Notice2022-10740
Notice of Submission Deadline for Schedule Information for Chicago O'Hare International Airport, John F. Kennedy International Airport, Los Angeles International Airport, Newark Liberty International Airport, and San Francisco International Airport for the Winter 2022/2023 Scheduling Season
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Published
May 18, 2022
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Transportation DepartmentFederal Aviation Administration
Abstract
Under this notice, the FAA announces the submission deadline of May 19, 2022, for Winter 2022/2023 flight schedules at Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD), John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR), and San Francisco International Airport (SFO).
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 96 (Wednesday, May 18, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30325-30327]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-10740]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
Notice of Submission Deadline for Schedule Information for
Chicago O'Hare International Airport, John F. Kennedy International
Airport, Los Angeles International Airport, Newark Liberty
International Airport, and San Francisco International Airport for the
Winter 2022/2023 Scheduling Season
AGENCY: Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration
(FAA).
ACTION: Notice of submission deadline.
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SUMMARY: Under this notice, the FAA announces the submission deadline
of May 19, 2022, for Winter 2022/2023 flight schedules at Chicago
O'Hare International Airport (ORD), John F. Kennedy International
Airport (JFK), Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), Newark Liberty
International Airport (EWR), and San Francisco International Airport
(SFO).
DATES: Schedules should be submitted by May 19, 2022.
ADDRESSES: Schedules may be submitted to the Slot Administration Office
by email to: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#c8ffe5899f89e5bba4a7bca9aca5a1a688aea9a9e6afa7be"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="fdcad0bcaabcd08e9192899c99909493bd9b9c9cd39a928b">[email protected]</span></a>.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Al Meilus, Manager, Slot
Administration, AJR-G, Federal Aviation Administration, 800
Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20591; telephone (202) 267-2822;
email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#0e4f6220436b67627b7d4e686f6f20696178"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="9bdaf7b5d6fef2f7eee8dbfdfafab5fcf4ed">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This document provides routine notice to
carriers serving capacity-constrained airports in the United States,
including Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD), John F. Kennedy
International Airport (JFK), Los Angeles International Airport (LAX),
Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR), and San Francisco
International Airport (SFO). In particular, this notice announces the
deadline for carriers to submit schedules for the Winter 2022/2023
scheduling season. The FAA deadline coincides with the schedule
submission deadline established in the International Air Transport
Association (IATA) Calendar of Coordination Activities.
General Information for All Airports
The FAA has designated EWR, LAX, ORD, and SFO as IATA Level 2
airports \1\ subject to a schedule review process premised upon
voluntary cooperation. The FAA has designated JFK as an IATA Level 3
airport consistent with the Worldwide Slot Guidelines (WSG), now
generally known as the Worldwide Airport Slot Guidelines (WASG).\2\ The
FAA currently limits scheduled operations at JFK by order that expires
on October 29, 2022.\3\ The Winter 2022/2023 scheduling season is from
October 30, 2022, through March 25, 2023, in recognition of the IATA
Northern Winter scheduling period. Notwithstanding that carriers may
presently face uncertainty about their international operations in
light of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), carriers should continue
preparations for schedule facilitation at Level 2 airports and an
extension of slot controls at JFK during the Winter 2022/2023
scheduling season and submit their schedule under the assumption that
no relief will be granted at Level 2 and Level 3 airports during the
Winter 2022/2023 scheduling season.\4\ The FAA and the Office of the
Secretary will continue to monitor industry developments closely and
will announce any possible COVID-19-related relief, if it is deemed
necessary, in a separate notice. Any potential relief for the Winter
2022/2023 scheduling season and any potential action to alter the
established rules and policies for slot management and schedule
facilitation in the United States are not within the scope of this
notice.
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\1\ These designations remain effective until the FAA announces
a change in the Federal Register.
\2\ The FAA generally applies the WSG edition 9 to the extent
there is no conflict with U.S. law or regulation.
\3\ Operating Limitations at John F. Kennedy International
Airport, 73 FR 3510 (Jan. 18, 2008), as most recently extended 85 FR
58258 (Sep. 18, 2020). The slot coordination parameters for JFK are
set forth in this Order.
