The FAA last week conducted a mini-lottery to allocate 21 unused slot exemptions that became available at New York LaGuardia airport since the agency's initial "slottery" plan—a stopgap measure to ease LGA's capacity woes —went into effect Jan. 31. Last year, Air-21 legislation allowed the slot-exemption door at high-density airports to swing wide open to new entrants and carriers servicing small communities.
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