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Federal Aviation Administration, DOT 

§ 93.217 

carrier and commuter operator for pur-
poses of this subpart. 

[Doc. No. 24105, 50 FR 52195, Dec. 20, 1985, as 
amended by Amdt. 93–52, 51 FR 21717, June 
13, 1986; Amdt. 93–57, 54 FR 34906, Aug. 22, 
1989; 54 FR 37303, Sept. 8, 1989; Amdt. 93–65, 57 
FR 37314, Aug. 18, 1992] 

§ 93.215

Initial allocation of slots. 

(a) Each air carrier and commuter 

operator holding a permanent slot on 
December 16, 1985, as evidenced by the 
records of the air carrier and com-
muter operator scheduling committees, 
shall be allocated those slots subject to 
withdrawal under the provisions of this 
subpart. The Chief Counsel of the FAA 
shall be the final decisionmaker for 
initial allocation determinations. 

(b) Any permanent slot whose use on 

December 16, 1985 is divided among dif-
ferent operators, by day of the week, or 
otherwise, as evidenced by records of 
the scheduling committees, shall be al-
located in conformity with those 
records. The Chief Counsel of the FAA 
shall be the final decisionmaker for 
these determinations. 

(c) A carrier may permanently des-

ignate a slot it holds at Kennedy Inter-
national Airport as a seasonal slot, to 
be held by the carrier only during the 
corresponding season in future years, if 
it notifies the FAA (at the address 
specified in § 93.225(e)), in writing, the 
preceding winter seasons or by October 
15 of the preceding year for summer 
seasons. 

(d) Within 30 days after December 16, 

1985, each U.S. air carrier and com-
muter operator must notify the office 
specified in § 93.221(a)(1), in writing, of 
those slots used for operations de-
scribed in § 93.217(a)(1) on December 16, 
1985. 

(e) Any slot not held by an operator 

on December 16, 1985 shall be allocated 
in accordance with the provisions of 
§§ 93.217, 93.219 or 93.225 of this subpart. 

[Doc. No. 24105, 50 FR 52195, Dec. 20, 1985, as 
amended by Amdt. 93–52, 51 FR 21717, June 
13, 1986] 

§ 93.217

Allocation of slots for inter-

national operations and applicable 
limitations. 

(a) Any air carrier of commuter oper-

ator having the authority to conduct 
international operations shall be pro-

vided slots for those operations, ex-
cluding transborder service solely be-
tween HDR airports and Canada, sub-
ject to the following conditions and the 
other provisions of this section: 

(1) The slot may be used only for a 

flight segment in which either the 
takeoff or landing is at a foreign point 
or, for foreign operators, the flight seg-
ment is a continuation of a flight that 
begins or ends at a foreign point. Slots 
may be obtained and used under this 
section only for operations at Kennedy 
and O’Hare airports unless otherwise 
required by bilateral agreement and 
only for scheduled service unless the 
requesting carrier qualifies for the slot 
on the basis of historic seasonal oper-
ations, under § 93.217(a)(5). 

(2) Slots used for an operation de-

scribed in paragraph (a)(1) of this sec-
tion may not be bought, sold, leased, or 
otherwise transferred, except that such 
a slot may be traded to another slot- 
holder on a one-for-one basis for a slot 
at the same airport in a different hour 
or half-hour period if the trade is for 
the purpose of conducting such an op-
eration in a different hour or half-hour 
period. 

(3) Slots used for operations de-

scribed in paragraph (a)(1) of this sec-
tion must be returned to the FAA if 
the slot will not be used for such oper-
ations for more than a 2-week period. 

(4) Each air carrier or commuter op-

erator having a slot that is used for op-
erations described in paragraph (a)(1) 
of this section but is not used every 
day of the week shall notify the office 
specified in § 93.221(a)(1) in writing of 
those days on which the slots will not 
be used. 

(5) Except as provided in paragraph 

(a)(10) of this section, at Kennedy and 
O’Hare Airports, a slot shall be allo-
cated, upon request, for seasonal inter-
national operations, including charter 
operations, if the Chief Counsel of the 
FAA determines that the slot had been 
permanently allocated to and used by 
the requesting carrier in the same hour 
and for the same time period during 
the corresponding season of the pre-
ceding year. Requests for such slots 
must be submitted to the office speci-
fied in § 93.221(a)(1), by the deadline 
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