U.S. Department of 

Transportation 

Office of the Secretary 

Of Transportation 

Mr. Edward J. Wegel 

President, Eastern Air Lines, Inc. 

4200 NW 36th Street 

Building SA 

Miami, FL 33166 

Dear Mr. Wegel: 

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Thank you for your email of April 8 to Secretary Foxx regarding the status of the application 

filed by Eastern Air Lines, Inc. (Eastern), for interstate and foreign charter certificate authority. 

The Secretary has asked that I respond to you directly. 

I can inform you that the Department issued an order today tentatively finding Eastern fit, 

willing, and able to engage in interstate and foreign charter air transportation. In this order, the 

Department also granted Eastern's request to shorten the answer period, from May 4 to April 27, 

for the filing of objections to our tentative findings. In the event that 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 on Eastern's 

certificate proceeding, please feel free to access the docket at http://www.regulations.gov, 

entering Eastern's docket numbers in the search engine. 

As is our normal practice, I am placing a copy of your email and this response in Dockets 

DOT-OST-2014-0012 and DOT-OST-2014-0013 as a contact outside the record ofthis matter. 

Sincerely, 

~~·~ Robert S. Goldner 

Special Counsel for 

Office of Aviation and International Affairs 
From: 

To: 

Schofield. A5hlejgh rosn 

Gertel. Angelica lOSTl 

Subject: FW: Eastern Air Unes show cause order status 

Wednesday, April 08, 2015 1:03:18 PM 

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Date: 

Attachments: 

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 of Eastern Air Lines, a new entrant air carrier based in Miami. We are 

now in the final stages of our FAA certification and hope to have all of that completed lin the next 

few weeks. We will be operating 737-800s and have twenty new aircraft on order fron\ Boeing. We 

will be bringing thousands of new jobs to south Florida. j 

1 am 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 of the Joint Chiefs 

(Admiral William Owens) and our major shareholder is a West Point graduate, AirborAe Ranger 

billionaire from New York who personally funded the Combating Terrorism Center at .West Point. 

The former Mayor of Miami, Manny Diaz, who you may know, is also on our board of directors. ' ( 

. The Airline Certification Team will not respond to my requests and our attorney's requests for the 

' status of our application. I have been starting and certifying airlines for 30 years and 1; have never 

had such difficulty. You are very busy and I apologize for this request for assistance, but 1 rieed 

information from DOT so we can plan our business activities and time is critical as I JJso need to 

apply for Foreign Charter Authority. ! 

Many thanks in advance for your kind consideration of my request. 

Respectfully, 

Ed Wegel 

EDWARD J. WEGEL \\ President & CEO \\ Tel: 305.869.4249 \\ easternajrlines.aero 

Eastern Air Lines Group, Inc. 4200 NW 36th 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 .mclaugb lin@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, 

J hereby 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 of the 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 that I be dealt with in a professional manner. 

I look forward to your response this morning. 

Ed Wegel 

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