OST Docket Filings for February 23, 1998
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Air India | Brittannia | Heavylift | Mesa (EAS) (3) | Rio Air | Southern Air Transport | Vanguard | IATA
Answers and Replies:
Notices of Action Taken:
Notices and Orders:
Air India Ltd. (Exemption, Mumbai-Los Angeles Codeshare with Singapore Airlines)
OST-98-3549 | February 23, 1998
Air-India and Singapore Airlines have entered into a blockedspace/code-share agreement. Pursuant to that agreement, Air-India intends to sell service between Mumbai and other points in India, on the one hand, and Los Angeles, on the other, via the intermediate points of Singapore and Taipei. Air-India will not sell fifth freedom traffic between Los Angeles, on the one hand, and Taipei or Singapore, on the other hand. Singapore Airlines will operate the Los Angeles-Taipei-Singapore portion of the flight with its own aircraft and personnel and Air-India will operate, with its own aircraft and personnel, the segment of the flights between various points in India and Singapore. Singapore will display Air-India's two-letter designator code on Singapore's Los Angeles-Taipei-Singapore flight segments. Air India does not plan to display Singapore's airline designator code on its flights between Singapore and various points in India.
Counsel: Squire Sanders, Marshall Sinick, 202-626-6651
OST-97-3274 | February 20, 1998
Supplement and Amendment to Application for Foreign Air Carrier
Permit
Brittannia Hereby supplements and amends its application by substituting for original Exhibits A, I and L the Supplements and Amended Exhibits A, I and L.
Counsel: Miller Hamilton, Lester Bridgeman, 334.432.1414
OST-98-3544 | February 20, 1998
Application for Emergency Exemption
HeavyLift Volga Dnepr, Ltd. requests an immediate grant of this application to permit the operation on February 28, 1998 of one one-way cargo charter flight transporting one satellite in container from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Moffett Field, California in Volga Dnepr's AN124-100 aircraft.
Exhibit - Re: Charter Flight Philadelphia-Moffett Field, CA | Service List
Counsel: Miller Hamilton, Lester Bridgeman, 334.432.1414
Mesa Air Group, Inc. d/b/a United Express
OST-98-3548 | February 23, 1998
90-Day Notice for Suspension at Crescent City, CA
Service List | Exhibit A - Crescent City, CA
OST-98-3545 | February 23, 1998
90-Day Notice for Suspension of Air Service at Rapid
City, SD
Service List | Exhibit A - Rapid City, S.D.
OST-98-3547 | February 23, 1998
90-Day Notice for Suspension at Redmond, Oregon
Service List | Exhibit A - Redmond, OR
Counsel: V. Michael Strauss, 202.785.2242
Polar Air Cargo, Inc. - (New Notice of Action Taken)
OST-97-2265 | Filed February 18, 1998 | Action Taken February 23, 1998
By Order 97-1-17 the Department granted Polar Air Cargo exemption authority to provide scheduled all-cargo service in the U.S.-Philippine market. That authority was subject to the condition that Polar Air inaugurate service within 90 days from the issue date of the order (January 24, 1997) or the authority would expire. Since then, on various dates the Department has extended the date on which Polar must commence service, pending receipt of the necessary operating licenses from the Philippines. (See Orders 97-6-16, 97-9-20, 97-11-19, and 98-1-23.) The last action extended the startup deadline through March 6, 1998. Polar seeks further extension of the March 6 startup date to May 5, 1998. Polar believes that grant of the necessary approvals by the Philippine authorities should be secured by May 5, 1998.
Applicant Rep: Jeffrey Manley, 202.637.9057
Rio Air Express, S.A. - (Brazil-US Charter Passenger/Combination)
OST-95-921 | February 23, 1998
Application for Renewal of Exemption
The Department of Transportation should issue an order renewing for one year the exemption of Rio Air Express, S.A. to provide passenger and combination service between Brazil and the United States using A300-B4-200 aircraft with capacity of up to 259 seats.
Answers are due by March 13, 1998.
Counsel: Suzette Matthews, 540.364.3470
Southern Air Transport (Exemption Renewal, US-Colombia Scheduled All-Cargo)
OST-96-1153 | February 23, 1998
Application for Renewal of Scheduled Exemption Authority
By an application which is currently pending in Docket 48658, Southern Air is seeking amendment of its §401 Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity authorizing scheduled all-cargo service on this route. Since the Department has not yet acted upon Southern Air's §401 Certificate Amendment application seeking to conduct scheduled all-cargo service on this route, the scheduled exemption authority granted to Southern Air by the May 21, 1997 Notice of Action Taken will expire by its own terms on May 21, 1998.
