Notice2022-21693
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 Summer 2023 Scheduling Season
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October 5, 2022
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Transportation DepartmentFederal Aviation Administration
Abstract
Under this notice, the FAA announces the submission deadline of October 6, 2022, for Summer 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 192 (Wednesday, October 5, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60430-60432]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-21693]
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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
Summer 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 October 6, 2022, for Summer 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 October 6, 2022.
ADDRESSES: Schedules may be submitted to the Slot Administration Office
by email to: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#b3849ef2e4f29ec0dfdcc7d2d7dedaddf3d5d2d29dd4dcc5"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="b6819bf7e1f79bc5dad9c2d7d2dbdfd8f6d0d7d798d1d9c0">[email protected]</span></a>.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Al Meilus, Manager, Slot
Administration and Capacity Analysis, FAA ATO System Operations
Services, AJR-G, Federal Aviation Administration, 800 Independence
Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20591; telephone (202) 267-2822; email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#92d3febcdff7fbfee7e1d2f4f3f3bcf5fde4"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="6d2c014320080401181e2d0b0c0c430a021b">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This document provides routine notice to
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carriers serving capacity-constrained airports in the United States,
including ORD, JFK, LAX, EWR, and SFO. In particular, this notice
announces the deadline for carriers to submit schedules for the Summer
2023 scheduling season. The FAA deadline coincides with the schedule
submission deadline established in the Calendar of Coordination
Activities as published by the International Air Transport Association
(IATA).\1\
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\1\ <a href="http://www.iata.org/contentassets/4ede2aabfcc14a55919e468054d714fe/calendar-coordination-activities.pdf">www.iata.org/contentassets/4ede2aabfcc14a55919e468054d714fe/calendar-coordination-activities.pdf</a>.
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General Information for All Airports
The FAA has designated JFK as an IATA Level 3 airport consistent
with the Worldwide Slot Guidelines (WSG).\2\ The FAA currently limits
scheduled operations at JFK by order that expires on October 29,
2022.\3\ The FAA intends to extend the JFK Order as well as a similar
order that applies to LGA.\4\
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\2\ The FAA generally applies the WSG to the extent there is no
conflict with U.S. law or regulation. The FAA recognizes the WSG has
been replaced by the Worldwide Airports Slot Guidelines (WASG)
edition 1, effective June 1, 2020, and subsequently WASG edition 2,
effective July 1, 2022. The WASG is published jointly by Airports
Council International-World, IATA, and the Worldwide Airport
Coordinators Group (WWACG). While the FAA is considering whether to
implement certain changes to the Guidelines in the United States, it
will continue to apply WSG edition 9.
\3\ Operating Limitations at John F. Kennedy International
Airport, 73 FR 3510 (Jan. 18, 2008), as most recently extended 85 FR
58258 (Sept. 18, 2020). The slot coordination parameters for JFK are
set forth in this Order.
\4\ Operating Limitations at New York LaGuardia Airport, 71 FR
77854 (Dec. 27, 2006), as most recently extended 85 FR 38255, (Sep.
18, 2020). LGA is the equivalent of an IATA Level 3, coordinated
airport. Schedule submissions at LGA are not required for the Summer
2023 scheduling season as slots at LGA are allocated and managed by
the FAA under separate rules and processes.
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The FAA has designated EWR, LAX, ORD, and SFO as Level 2 airports
\5\ subject to a schedule review process premised upon voluntary
cooperation. The Summer 2023 scheduling season is from March 26, 2023,
through October 28, 2023, in recognition of the IATA summer scheduling
period.
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\5\ These designations remain effective until the FAA announces
a change in the Federal Register.
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The FAA is primarily concerned 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 Summer 2023 scheduling season are: at EWR and JFK, from 0600 to
2300 Eastern Time (1000 to 0300 UTC); at LAX and SFO, from 0600 to 2300
Pacific Time (1300 to 0600 UTC); and at ORD, from 0600 to 2100 Central
Time (1100 to 0200 UTC). These hours are unchanged from previous
scheduling seasons.