\4\ For additional information on COVID-19 impacts at designated
IATA Level 2 and 3 airports in the United States and actions taken
by the FAA to preserve stability through the Winter 2021/2022
scheduling season, see FAA Notice of Limited, Conditional Extension
of COVID-19 Related Relief for International Operations only for the
Winter 2021/2022 Scheduling Season, 86 FR 58134 (Oct. 20, 2021).
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The FAA is concerned primarily about scheduled and other regularly
conducted commercial operations during designated hours, but carriers
may submit schedule plans for the entire day. The designated hours for
the Winter 2022/2023 scheduling season are: At EWR and JFK from 0600 to
2300 Eastern Time (1100 to 0400 UTC), at LAX and SFO from 0600 to 2300
Pacific Time (1400 to 0700 UTC), and at ORD from 0600 to 2100 Central
Time (1200 to 0300 UTC). These hours are unchanged from previous
scheduling seasons. The FAA understands there may be differences in
schedule times due to U.S. daylight saving time dates and will
accommodate these differences to the extent possible.
Carriers should submit schedule information in sufficient detail
including, at minimum, the marketing or operating carrier, flight
number, scheduled time of operation, frequency, aircraft equipment, and
effective dates. IATA standard schedule information format and data
elements for communications at Level 2 and Level 3 airports in the IATA
Standard Schedules Information Manual (SSIM) Chapter 6 may be used. The
WSG provides additional information on schedule submissions at Level 2
and Level 3 airports. Some carriers at JFK manage and track slots
through FAA-
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assigned Slot ID numbers corresponding to an arrival or departure slot
in a particular half-hour on a particular day of week and date. The FAA
has a similar voluntary process for tracking schedules at EWR with
Reference IDs, and certain carriers are managing their schedules
accordingly. These are primarily U.S. and Canadian carriers that have
the highest frequencies and considerable schedule changes throughout
the season and can benefit from a simplified exchange of information
not dependent on full flight details. Carriers are encouraged to submit
schedule requests at those airports using Slot or Reference IDs.
As stated in the WSG, schedule facilitation at a Level 2 airport is
based on the following: (1) Schedule adjustments are mutually agreed
upon between the carriers and the facilitator; (2) the intent is to
avoid exceeding the airport's coordination parameters; (3) the concepts
of historic precedence and series of slots do not apply at Level 2
airports; although WSG recommends giving priority to approved services
that plan to operate unchanged from the previous equivalent season at
Level 2 airports, and (4) the facilitator should adjust the smallest
number of flights by the least amount of time necessary to avoid
exceeding the airport's coordination parameters. Consistent with the
WSG, the success of Level 2 in the United States depends on the
voluntary cooperation of carriers.
The FAA considers several factors and priorities as it reviews
schedule and slot requests at Level 2 and Level 3 airports, which are
consistent with the WSG, including--historic slots or services from the
previous equivalent season over new demand for the same timings,
services that are unchanged over services that plan to change time or
other capacity relevant parameters, introduction of year-round
services, effective period of operation, regularly planned operations
over ad hoc operations, and other operational factors that may limit a
carrier's timing flexibility. In addition to applying these priorities
from the WSG, the U.S. Government has adopted a number of measures and
procedures to promote competition and new entry at U.S. slot-controlled
and schedule-facilitated airports.
Consistent with the limited, conditional extension of COVID-19
related relief for the Winter 2021/2022 scheduling season \5\, slots or
schedules operated as approved on a non-historic or an ad hoc basis in
Winter 2021/2022 will be given priority over new requests for the same
timings in Winter 2022/2023, subject to capacity availability and
consistent with established rules and policies in effect in the United
States. This priority applies to slot or schedule requests for Winter
2022/2023, which are comparable in timing, frequency, and duration to
the ad hoc approvals made by the FAA for Winter 2021/2022. This
priority does not affect the historic precedence or priority of slot
holders and carriers with schedule approvals, respectively, which met
the conditions of the waiver during Winter 2021/2022 and which seek to
resume operating in Winter 2022/2023. The FAA may consider this
priority in the event that slots with historic precedence become
available for permanent allocation by the FAA. Foreign air carriers
seeking priority under this provision will be required to represent
that their home jurisdiction will provide reciprocal priority to U.S.
carrier requests of this nature. Slot management in the United States
differs in some respect from procedures in other countries. In the
United States, the FAA is responsible for facilitation and coordination
of runway access for takeoffs and landings at Level 2 and Level 3
airports; however, the airport authority or its designee is responsible
for facilitation and coordination of terminal/gate/airport facility
access. The process with the individual airports for terminal access
and other airport services is separate from, and in addition to, the
FAA schedule review based on runway capacity.
