Delta, US Airways respond to U.S. DoT decision on New York-Washington, D.C. slot transaction

09-Feb-2010 Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) and US Airways (NYSE: LCC) today issued the following statement in response to the U.S. Department of Transportation's proposed rulemaking on the airlines' previously announced slot transaction at New York's LaGuardia and Washington's Reagan-National airports. In its decision, DOT said it would require the airlines to divest 20 of the 125 slot pairs involved at New York-LaGuardia and 14 of the 42 slot pairs at Washington-National.