OST Docket Filings for June 20, 1997
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OST Docket Filings for June 20, 1997
Air UK and Leisure | AirTran | ALM | American | American and TACA | China Airlines | HeavyLift Cargo |
IATA | ANPRM: Domestic Manifest (3)
Notices of Action Taken:
Orders:
IATA (2) | Merced and Visalia, CA
Air UK (Leisure) and Leisure International Airways Limited
June 20, 1997
Counsel: Fulbright Jaworski, Susan Gotbetter, 212-318-3121
ALM Antillean Airlines N.V. and ALM 1997 Airline N.V. (Transfer of Foreign Air Carrier Permit)
OST-97-2486 | June 20, 1997
Supplement No. 1 to
Joint Application for Transfer of a Foreign Air Carrier Permit
In completion of its application, the Joint Applicants hereby submit the two documents which evidence ALM 1997's operating authority, namely (1) Decree of the Central Government of the Netherlands Antilles of May 14, 1997, and (2) the Ministerial Decree of May 15, 1997. Additionally, attached is the Declaration of ALM 1 997's president certifying that the copies attached hereto are true and correct copies of the decrees.
Declaration | Decree of the Central Gov’t of the Netherlands Antilles of 5/14/97 | Ministerial Decree of 5/15/97
Counsel: ALM and Ginsburg Feldman, Bruce Rabinovitz, 202-637-9036
AirTran Airways, Inc. (Exemption, LaGuardia Slots)
OST-97-2557 | June 20, 1997
The relevant circumstances of AirTran's application for an exemption are comparable to those in which the Department granted the exemption requests of Reno Air and Air South. Based on the identified corporate demand, and the low-fare, highly competitive service to be provided, scent traffic win be generated between Quad City/Bloomington/Normal and LaGuardia to support the proposed service. Granting the exemption would enable non-stop or single plane service from four airports and twenty communities to the key business market that is currently underserved. Accordingly, the Department should grant AirTran's application.
Counsel: Hopkins Sutter, Thomas Devine, 202-835-8000
American Airlines, Inc. (Exemption Renewal, Dallas-San Jose del Cabo)
OST-96-1614 | June 20, 1997
Application for Renewal
of Exemption Authority
American has continuously provided nonstop service between Dallas/Ft. Worth and San Jose del Cabo since November 1996, and currently operates six roundtrip flights per week, using 139-seat MD80 aircraft.
Map | Schedule | Operating Statistics | Route Map | Service List
Counsel: American, Carl Nelson, 202-496-5647, carl_nelson@amrcorp.com
American Airlines, Inc. and The TACA Group Reciprocal Code Share Services Proceeding
OST-96-1700 | June 20, 1997
Consolidated Surreply of Continental
Airlines and Motion for Leave to File
The Department should see through the Joint Applicants' claim that their exclusivity clause does not mean what it says. The express language of the exception clearly provides "that 'the TACA Group's existing arrangement with Continental Airlines' is not subject to the exclusivity clause." (Emphasis added) American's after-the-fact claim that "the parties intended not only that Continental's existing arrangement would not be affected, but that Continental, if it so desired, could seek to expand and broaden its relationship with the TACA Group" (American Reply at 25) is inconsistent with the language the parties used. The TACA Group's gratuitous claim that Continental "is free to implement and expand its current, authorized code-share relationship with the TACA Group carriers if it wishes to do sot is equally disingenuous. However, the existence of a DOT-approved Continental/TACA code-share arrangement shows that there is no basis for TACA's assertion that American is " TACA's only realistic option for a U.S. partner."
Counsel: Continental and Crowell Moring, Bruce Keiner, 202-624-2500
China Airlines, Ltd. (Exemption, Taipei-Washington Combination Service)
OST-97-2641 | June 20, 1997
Application for Exemption
Authority
The requested exemption authority would allow CAL the flexibility to provide Taipei-Washington service in keeping with the demands of the market. CAL plans to offer Taipei-Los Angeles-Washington service on a code-sharing basis with American Airlines, Inc. American), whereby CAL would operate the segment between Taipei and Los Angeles, and American would operate the segment between Los Angeles and Washington. Under this proposal, CAL would place its airline designator code on certain American flights between Los Angeles and Washington. American currently is authorized to place its designator code on certain CAL flights between Taipei and Los Angeles.
Answers are due by July 7, 1997
Counsel: Wilmer Cutler, Jeffrey Shane, 202-663-6000
Fine Airlines, Inc. (Notice of Action Taken – Renew and Amend)
OST-97-2162 | Posted June 20, 1997
Scheduled foreign air transportation of cargo between Miami and Bogota/Barranquilla/Cali/Cartagena and to integrate this authority with its authority to serve Caracas. Also requested amendment of this authority to integrate it with existing exemption and certificate authority.