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\5\ See FAA Notice of Limited, Conditional Extension of COVID-19
Related Relief for International Operations only for the Winter
2021/2022 Scheduling Season, 86 FR 58134 (Oct. 20, 2021).
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Generally, the FAA uses average hourly runway capacity throughput
for airports and performance metrics in conducting its schedule review
at Level 2 airports and determining the scheduling limits at Level 3
airports included in FAA rules or orders.\6\ The FAA also considers
other factors that can affect operations, such as capacity changes due
to runway, taxiway, or other airport construction, air traffic control
procedural changes, airport surface operations, and historical or
projected flight delays and congestion.
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\6\ The FAA typically determines an airport's average adjusted
runway capacity or typical throughput for Level 2 airports by
reviewing hourly data on the arrival and departure rates that air
traffic control indicates could be accepted for that hour, commonly
known as ``called'' rates. The FAA also reviews the actual number of
arrivals and departures that operated in the same hour. Generally,
the FAA uses the higher of the two numbers, called or actual, for
identifying trends and schedule review purposes. Some dates are
excluded from analysis, such as during periods when extended airport
closures or construction could affect capacity.
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Finally, the FAA notes that the schedule information submitted by
carriers to the FAA may be subject to disclosure under the Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA). The WSG also provides for release of
information at certain stages of slot coordination and schedule
facilitation. In general, once it acts on a schedule submission or slot
request, the FAA may release information on slot allocation or similar
slot transactions or schedule information reviewed as part of the
schedule facilitation process. The FAA does not expect that practice to
change and most slot and schedule information would not be exempt from
release under FOIA. The FAA recognizes that some carriers may submit
information on schedule plans that is both customarily and actually
treated as private. Carriers that submit such confidential schedule
information should clearly mark the information, or any relevant
portions thereof, as proprietary information (``PROPIN''). The FAA will
take the necessary steps to protect properly designated information to
the extent allowable by law.
EWR General Information
Consistent with the WSG, carriers are asked for their voluntary
cooperation to adjust schedules to meet the targeted scheduling limits
in order to minimize potential congestion and delay. For the Winter
2022/2023 season, the voluntary, targeted hourly scheduling limit
remains at 79 operations and 43 operations per half-hour.\7\ To help
with a balance between arrivals and departures, the targeted maximum
number of scheduled arrivals or departures, respectively, is 43 in an
hour and 24 in a half-hour. These targets are expected to allow some
higher levels of operations in certain periods (not to exceed the
hourly limits) and some recovery from lower demand in adjacent periods.
Consistent with general established practice at EWR, the FAA will
accept flights above the limits if the flights were operated as
approved, or treated as operated, by the same carrier on a regular
basis in the previous corresponding season (i.e., Winter 2021/2022).
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\7\ 83 FR 21335 (May 9, 2018).
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Notwithstanding the targeted limits at EWR previously described,
OST and the FAA have decided to reintroduce and reassign 16 peak
afternoon and evening runway timings, which were historically approved
for operation by Southwest Airlines, Inc. at EWR prior to the carrier's
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November 2019. \8\ This proposed reassignment of schedule timings at
EWR is an independent process outside of the FAA's routine schedule
review process. Once the reassignment proceeding is complete, the FAA
will seek to work in coordination with the awarded carrier to adjust
schedules within the peak afternoon and evening period, including minor
changes between adjacent half hours, in the interest of optimizing
efficiency and accommodating the carrier's schedule plans, consistent
with the usual Level 2 process.
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\8\ Reassignment of Schedules at Newark-Liberty International
Airport, 86 FR 52285 (Sept. 20, 2021). See also Reassignment of
schedules at Newark-Liberty International Airport, Docket DOT-OST-
2021-0103 (Feb. 25, 2022).
Issued in Washington, DC, on May 13, 2022.
Virginia T. Boyle,
Vice President, System Operations Services.
[FR Doc. 2022-10740 Filed 5-16-22; 11:15 am]
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