OST-95-520
OST-97-2944
OST-97-3289
OST-97-3218
OST-99-5463
OST-99-5392
Docket 48574
Served January 26, 2000
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Applications and Renewals:
American/Cathay Pacific - U.S.- Hong Kong | Kuwait - Orlando- Kuwait | Northwest - Detroit- Shanghai | TWA/Kuwait - U.S.- Kuwait
U.S.T.A.R. - Emergency Petition
Answers and Replies:
American/Sabena - Notice of Additional Codeshare | American/Swissair - Notice of Additional Codeshare | Continental - Additional Information
Gemini - Response of Polar | Pro - Omitted Service List | U.S.- Argentina - Revised Exhibits
U.S.- Brazil - Response of Continental/Rejoinder of Delta
Notices of Action Taken:
Continental | Delta | FedEx | Northwest
Notices and Orders:
Legend - Order Granting Waiver | Dismissing Applications | U.S.- China - Instituting Proceeding
| Order 00-1-19 OST-95-520 OST-97-2944 OST-97-3289 OST-97-3218 OST-99-5463 OST-99-5392 Docket 48574 |
Issued January 24, 2000 Served January 26, 2000 |
Order Dismissing Application |
New York-Shannon-Riga; U.S. - Los Mochis, Mexico; Atlanta/New York-South America; U.S.- Mexico; Bahrain via Brussels, Belgium; Los Angeles- Honolulu-Nadi- Sydney; |
| Appendix: Descriptions of Applications |
By: Paul Gretch
American Airlines, Inc. and Cathay Pacific Airways, Limited
| OST-00-6824 | January 24, 2000 | Joint
Application for Statement of Authorization |
U.S.- Hong Kong |
| Codeshare Agreement | |||
| Annex A: Definitions | |||
| Annex B: Codeshare Routes | |||
| Annex C: Minimum Standards of Ground and In- Flight Services | |||
| Annex D: Financial Settlement (Redacted) | |||
| Annex E: Governmental Approvals | |||
| Service List |
American requests a statement of authorization to display the "CX" designator code on flights operated by American or American Eagle on the U.S. domestic routes and on the intra-Americas routes listed in Annex B to the parties' codesharing agreement, a copy of which is attached to this application. Cathay Pacific requests a statement of authorization to display the "AA" designator code on flights operated by Cathay Pacific between Hong Kong, on the one hand, and Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York, on the other, and on the intra-Asia routes listed in Annex B.
American hereby requests an exemption authorizing foreign air transportation of persons, property, and mail between points in the United States and points in the Philippines. American further requests the right to integrate such authority with its certificate of public convenience and necessity for Route 137. The exemption authority American is seeking is fully consistent with the Air Services Agreement between the United States and the Philippines. Cathay Pacific currently lacks route authority to many of the points to which codeshare service is planned. To fill those gaps, Cathay Pacific hereby requests exemption authority to engage in scheduled foreign air transportation of persons, property, and mail between Hong Kong and the additional U.S. domestic and intra-Americas points listed in Annex B.
Counsel: American, Carl Nelson, 202.496.5647, carl_nelson@amrcorp.com, and Verner Liipfert, Russell Pommer, 202.371.6000
American Airlines, Inc. and N.V. Sabena S.A.
| OST-99-5943 | January 24,, 2000 | Notice of Additional Codesharing Services |
Blanket Statements of Authorization to Engage in Reciprocal Codesharing Services |
| Service List |
Hereby gives notice that, effective April 2, 2000, American will display Sabena's "SN" designator code on flights operated by American or American Eagle in the following additional city-pairs:
Counsel: American, Carl Nelson, 202.496.5647, carl_nelson@amrcorp.com
American Airlines, Inc. and Swissair, Swiss Air Transport Company Ltd.
| OST-99-5944 | January 24, 2000 | Notice of Additional Codesharing Services |
Blanket Statements of Authorization to Engage in Reciprocal Codesharing Services |
| Service List |
Hereby gives notice that, effective April 2, 2000, American will display Swissair's "SR" designator code on flights operated by American or American Eagle in the following additional city-pairs:
Counsel: American, Carl Nelson, 202.496.5647, carl_nelson@amrcorp.com
| OST-99-6760 | Filed January 7, 2000 Issued January 24, 2000 |
Notice of Action Taken |
New York- Newark - Belo Horizonte |
Scheduled foreign air transportation of persons, property, and mail between New York/Newark and Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Continental states that it intends to provide Belo Horizonte service beginning September 7, 2000, in conjunction with its New York/Newark-Rio de Janeiro service on a New York/Newark-Rio de Janeiro-Belo Horizonte routing. Continental notes that its certificate for Route 739 allows it to combine its Newark-Sao Paulo/Rio de Janeiro authority with all services authorized by other Department of Transportation exemptions.
