Joint Application of American Airlines and Aero California / Joint Answer of United Air Lines and Mexicana / October 29, 1997
RE: Joint Application of American Airlines, Inc. and Aero California S.A. de C.V. for Renewal of Statements of Authorization under 14 CFR Parts 207 and 212 (Code-Share Services), dated October 20, 1997
Dear Sir:
United Air Lines, Inc. ("United") and Compania Mexicana de Aviacion S.A. de C.V. ("Mexicana") hereby jointly answer the above-referenced
1. By their joint application, American and Aero California seek renewal of their statement of authorization to code share on each other's services. That authority is scheduled to expire on December 20, 1997, because of the Department's concern over the term of the renewal granted by the Mexican government for the code-share authority of Alaska Airlines and Northwest Airlines.
Order 97-7-31 at 7.
2. United and Mexicana have also requested renewal of their own statements of authorization to code share on each other's services. See
Joint Application, dated October 21, 1997. The United/Mexicana authority, like that of American/Aero California, is also scheduled to expire on December 20, 1997, and for the same reason. See Notices (2), dated June 24, 1997, in Docket OST-96-1938.
3. United and Mexicana have no objection to the renewal of the American/Aero California code-share authority so long as the United/Mexicana codeshare authority is also renewed. These U.S.-Mexico code-share services offer benefits to the public in terms of additional travel options. The United/Mexicana and American/Aero California code shares offer competition with each other and both
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should be renewed to allow that competition to continue. There is no basis for renewing one set of these code-share authorizations on terms different from those applicable to the other.
Respectfully submitted,
GINSBURG FELDMAN, Joel Burton
Counsel for UNITED AIR LINES, INC.
SQUIRE SANDERS, Robert Papkin
Counsel for COMPANIA MEXICANA DE AVIACION, S.A. DE C.V.