OST Docket Filings for March 18, 1998

OST Docket Filings for March 18, 1998

Applications and Renewals:

Air Nostrum/Aviacon | Transnet/South African

Answers and Replies:

Polynesian

Notices of Action Taken:

None

Notices and Orders:

Mesa EAS Communities | US Airways v UK

Air Nostrum (Lineas Aereas del Mediterraneo, S.A.) / Aviacon y Comercio, S.A. (Codeshare, Spain-US, with American)

OST-98-3640 | March 18, 1998

Joint Application for an Exemption

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Apply for exemption from 49 U.S.C. § 41301 to enable them to bear the "AA" designator code of American Airlines, Inc. on their flights between Madrid, on the one hand, and, on the other, the points in Spain and the European points listed below. AN and AV would provide such codeshare service on American's behalf only as part of a through transatlantic service offering by American between Madrid and the United States.

Exhibit 1: Spanish Operating Licenses
Exhibit 2: Current Aircraft Fleets
Exhibit 3: Current Schedules
Exhibit 4: Ownership
Exhibit 5: Officers, Directors, and Key Management
Exhibit 6: Air Nostrum Annual Report for 1996 | Aviaco Annual Report for 1996
Exhibit 7: Certificates of Insurance
Exhibit 8: Montreal Agreement Counterparts

Answers are due by April 2, 1998

Service List

Counsel: Steptoe Johnson, Williiam Karas, 202-429-6223

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Ninety-day Notices of Intent to Terminate Service Filed By Mesa Air Service

Order 98-3-17 | Issued March 18, 1998 | Served March 24, 1998

Order Allowing Suspension of Service

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We have decided to allow Mesa to suspend service at the communities as scheduled. In reaching this decision,
we have carefully reviewed the scheduled service that each community would continue to receive in the event of Mesa's departure. Nine of the communities will continue to receive at least four round trips a day to a large hub, and four will continue to receive service with jets. Only Eureka/Arcata and Redding/Red Bluff will receive as few as three round trips a day, and that service is provided with 32-seat Dash 8 aircraft. We conclude that these remaining services will provide each of the 11
communities with a link to the national air transportation network that fully meets their essential air service requirements.

Attachment A - Map | Attachemnt B - Remaining Service at Communities for which Mesa has Filed Suspension Notices Attachment C - Replacement Service at Communities for which Mesa has Filed Suspension Notices

EUREKA/ARCATA, CALIFORNIA / OST-98-3535
REDDING/RED BLUFF, CALIFORNIA / OST-98-3534
DURANGO, COLORADO / OST-98-3507
GRAND JUNCTION, COLORADO / OST-98-3537
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS/HAYDEN/CRAIG, COLORADO / OST-98-3501
FARMINGTON, NEW MEXICO / OST-98-3499
BIG BEND/REDMOND, OREGON / OST-98-3547
RAPID CITY, SOUTH DAKOTA / OST-98-3545
YAKIMA, WASHINGTON / OST-98-3533
CASPER, WYOMING / OST-98-3536
JACKSON, WYOMING / OST-98-3495

By: Charles Hunnicutt

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Polynesian Limited - (Emergency Exemption Maota, Samoa-Pago Pago, American Samoa)

OST-98-3631 | March 18, 1998

Answer of Hawaiian Airlines, Inc. to Application for Emergency Exemption

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Hawaiian asks the Department to explicitly condition the grant of this emergency exemption application, should the Department determine to rule in Polynesian's favor, on the explicit condition that the carriage of cabotage traffic will result in the immediate termination of the exemption authority in this docket and all other authority held by Polynesian from the United States.

Counsel: Jonathan Hill, 202.776.2725

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Transnet Limited d/b/a South African Airways (Exemption Renewal and Statement of Authorization)

OST-95-799 | OST-95-529 | March 18, 1998

Application for Renewal of an Exemption and Statement of Authorization

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Continue to provide scheduled air transportation of persons, property and mail between: (1) Johannesburg, South Africa, and New York, New York, via the intermediate point Ilha do Sal, Cape Verde; (2) Johannesburg/Cape Town and Miami, Florida; and (3) Johannesburg and Los Angeles, California (and, on this Los Angeles route, to commingle blind sector traffic not moving in foreign air transportation between Johannesburg and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); and to engage in charter foreign air transportation under the Department's regulations governing charters (14 CFR Part 212). The exemption also authorizes SAA to serve Los Angeles, New York and Miami on a co-terminal basis.

Answers are due by April 2, 1998

Service List

Counsel: Galland Kharasch, Anita Mosner, 202-342-5200

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US Airways, Inc. against The Government of the United Kingdom

Order 98-3-18 | OST-98-3615 | Issued and Served March 18, 1998

Order

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We invite interested parties to file answers to the complaint of US Airways no later that March 23, 1998 and if answers are filed, replies to those answers should be filed no later that March 25, 1998.

By: Charles Hunnicutt

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