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14 CFR Ch. I (1–1–24 Edition) 

§ 93.219 

(b) Canadian carriers shall have a 

guaranteed base level of slots of 42 
slots at LaGuardia, 36 slots at O’Hare 
for the Sumner season, and 32 slots at 
O’Hare in the Winter season. 

(c) Any modification to the slot base 

by the Government of Canada or the 
Canadian carriers that results in a de-
crease of the guaranteed base in para-
graph (b) of this section shall perma-
nently modify the base number of 
slots. 

[Doc. No. FAA–1999–4971, 64 FR 53565, Oct. 1, 
1999] 

§ 93.219

Allocation of slots for essential 

air service operations and applica-
ble limitations. 

Whenever the Office of the Secretary 

of Transportation determines that 
slots are needed for operations to or 
from a High Density Traffic Airport 
under the Department of Transpor-
tation’s Essential Air Service (EAS) 
Program, those slots shall be provided 
to the designated air carrier or com-
muter operator subject to the following 
limitations: 

(a) Slots obtained under this section 

may not be bought, sold, leased or oth-
erwise transferred, except that such 
slots may be traded for other slots on a 
one-for-one basis at the same airport. 

(b) Any slot obtained under this sec-

tion must be returned to the FAA if it 
will not be used for EAS purposes for 
more than a 2-week period. A slot re-
turned under this paragraph may be re-
allocated to the operator which re-
turned it upon request to the FAA of-
fice specified in § 93.221(a)(1) if that slot 
has not been reallocated to an operator 
to provide substitute essential air serv-
ice. 

(c) Slots shall be allocated for EAS 

purposes in a time period within 90 
minutes of the time period requested. 

(d) The Department will not honor 

requests for slots for EAS purposes to a 
point if the requesting carrier has pre-
viously traded away or sold slots it had 
used or obtained for use in providing 
essential air service to that point. 

(e) Slots obtained under Civil Aero-

nautics Board Order No. 84–11–40 shall 
be considered to have been obtained 
under this section. 

§ 93.221

Transfer of slots. 

(a) Except as otherwise provided in 

this subpart, effective April 1, 1986, 
slots may be bought, sold or leased for 
any consideration and any time period 
and they may be traded in any com-
bination for slots at the same airport 
or any other high density traffic air-
port. Transfers, including leases, shall 
comply with the following conditions: 

(1) Requests for confirmation must be 

submitted in writing to Slot Adminis-
tration Office, AGC–230, Office of the 
Chief Counsel, Federal Aviation Ad-
ministration, 800 Independence Ave., 
SW., Washington, DC 20591, in a format 
to be prescribed by the Administrator. 
Requests will provide the names of the 
transferor and recipient; business ad-
dress and telephone number of the per-
sons representing the transferor and 
recipient; whether the slot is to be used 
for an arrival or departure; the date 
the slot was acquired by the transferor; 
the section of this subpart under which 
the slot was allocated to the trans-
feror; whether the slot has been used 
by the transferor for international or 
essential air service operations; and 
whether the slot will be used by the re-
cipient for international or essential 
air service operations. After with-
drawal priorities have been established 
under § 93.223 of this part, the requests 
must include the slot designations of 
the transferred slots as described in 
§ 93.223(b)(5). 

(2) The slot transferred must come 

from the transferor’s then-current 
FAA-approved base. 

(3) Written evidence of each trans-

feror’s consent to the transfer must be 
provided to the FAA. 

(4) The recipient of a transferred slot 

may not use the slot until written con-
firmation has been received from the 
FAA. 

(5)(i) Until a slot obtained by a new 

entrant or limited incumbent carrier in 
a lottery held under § 93.225 after June 
1, 1991, has been used by the carrier 
that obtained it for a continuous 24- 
month period after the lottery in ac-
cordance with § 93.227(a), that slot may 
be transferred only by trade for one or 
more slots at the same airport or to 
other new entrant or limited incum-
bent carriers under § 93.221(a)(5)(iii). 
This transfer restriction shall apply to 

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