- 1 - Alexander Van der Bellen Managing Director and Associate General Counsel

Delta Air Lines, Inc. 1212 New York Avenue NW Washington, DC 20005 202.842.4184 sascha.vanderbellen@delta.com

October 18, 2010

Commissioner Joaquín Almunia Vice-President of the European Commission, Responsible for Competition Policy European Commission B-1049 Brussels

The Honorable Ray LaHood, Secretary United States Department of Transportation 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE Washington, DC 20590

Re: Application of Delta Air Lines for London Heathrow Slots

Dear Mr. Vice-President and Mr. Secretary:

Attached please find a letter from the Governor of Massachusetts supporting Delta’s application for Heathrow slots for Boston-Heathrow services.

Respectfully submitted,

Alexander Van der Bellen

cc: Service List DOT-OST-2008-0252DEVAL L. PATRICK

GOVERNOR TIMOTHY P. MURRAY

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR

October 14,201 0

Commissioner Joaquin Almunia Vice-President of the European Commission, Responsible for Competition Policy El- ropea an Commission B-1049 Brussels

'The Honorable Ray LaHood, Secretary United States Department of Transportation 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE Washington, DC 20590

Re: Application of Delta Air Lines for Boston-London Heathrow Slots

Dear Mr. Vice-President and Mr. Secretary:

On behalf of the Massachusetts Port Authority and Boston Logan International Airport, I am writing to support Delta Air Lines' application to begin operating two daily, year-round Boston-London Heath row roundtrips, starting in the spring of 201 1.

London is Boston's largest and most important international market, with approximately 490,000 origin-destination passengers annually. Together, Anierican Airlines and British Airways operate six of the seven daily roundtrips on the Boston-London Heathrow route, with Virgin Atlantic operating a single daily roundtrip. As a condition of antitrust immunity for the alliance between American Airlines and British Airways, the European Commission and U.S. Department of Transportation have each required that two of these London Heathrow slots be divested to facilitate new nonstop entry and competition on this route.Commissioner Joaquin Almunia The Honorable Ray LaHood October 14, 201 0 Page Two

We believe that Delta Air Lines, by operating two daily, year-round Boston-London Heathrow roundtrips, would provide the greatest con-~petitive balance to an antitrust-immurrized American AirlinesIBritish Airways alliance on the Boston-London Heathrow route. With over 75 daily departures to 17 destinations, Delta Air Lines is the largest network carrier, and second largest carrier overall, at Boston Logan International Airport. Delta provides daily international flights from Boston to Amsterdam, and we believe that it has the skill and professional ability to expand its international service witliout missing a step. With two daily, year-rou~id Boston-London Heathrow roundtrips, rather than just one, Delta will be better able to serve this large business market, which values schedule frequency and choice.

For these reasons, we offer our support of Delta Air Lines' application for two roundtrip Boston-London Heathrow slots, to provide the necessary competition in our largest international market.CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

A copy of the foregoing document has been served this 18 th day of October, 2010, upon the following persons via email:

BAAAIB.trustee@competitionrx.com matthew.gaved@competitionrx.com stephen.wainright@sdgworld.net linsey.mc-callum@ec.europa.eu todd.homan@dot.gov peter.irvine@dot.gov grady.stone@dot.gov esta.rosenberg@dot.gov byerlyjr@state.gov rob.hawks@faa.gov 7-AWA-Slotadmin@faa.gov john.allen@faa.gov anita.mosner@hklaw.com carl.nelson@aa.com jeff.ogar@aa.com paul.jasinski@ba.com libowd@sullcrom.com dhainbach@ggh-airlaw.com wkaras@steptoe.com sami.sarelius@finnair.fi mholland@condonlaw.com dan.weiss@coair.com hkamen@coair.com steve.morrissey@united.com jeffrey.manley@united.com howard.kass@usairways.com benjamin.slocum@usairways.com info@airlineinfo.com