By: Paul Gretch
| OST-99-6760 | January 24, 2000 | Re:
Letter of Clarification |
New York- Newark - Belo Horizonte |
Counsel: Crowell Moring, Bruce Keiner, 202 624-2615
| OST-99-6760 | January 24, 2000 | Re:
Poling Letter |
New York- Newark - Belo Horizonte |
| Service List |
Counsel: Crowell Moring, Bruce Keiner, 202 624-2615
| OST-99-6721 | Filed December 29, 1999 Issued January 24, 2000 |
Notice of Action Taken |
U.S.- Portugal |
Scheduled foreign air transportation of persons, property, and mail between a point or points in the United States, directly and via intermediate points, and a point or points in Portugal, and beyond, and to integrate this authority with its existing certificate and exemption authority. Delta intends to operate this service pursuant to a code-share arrangement with Air France, whereby Delta will display its designator code on flights operated by Air France between Paris and points in Portugal. Delta initially plans to offer third-country code-share services to Lisbon and Porto, Portugal
By: Paul Gretch
| OST-96-2018 | Filed December 17, 1999 Issued December 24, 2000 |
Notice Of Action Taken |
New York/Memphis- Moscow |
By Order 96-2-17 the Department granted Federal Express exemption authority to provide scheduled allcargo service in the New York/Memphis-Moscow market and allocated it five weekly all-cargo frequencies for this service. That award was subject to the condition that the frequency allocation will expire automatically and the frequencies will revert to the Department for reallocation if they are not used for a period of 90 days. On November 16, 1999, Federal Express temporarily suspended its direct flight operations serving Moscow. Federal Express seeks a waiver from the dormancy condition for all five of its frequencies until November 1, 2000. Federal Express states that insufficient traffic demand does not support the five-day-a-week operations which are essential for air express services, and further states that it will resume its U.S.-Russia direct service as soon as traffic conditions warrant.
By: Paul Gretch
| OST-99-6633 | January 24, 2000 | Response of Polar to Answer of UPS and
Motion for Leave to File |
U.S.- Columbia |
| Service List |
Where UPS's answer goes astray is in its characterization of the possible Ashbacker implications of Gemini's application. As explained in Polar's December 27, 1999 Answer filed in this docket, Ashbacker requirements are not invoked here. Gemini's interest in serving Colombia on its own behalf (as opposed to its current wet lease arrangement with TAMPA) surfaced over a year and a half after Polar and UPS filed applications in the U.S.-Colombia All Cargo Services case. Nothing in Ashbacker or other governing law or precedent calls upon the Department to cease or delay processing the current applications pending in the U.S.-Colombia All Cargo Services case simply because Gemini has expressed a Colombia interest after the record was closed.
Counsel: Kirkland Ellis, Jeffery Manley, 202.879.5161, jeffery_manley@kirkland.com
| OST-99-5588 | January 24, 2000 | Application for Exemption |
Orlando- Kuwait, via New York |
| Service List |
Kuwait Airways seeks to code-share on non-stop flights operated by TWA between Kuwait Airways' gateways at Orlando and New York. In this application, Kuwait Airways seeks, by exemption, economic operating authority between the points identified above to enable it to code-share with TWA.
Counsel: Dickstein Shapiro, Henry Cashen, 202.785.9700
| Order 00-1-20 OST-00-6788 |
Issued January 24, 2000 Served January 24, 2000 |
Order Granting Waiver |
Dallas/Ft. Worth |
In view of Legend's acceptance of the consumer-protection conditions that we have prescribed, its demonstration of continuing fitness, and affirmation by the FAA of the carrier's satisfactory progress toward certification, we find that it is in the public interest to grant Legend's request for a waiver of the pre-operational sales prohibitions of section 201.5.
By: Bradley Mims
| OST-00-6776 | Filed January 10, 2000 Issued January 24, 2000 |
Notice of Action Taken |
U.S.- Lisbon, Portugal, via Amsterdam, Rome and Milan |
Scheduled foreign air transportation of persons, property, and mail between a point or points in the United States, via intermediate points, and a point or points in Portugal, and beyond. Northwest also requests to integrate this authority with its existing certificate and exemption authority. Northwest intends to operate this service pursuant to code-share arrangements with KLM and Alitalia. Initially, Northwest plans to operate between the U.S. and Lisbon, Portugal, via Amsterdam, and between the U.S. and Lisbon, Portugal, via Rome and Milan. Northwest will display its designator code on KLM flights between Amsterdam and Lisbon, and on Alitalia flights between Rome and Milan, on the one hand, and Lisbon, on the other.
