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### Thank you for your email ofApril 8to Secretary Foxx regarding the status ofthe application filed byEastern Air Lines, Inc. (Eastern), for interstate and foreign charter certificate authority. The Secretary has asked that Irespond to you directly. I caninform you that the Departmentissued an ordertoday tentatively finding Eastern fit, willing, and able to engage in interstate and foreign charter air transportation. In

### this order, the Department also granted Eastern'srequest to shortenthe answerperiod, from May 4 to April 27, for the filing ofobjections to our tentative findings. 

### In the eventthat no objections are filed, the Department will consider all further procedural steps to be waived and will execute an order finding Eastern fit to engage in its proposed operations. For further updates onEastern's certificateproceeding, please feel free to access the docket at http://www.regulations.gov, entering Eastern's docket numbers in the search engine. As is ournormal practice, I am placing a copy ofyour email and this response inDockets DOT-OST-2014-0012 and DOT-OST-2014-0013 as a contact outside the record ofthismatter. Sincerely,

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From: Ed Wegel [mailto:ed.wegel@easternairlines.aero] Sent: Wednesday, April OB, 2015 11:57 AM To: Anthony Foxx (OST) Subject: Fwd: Eastern Air Lines show cause order status Dear Secretary Foxx,

I I an the founder and CEO ofEastern Air Lines, anew entrant air carrierbased in Miami. We are now in the final stages ofour FAA certification and hope to have all ofthat completedlin thenext few weeks. We will be operating 737-800s and have twenty new aircraft on order fron\ Boeing. We will be bringing thousands ofnewjobsto south Florida. 

## j 1am having great difficulty with the US DOT on our Economic Authority- we have no citizenship issues, we have no financial issues- our Chairman is the Retired Vice Chair ofthe Joint Chiefs (Admiral William Owens) and our major shareholder is a West Point graduate, AirborAe Ranger billionaire from New York who personally funded the CombatingTerrorism Center at.West Point. The former Mayor ofMiami, Manny Diaz, who you may know, is also on our board ofdirectors.
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# . The Airline CertificationTeam will not respond to my requests and our attorney's requests for the 

### ' status ofour application. I have been starting and certifying airlines for 30years and 1;have never had such difficulty. You are very busy and I apologize for this request for assistance, but 1rieed information from DOT so we can plan our business activities and time is critical as I JJso need to apply for Foreign CharterAuthority. 

### ! Many thanks in advance for your kind consideration ofmy request. Respectfully, Ed Wegel EDWARDJ. WEGEL \\ President & CEO \\ Tel: 305.869.4249 \\ easternajrlines.aero Eastern Air Lines Group, Inc. 4200 NW36th Street, Bldg. SA, Miami, FL 33166

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ed Wegel <ed.wegel@easternairlines.aero> Date: Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 9:30AM Subject: Eastern Air Lines show cause order status To: Lauralyn Remo <laura.remo@dot.gov>, Catherine O'Toole <catberioe.o'toole@dot.gov>, "Brandon M. Belford" <belfordb@gmail.con\> Cc: "patrjck:m.mclaugblin@faa.gov" <patrjck.m,mclaughlin@faa.gov>, "Brian.D.Kams@faa.goy" <Brjao.D.Karns@faa.goy>Mr Belford, Ms. Remo and Ms. O'Toole, 

### Jhereby formally request an updated status on our application for Economic Authority,with a timeline for its being placed on your website for the objection and answer period to begin. We have had all ofthe information in for months- we have repeatedly answ'ered several of the same questions, and now all we can receive is an "under review" comment. l request that our application be · taken seriously and thatI be dealt with in a professional manner. I look forward to your response this morning. 

### Ed Wegel



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