Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Part Four

Introduction

A.

B.

CONTENTS

Subcommittee Questionnaire and Responses by the Civil

Aeronautics Board

Subcommittee Questionnaires and Responses by the Airlines

Materials Relating to Certification and Entry Regulation

by the Civil Aeronautics Board

Materials Relating to Fare Regulation by the Civil Aero-
nautics Board: The Domestic Passenger Fare Investigation

Part One

Questionnaire to the Civil Aeronautics Board-

Responses of Civil Aeronautics Board--

Part Two

1.) Questionnaire sent to the trunk and local-service

carriers----

2.) Questionnaire sent to the supplemental carriers---

3.) Questionnaire sent to the intrastate carriers-----

III

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627

636

637

A.

Civil Aeronautics Board, Bureau of Operating Rights, The
Domestic Route System (staff study, Oct. 1974)----

223

B.

C.

Civil Aeronautics Board, memorandum from Director, Bureau of
Operating Rights, to the CAB, dated Oct. 2, 1972, re future
of the Board's route program (notation #3220)-----
Lucille Sheppard Keyes, special consultant to the subcommitee,
"Present, Proposed, and Past CAB Policy Toward Route Auth-
ority, in Relation to Legislative Intent" (1975)--------

248

254

D.

Stuart Glass, legislative attorney, American Law Division,
Library of Congress, Congressional Research Service, "Law
and Procedures Regarding Major New Route Proceedings Before
the Civil Aeronautics Board" (1975)---

2575

CAB Order 74-3-81 (1974) (DPFI Phase 6B, supplemental or-
der and order on reconsideration)--

2787

E.

Fare Structure:

CAB Order 74-3-82 (1974) (DPFI Phase 9)-

3087

CAB Order 74-12-109 (1974) (DPFI Phase 9, order on recon-
sideration)---

3291

CAB Order 74-12-110 (1974) (Domestic Night Coach Fare In-
vestigation)--

3343

Inadvertent Omissions from the Hearings

A.

James Gagnon, chairman, Ad Hoc Committee on Air Commerce,
Airport Operators Council International, prepared state-
ment, Attachments A and B---

3349,

3361

B.

United States v. CAB, 511 F.2d 1315 (D.C. Cir. 1975)--------

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PART I

QUESTIONS SUBMITTED BY THE SUBCOMMITTEE

TO THE CIVIL AERONAUTICS BOARD

1. List all fare increases (and amounts) granted to passenger airlines within the last five years.

2. List all fare decreases (and amounts) granted to passenger airlines--domestic and foreign--within the past five years.

3. Explain in some detail, how the CAB sets or approves rates.
Do Board members or staff ever meet formally or informally with
representatives of the airlines to discuss fare policy? Did such
meetings take place prior to the Moss decision?

4. Please list all meetings and phone conversations occurring within the past year involving any representative of any firm regulated by the Board and a) a Board member, or b) his personal assistants, or c) a bureau director, where the matters discussed included any matter which was, or which ater became, the subject, in part or in whole, or a rule making proceeding or an adjudicatory proceeding. Include social occasions. Omit formal meetings of the Board. Describe each such conversation; include a list of those present, the subjects discussed, and the positions taken by the parties.

5. Please list all other meetings and phonce nversations occurring within the past year involving any representative of any firm regulated by the Board and any Board member. Include social occasions. Omit formal meetings of the Board. Describe each such conversation; include a list of those present, the subjects discussed, and the positions taken by the parties.

6. Please provide the same information requested in question #4 in respect to meetings or phone conversations within the past year involving employees of the Executive Branch and a) a board member, or b) his personal assistants, or c) a bureau director.

}. Please provide the same information requested in question #5 in respect to meetings or phone conversations within the past year involving a member of the Executive Branch and a Board member.

P. List the hundred most travelled city pair routes--including international as well as domestic routes. As to cach, list the fares for an ordinary coach flight for each year from 1965 to the present. List the load factors and number of competitors and effective competitors on each route for the years 1965 to the present. If more than 10% of the traffic in any of these markets moved at a fare or fares lower than the ordinary coach fare, list that fare, the conditions on it, if any, and the percent of traffic moving at

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