Spirit and Frontier Sue U.S. Over New Reagan National Airport Flights
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Spirit and Frontier are taking issue with the way the Department of Transportation applied certain legal definitions when awarding long-distance flights out of Reagan National Airport.
Spirit Airlines and Frontier Airlines have both filed lawsuits against the Department of Transportation over five new flights that were granted at Reagan National Airport in December.
The extra slots, which came from a provision in the Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act, were highly coveted, given Reagan National’s proximity to Washington, D.C. Reagan National limits flights to within a 1,250-mile radius, but the FAA bill allowed the DOT to award five