By: Paul Gretch / Counsel: Jeffrey Shane, 202-663-6000
HeavyLift Cargo Airlines, Ltd. (Exemption)
OST-97-2638 | June 20, 1997
HeavyLift Cargo Airlines, Ltd. ("HeavyLift") a United Kingdom cargo charter air carrier hereby applies, pursuant to 49 U.S.C. § 40109(g), for exemption from the otherwise applicable provisions of the statute and of the Department's regulations so as to authorize HeavyLift's operation of one one-way outsize cargo charter flight, on or about July 4, 1997, in interstate air transportation in HeavyLift's Shorts SH5 "Belfast" aircraft from Los Angeles, CA to Cape Canaveral, FL transporting one spacecraft.
Attachment – Letter from Hughes Space and Communicaitons
Counsel: Miller Hamilton, Lester Bridgeman, 334-432-1414
Merced and Visalia, California (EAS)
Order 97-6-22 | OST-97-2639 (49091) | OST-97-2640 (41599) | Issued June 20, 1997 | Served June 26, 1997
By this order, the Department is tentatively reselecting WestAir Commuter Airlines, Inc., d/b/a United Express, to provide subsidized essential air service (EAS) at Merced, California, for the two-year period beginning May 1, 1997. For the first five months of the rate period, May 1, 1997, through September 30, 1997, we tentatively select WestAir to provide ten nonstop round trips a week to San Francisco at the annual subsidy rate of $350,622. For the period beginning October 1, 1997, through April 30, 1999, we tentatively select WestAir to provide Merced with 24 nonstop round trips each week to San Francisco at the annual subsidy rate of $750,890. We also will rely on the subsidy-free essential air service WestAir has proposed between Visalia and Los Angeles.
Appendix A – Map | Appendix B – WestAir EAS at Merced | Appendix C – WestAir EAS at Merced | Service List
By: Charles Hunnicutt
Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: Domestic Passenger Manifest Information
Notice 97-4 | OST-97-2198 | June 20, 1997
Comments of the Air
Transport Association of America
The ANPRM outlines a very ambitious information-collection requirement that, if adopted, would erode customer service because of the demands it would place on the passenger processing system. That adverse effect would be experienced most directly in reservations, ticketing, and airport check-in. All participants, passengers, travel agents and air carriers thus would bear the costs of such an initiative. Ultimately, however, the greatest detriment would be substantially diminished productivity in the domestic airline system, especially in aircraft utilization rates, which would imperil the efficiencies that have benefited consumers. Equally important, the contemplated rule would force airline customers to part, on a scale that is unprecedented, with sensitive personal information.
Counsel: ATA, James Casey, 202-626-4211
Comments of the State
of Hawaii
While the State of Hawaii fully endorses the important goal of the Aviation Disaster Family Assistance Act of 1996, and of the ANPRM to ensure prompt notification to family members in the unfortunate event of an aviation disaster, the State urges the DOT to develop the most cost-effective and least intrusive means of achieving this goal, without creating unnecessary disincentives and hardships for the traveling public or for the airlines.
Counsel: Hawaii and Shaw Pittman, Robert Cohn, 202-663-8060
Comments of Trans
World Airlines
The major issue in this case is whether the ability to provide faster notice to relatives of persons killed or injured in an aircraft accident justifies the burden that would be placed on the entire air transportation system. In order to make this judgment, the Department must develop realistic estimates of the actual cost of the proposal, including the delay costs that would be imposed upon passengers. The Department has estimated that the conversation required to collect the data would consume only 40 seconds, and, to be safe, has also provided an estimate of cost if the conversation took 60 seconds. On the basis of this estimate, it assumed relatively modest regulatory costs of between $108.7 and $217. 5 million. Of these costs, only approximately 20 percent would be borne directly by airlines, with most of the costs being the value of time forgone by passengers while providing information.
Appendix A – Responses to Domestic Passenger Manifest ANPRM | Appendix B – Results of Survey | Appendix C – Newspaper Articles | Appendix D – Estimated Cost Reservations | Appendix E – Estimated Cost Airport
Counsel: TWA and Richard Fahy, 202-457-4764
Order 97-6-21 | OST-97-2409 | Issued June 20, 1997 | Served June 26, 1997
The agreement revises an earlier agreed, fuel-related three percent fare increase to reflect the actions of the Governments of Angola, China, Malawi, Mongolia, Tanzania, Tunisia and Uganda.2/ In most cases, this results it. partial or total cancellation of the increase, except in the case of Uganda, where certain fares to select African destinations increase five to ten percent.
By: Paul Gretch
Notice of Approval of IATA Agreement(s)
June 20, 1997
OST-97-2621 Filed: 6/16/97 Approved: 6/20/97
OST-97-2630 Filed: 6/18/97 Approved: 6/20/97
Application for Approval of Agreements Adopted by IATA
OST-97-2642 | June 20, 1997
Counsel: IATA, David O’Connor, 202-624-2977
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