell.com

Counsel for

United Airlines, Inc.

and SkyWest Airlines, Inc.

October 3, 2014
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I certify that I have this date served the foregoing document on the following persons in

accordance with the Department’s Rules of Practice.

bob.kneisley@wnco.com

leslie.abbott@wnco.com

msinick@ssd.com

howard.kass@aa.com

robert.wirick@aa.com

robert.cohn@hoganlovells.com

patrick.rizzi@hoganlovells.com

pmurphy@ggh-airlaw.com

jhill@cooley.com

perkmann@cooley.com

sascha.vanderbellen@delta.com

sametta.c.barnett@delta.com

chris.walker@delta.com

dkirstein@yklaw.com

jyoung@yklaw.com

thomas.ting@suncountry.com

john.fredericksen@suncountry.com

matwood@cozen.com

barbara.russell@virginamerica.com

john.varley@virginamerica.com

anita.mosner@hklaw.com

jennifer.nowak@hklaw.com

dwight.moore@transcom.mil

john.s.duncan@faa.gov

urskr@state.gov

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Gerald F. Murphy

October 3, 2014