[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 172 (Tuesday, September 5, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53796-53797]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-22641]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Office of the Secretary


Certificates of Public Convenience; Applications

    Notice of Applications for Certificates Convenience and 
Necessity and Foreign Air Carrier Permits Filed Under Subpart Q 
during the Week Ending August 18, 2000. The following Applications 
for Certificates of Public Convenience and Necessity and Foreign Air 
Carrier Permits were filed under Subpart Q of the Department of 
Transportation's Procedural Regulations (See 14 CFR 302.1701 et 
seq.). The due date for Answers, Conforming Applications, or Motions 
to Modify Scope are set forth below for each application. Following 
the Answer period DOT may process the application by expedited 
procedures. Such procedures may consist of the adoption of a show-
cause order, a tentative order, or in appropriate cases a final 
order without further proceedings.

    Docket Number: OST-200-7803.
    Date Filed: August 15, 2000.
    Due Date for Answers, Conforming Applications, or Motion to Modify 
Scope: September 5, 2000.
    Description: Application of Florida Coastal Airlines, Inc. 
(``Florida Coastal'') pursuant to 49 U.S.C. Section 41738 and Subpart A 
of the Procedural Regulations and Section 204.3, applies for issuance 
of commuter air carrier authority to enable Florida Coastal to engage 
in interstate and foreign scheduled air transportation operations under 
Part 298 of the Department's Economic Regulations.

    Docket Number: OST-2000-7815.
    Date Filed: August 16, 2000.
    Due Date for Answers, Conforming Applications, or Motion to Modify 
Scope: September 6, 2000.
    Description: Application of Heartland Airlines, LLC pursuant to 49 
U.S.C. Section 41102, and Subpart Q, requests a certificate of public 
convenience and necessity, authorizing it to engage in interstate 
scheduled air transportation of persons, property and mail between any 
point or points in the United States, its territories and possessions, 
or the District of Columbia, on the one hand, and any other point or 
points in the United States, its territories and possessions.

Dorothy Y. Beard,
Federal Register Liaison.

Application of Florida Coastal Airlines, Inc. for Authority To 
Conduct Scheduled Commuter Air Carrier Operations Pursuant to 49 
U.S.C. Sec. 41738; Application of Florida Coastal Airlines, Inc.

[Docket OST-00-7803-1]

    August 15, 2000.
    Communications with respect to this document should be sent to: 
Dean A. Forest, President and Chief Executive Officer, Florida Coastal 
Airlines, Inc., 3000 Curtis King Boulevard, Ft. Pierce, FL 34946, (561) 
468-2255 (tel.), (561) 268-2209 (fax).
    Notice: Under the Procedural Regulations of the Department, any 
interested person may file an Answer to this Application with the DOT's 
Docket Section and must serve all persons named on the attached Service 
List. Answers to this Application are due to be filed on or before 
August 24, 2000.

Application of Florida Coastal Airlines, Inc. for Authority To 
Conduct Scheduled Commuter Air Carrier Operations Pursuant to 49 
U.S.C. Sec. 41738; Application of Florida Coastal Airlines, Inc.

[Docket OST-00-__]

    August 15, 2000.
    Florida Coastal Airlines, Inc. (``Florida Coastal'') hereby 
applies, pursuant to 49 U.S.C. Sec. 41738 of the Federal Aviation 
Statutes, Subpart A of the Procedural Regulations and Section 204.3 of 
the Economic Regulations of the Department of Transportation (the 
``Department''), for issuance of commuter air carrier authority to 
enable Florida Coastal to engage in interstate and foreign scheduled 
air transportation operations under Part 298 of the Department's 
Economic Regulations. Florida Coastal is currently engaged in on-demand 
passenger charter operations utilizing small aircraft pursuant to Part 
298 and Part 135 of the Federal Aviation Regulations, and desires to 
commence scheduled operations on November 20, 2000.
    In support of this Application, Florida Coastal states as follows:

Application of HeartLand Airlines, LLC for a certification of 
public convenience and necessity pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 41102 to 
engage in scheduled interstate air transportation; Application of 
HeartLand Airlines, LLC

[Docket OST-2000-7815-1]

    August 16, 2000.

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    Communications with respect to this document should be sent to:

William R. Howard, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, HEARTLAND 
AIRLINES, LLC, 3270 Terminal Drive, Vandalia, Ohio 45377, (937) 264-
9800
Robert P. Silverberg, Esq., Michael W. Ambrose, Jr., Esq., Silverberg, 
Goldman & Bikoff, LLP, 1101 30th Street, NW., Suite 120, Washington, DC 
20007, (202) 944-3300, [email protected]
Attorneys for HEARTLAND AIRLINES, LLC

    Any person may support or oppose this Application by filing an 
answer and serving a copy of the answer on all persons served with this 
Application on or before September 6, 2000.

OFB holding interests in the airline may change. HeartLand will update 
this citizenship information as warranted.
    3. Authority Requested By HeartLand. HeartLand hereby requests 
authority to engage in interstate scheduled air transportation of 
persons, property and mail between any point or points in the United 
States, its territories and possessions, or the District of Columbia, 
on the one hand, and any other point or points in the United States, 
its territories and possessions.
    4. Service Proposal. By the end of the first 12 months of 
operations HeartLand and its code share partner (or partners) will be 
conducting weekday operations in a total of fourteen nonstop Dayton 
city-pair markets using a total of six 717 aircraft and six J-31 or 
similar turboprop aircraft. HeartLand is submitting a route map 
identifying the weekday markets it proposes to serve or could 
potentially serve as Exhibit 18. Because of the commercial sensitivity 
of this marketing information, and because HeartLand will not commence 
service until June 2001, the applicant is requesting in a separate 
motion to withhold Exhibit 18 from public disclosure pursuant to Rule 
12 of the DOT's Rules of Practice, 14 CFR Sec. 302.12.

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