---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 398.3"
title: "14"
number: "398.3"
heading: "Specific airports."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/398.3"
---

# §398.3. Specific airports.

- (a) At an eligible place, essential air service may be specified as service to a particular airport. In the case of hyphenated places, essential air service will be specified as service to more than one airport only if clearly necessary and if the multi-airport service is economically feasible and justified on the basis of traffic levels at those airports.
- (b) **At a hub, essential air service is not usually specified as service to a particular airport.**

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. Chapters 401, 417; Airport and Airway Safety and Capacity Expansion Act of 1987 (Pub. L. 100-223, Dec. 30, 1987).

### Source

Source: Docket No. OST-95-397, 60 FR 43529, Aug. 22, 1995, unless otherwise noted.