BEFORE THE

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

WASHINGTON, D.C.

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: Application of :

: SKYWEST AIRLINES, INC. : Docket DOT

- OST

- 2014

-

____ : for an exemption under 49 U.S.C. § 40109 : ( Washington, D.C.

- Nassau
, Bahamas ) :

:

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APPLICATION OF SKYWEST AIRLINES, INC. FOR AN EXEMPTION

Communications with respect to this document should be sent to:

Todd Emerson Director

- Government and Legal Affairs SKYWEST AIRLINES, INC. 444 South River Road St. George, Utah 84790 (435) 634

- 3530 temerson@skywest.com Gerald F. Murphy Steven J. Seiden CROWELL & MORING LLP 1001 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 2000 4

- 2595 (202) 508

- 8855 gmurphy@crowell.com sseiden@crowell.com

Counsel for S kyW est Airlines, Inc

.

February 4 , 201 4

Notice: SkyWest is requesting expedited treatment of this application. SkyWest will

po ll air carrier representatives o n the attached Service List and will advise the Department of the results.BEFORE THE

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

WASHINGTON, D.C.

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: Application of :

: SKYWEST AIRLINES, INC. : Docket DOT

- OST

- 2014

-

____ : for an exemption under 49 U.S.C. § 40109 : ( Washington, D.C.

- Nassau
, Bahamas ) :

:

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APPLICATION OF SKYWEST AIRLINES, INC. FOR AN EXEMPTION

SkyWest 1 applies, pursuant to 49 U.S.C. § 40109 and Rule 302 of the Department’s

Rules of Practice, for an exemption from 49 U.S.C. § 41101 authorizing SkyWest to engage in

scheduled foreign air transportation of persons, property and mail between Washington, D.C.

(Dulles International Airport) and Nassau
, Bahamas on a seasonal basis commencing in June

201 4

. SkyWest ask s that this authority become effective as soon as possible

, 2 and that the

authority be effective for a two

- year period or until SkyWest’s request for certificate authority to

provide combination service between the United States and various open

- entry Caribbean

destinations is granted , whichever occurs later. 3

1 Common names are used for airlines.

2 SkyWest will conduct a poll of all carrier representatives listed on the service list to this application and immediately notify the Department of the results.

3 In its December 18, 2007 application for blanket open

- skies certificate authority in Docket DOT

- OST

- 2007

- 0084

, SkyWest made a separate request for certificate authority to provide scheduled combination service to vario us open

- entry Caribbean countries, including the Bahamas. In its order issuing SkyWest’s open skies certificate, the D epartment noted that it would defer and handle separately the carriers’ request s for U.S.

- Caribbean certificate authority

. See Order 2008

- 4

- 26 at n. 3. The Department has yet to act on th at request

.Application of SkyWest

Page 2

SkyWest state s as follows in support of its application:

1. SkyWest is a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of

Utah with i t s principal place of business located at 444 South River R oad, St. George, Utah

84790.

2. SkyWest is a citizen of the United States within the meaning of 49 U.S.C.

§ 40101(a)(15) and is fit, willing and able to perform the seasonal Washington, D.C.

- Nassau

services described herein. SkyWest is a well

- established regional carrier and holds various

certificate and exemption authorities permitting it to engage in scheduled interstate and foreign

air transportation of persons, property and mail. 4 SkyWest requests that the Department,

pursuan t to Rule 24 of its Rules of Practice, take official notice of all information and data that

have been previously filed to establish SkyWest 's fitness.

3. SkyWest plans to operate scheduled Washington, D.C.

- Nassau se rvice on a

seasonal basis as a United Express carrier with CRJ

- 700 aircraft from its existing fleet and will

commence service in June 2014 , provided that all necessary approvals have been secured.

SkyWest will operate these services as a United Express carrier pursuant to a capacity purchase

agreement with United

. 5 United already holds certificate authority for this route

. 6

4. The authority sought by SkyWest is fully consistent with the terms of the 1946

Air Transport Agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom to which the

Government of the Bahamas acceded upon its independence, as amended, and with the overall

4 See, e.g. , Order 2011

- 12

- 11 at 4, n. 17 ( continuing fitness review); Order 2008

- 4

- 26 (blanket open

- skies); Notice s of Action Taken dated Nov

. 21, 2013 in Docket DOT

- OST

2013

- 0198 (Houston

- Nassau, Bahamas), Jan

. 28, 2013 in Docket DOT

- OST

- 2013

- 0017 (Houston

- Queretaro, Tampico, and Villahermosa, Mexico), and Aug

. 2, 2012 in Docket DOT

OST

- 2012

- 0128 (Chicago

- Nassau, Bahamas)

.

5 United’s desig nator code will be displayed on flights operated by SkyWest pursuant to the requested authority.

6 See Order s 92

- 7

- 9 (Route 632) and 83

- 3

- 77 (Route 57 )

.