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-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. The primary users of IDs are United States
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 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 that are
consistent with the WSG as it reviews schedule and slot requests at
Level 2 and Level 3 airports, including (1) historic slots or services
from the previous equivalent season over new demand for the same
timings; (2) services that are unchanged over services that plan to
change time or other capacity relevant parameters; (3) introduction of
year-round services; (4) effective period of operation; (5) regularly
planned operations over ad hoc operations; and (6) other operational
factors that may limit a carrier's timing flexibility.
The FAA seeks to maintain close communications with carriers and
terminal schedule facilitators on potential runway schedule issues or
terminal and gate issues that may affect the runway times. 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 Summer 2022 scheduling season,\6\ slots or
schedules operated as approved on a non-historic or an ad hoc basis in
Summer 2022 will be given priority over new requests for the same
timings in Summer 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 Summer 2023,
which are comparable in timing, frequency, and duration to the ad hoc
approvals made by the FAA for Summer 2022 and operated by the carrier
as approved. 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 Summer 2022
and which seek to resume operating in Summer 2023. The FAA may consider
this priority in the event that slots with the potential for 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.
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\6\ See FAA Notice of Limited, Conditional Extension of COVID-19
Related Relief for International Operations only for the Summer 2022
Scheduling Season, 87 FR 18057 (Mar. 29, 2022).
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Slot management in the United States differs in some respects 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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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.\7\ 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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\7\ 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 Summer
2023 scheduling season, the voluntary, targeted hourly scheduling
limits remains at 79 operations and 43 operations per half-hour.\8\ 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., Summer 2022) and
consistent with the recent DOT reassignment of 16 peak-hour runway
timings.\9\
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\8\ 83 FR 21335 (May 9, 2018).
\9\ See Department of Transportation Order 2022-7-1, Docket DOT-
OST-2021-0103, served July 5, 2022, ``Reassignment of Schedules at
Newark-Liberty International Airport''.
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The FAA is aware that some carriers have recently operated flights
without approved runway times, which is inconsistent with Level 2
airport principles. Carriers are reminded FAA approval for runway times
is separate from the approval process for gates or other airport
infrastructure and both are essential for the success of Level 2 at
EWR. Schedule facilitation at Level 2 airports is designed to engender
collaboration and gain mutual agreement between the carriers and the
FAA regarding schedules and potential adjustments to stay within the
performance goals and capacity limits of the airport and to mitigate
delays and congestion that would result in the need for Level 3 slot
controls.\10\ As we emerge from the pandemic, the FAA expects that all
carriers operating at EWR will respect the targeted hourly and half-
hourly scheduling limits and continue to work cooperatively with the
FAA in order to avoid unacceptable delays and other adverse operational
impacts at the airport. The Level 2 process at EWR does not provide
priority consideration for flights that were scheduled or operated
without approved runway times.\11\
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\10\ See FAA Slot Administration website ``Slot Administration--
U.S. Level 2 Airports'' available at: <a href="https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ato/service_units/systemops/perf_analysis/slot_administration/slot_administration_schedule_facilitation/level-2-airports">https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ato/service_units/systemops/perf_analysis/slot_administration/slot_administration_schedule_facilitation/level-2-airports</a>.
\11\ Change of Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR)
Designation, 81 FR 19861 at 19862 (April, 6, 2016). Note: The WSG
recognizes that some carriers might operate at times without
approval from the airports schedule facilitator. Further, the Change
of EWR Designation notice provides ``consistent with the WSG
carriers would not receive historic status for such flights if the
airport level changes from Level 2 to Level 3.''
Issued in Washington, DC, on September 30, 2022.
Alyce Hood-Fleming,
Acting Vice President, System Operations Services.
[FR Doc. 2022-21693 Filed 10-3-22; 11:15 am]
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