Southern Air therefore requests that its authority to conduct scheduled all-cargo service between a point or points in the United States, on the one hand, and the coterminal points Barranquilla, Bogota, Call, and Cartagena, Colombia, on the other hand, via intermediate points be extended by a further year.
Answers are due by March 10, 1998
Counsel: Pierre Murphy, Elizabeth Collins, 202-872-1679
US-Colombia All-Cargo Services - (for exemption and/or reallocation of authorization )
Order 98-2-24 | OST-98-3543 | Issued February 23, 1998 | Served February 26, 1998
Order on Replacement Service and to Show Cause
By this order, we have decided to replace Millon Air, Inc., as one of the six U.S. carriers authorized to provide U.S.-Colombia scheduled all-cargo services, and we tentatively select Atlas Air, Inc., to provide scheduled foreign air transportation of property and mail between Miami, Florida, on the one hand, and Barranquilla, Bogota, and Call, Colombia, on the other hand.
By: Patrick Murphy
U.S.-Japan Combination Service Proceeding
OST-98-3149 | February 23, 1998
The Dallas/Fort Worth motion is compelling, and should be granted by the Department forthwith. By doing so, the Department will allow for the prompt use of bilaterally negotiated rights, and provide the opportunity for U.S. communities to reap the maximum benefit from the new U.S.-Japan agreement.
Counsel: American, Carl Nelson, 202-496-5647, carl_nelson@amrcorp.com
Amends its Motion filed February 20, 1998 to the extent that the decision by U.S. Airways to withdraw its application for both code-share and direct service, made public after the filing of Hawaiian's Motion on the 20th, leaves no contestable issue as to Hawaiian's application for designation as the fifth carrier commencing service in the year 2000. Because of U.S. Airways withdrawal there is no other carrier applying for the fifth designation. Because of this fact, there is no reason to delay issuance of a final Order certifying Hawaiian as the fifth carrier.
Counsel: Dow Lohnes, Jonathan Hill, 202-776-2000
It is critical that the United States move as quickly as possible to implement these new rights. The Department made the correct beginning by authorizing pendente lite exemption authority for American, Continental and Delta to operate 7 frequencies each to Tokyo. Now, given the limited volume of applications for new services to Japan, the Department should quickly act to award all 64 frequencies applied for in l998.
Counsel: Ball Janik, Bill Alberger, 202-638-3307
Vanguard Airlines, Inc. (Exemption, High Density Rule, Kansas City/Pittsburgh-New York JFK)
OST-98-3550 | February 23, 1998
In order to establish profitable operations at JFK, it is critical that Vanguard offer both a sufficient number of flights and convenient flight times. The Kansas City-New York (JFK) and Pittsburgh-New York (JFK) markets are primarily business markets. Vanguard's ability to offer frequent and convenient flights for the value-conscious business traveler is severely limited by the slot regulations. Flights originating in or arriving in Kansas City and Pittsburgh must be timed to connect to or from other Vanguard destinations both for generating traffic and for routing aircraft. Without additional frequencies during slot controlled times, Vanguard is unable to benefit from the synergies necessary to support service to JFK over the long term.
In addition, Vanguard is developing interline relationships with selected international carriers who serve JFK. In order to be successful in this endeavor, Vanguard must offer arriving and departing flights that are well-timed with its interline partner's arriving and departing flights. Discussions between Vanguard and potential interline partners have not been successful because Vanguard is unable to offer flights within the slot controlled time at JFK. Thus, Vanguard is currently foreclosed from any interline or codeshare opportunities and from competing with larger U.S. airlines for international travelers.
Answers are due by March 10, 1998
Counsel: Vanguard and Stephen Lachter, 202-862-4321
Agreements Adopted by the Traffic Conferences of the International Air Transport Association
OST-97-3215 | February 23, 1998
PTC2 EUR Fares 0024
OST-97-3244 | February 23, 1998
PTC3 0185 Corrects PTC3 0137
OST-98-3326 | February 23, 1998
Technical Correction of Pending Agreement
PTC3 Fares 0032
By: David O'Connor, IATA
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