Final objections filed on DCA slot allocation

Frontier Airlines, Spirit Airlines, and JetBlue lodged objections with the US Department of Transportation over the assignment of new long-distance slots at DCA. The three carriers were the losers in the recent allocation proceedings.

Frontier continues to press its position that it is qualified as a “limited incumbent carrier” and that Alaska Airlines should not be seen as such. For the former argument the carrier notes that the DOT described it as a limited incumbent carrier at…