By: Paul Gretch
| OST-00-6819 | January 24, 2000 | Application for Statement of Authorization |
Detroit, Michigan - Shanghai, People's Republic of China |
| Service List |
The Department previously approved the Northwest/Air China code-share arrangement, and Northwest and Air China have been conducting code-share operations between the U. S. and China since October 1998.' This application merely seeks authority for Air China to code-share on Northwest's new twice weekly Detroit-Shanghai nonstop service, which Northwest is inaugurating effective April 6, 2000. Northwest will operate its new Detroit-Shanghai nonstop service utilizing the two frequencies Northwest was allocated in the China Air Services case earlier this year, available for services as of April 1, 2000.
Counsel: Northwest, Megan Rae Rosia, 202.842.3193, megan.poldy@nwa.com
| OST-99-6683 | January 24, 20000 | Re:
Omitted Service List |
LaGuardia Airport- Detroit City Airport |
| Service List |
Counsel: Winston Strawn, James Pitts, 202.371.5700
Trans World Airlines, Inc. and Kuwait Airways Corporation
| OST-99-5590 | January 24, 2000 | Joint Application for Statement of Authorization |
U.S.- Kuwait, Abu, Dhabi, Dubai and Muscat |
| Service List |
Kuwait Airways provides transatlantic service between Kuwait City and both Frankfurt and Amsterdam, as well as service between Kuwait and various points in Europe and the Middle East. It presently operates flights between New York and Kuwait, Chicago and Kuwait, and both Frankfurt and Amsterdam and Kuwait. Pursuant to an existing code-share agreement; NOAT issued June 21, 1999; TWA currently lists its designator code on Kuwait Airways's services between New York/Chicago and Kuwait, and on the New York- Amsterdam market, as well as on Kuwait Airways's connecting service to Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and Muscat. Under this additional code-share agreement, TWA will list its designator code on Kuwait Airways's services in the local New York-Frankfurt and Chicago-Amsterdam market as well as on Amsterdam-Kuwait and Frankfurt-Kuwait sectors.
Counsel: TWA, Richard Fahy, 703.768.9550 and Dickstein Shapiro, Henry Cashen, 202.785.9700
U.S.- China Air Service (2001)
| Order 00-1-21 OST-99-6323 |
Issued January 24, 2000 Served January 26, 2000 |
Order
Instituting Proceeding
|
U.S.- China Market |
| Appendix A: Summary of Applications | |||
| Appendix B: Civic Party Answers | |||
| Appendix C: Evidence Request |
We have decided to institute the U.S.-China Air Service (2001) case to consider the selection of an additional U.S. carrier to serve the market and the allocation of 10 additional weekly frequencies to designated carriers to provide scheduled services in the market, effective April 1, 2001. By this order we also establish further procedures and a procedural schedule that will be used in the comparative selection proceeding. This proceeding will consider the applications of American, Delta, UPS, and Polar for the available U.S. carrier designation, and the applications of those carriers and Federal Express, Northwest, and United for allocation of some or all or tile 10 new weekly frequencies available for allocation.
By: Bradley Mims
United States Travel Agent Registry
| OST-00-6821 | January 24, 2000 |  Emergency Petition for Rulemaking
Includes Attachments |
Unfair and Deceptive Practices and Unfair Methods of Competition in the Sale of Air Transportation |
| Attachment A: Description of Finances (In German) | |||
| Attachment B: Letter to German Parliament (In German) | |||
| Attachment C: Navigation Ticket Surcharge | |||
| Service List |
Emergency Petition submitted by U.S.T.A.R. in the matter of unfair and deceptive practices regarding fees and surcharges imposed on consumers by Lufthansa German Airlines, American Airlines, Continental Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Northwest Airlines, and United Airlines.
By: U.S.T.A.R., Bruce Bishins. 416.922.6332, bruce@ustar.com
1999 U.S.- Argentina Combination Service Case
| OST-9-6210 | January 24, 2000 | Re: Revised Exhibits |
U.S.- Argentina |
| Exhibit UA-N-1: Page 4 of 15 | |||
| Exhibit UA-301: Page 1 of 15 | |||
| Exhibit Exchange List |
This revision corrects an erroneous statement in the narrative of the growth rate used in United's traffic forecast. A correction is also made in the forecast for the second year. There is no change in the first year forecast itself.
Counsel: Kirkland Ellis, Jeffery Manley, 202.879.5161, jeffery_manley@kirkland.com
1999 U.S.- Brazil Combination Service Case/ Continental Airlines, Inc.
| OST-99-6284 OST-00-6759 |
January 24, 2000 | Motion for Leave to File and Response of Continental
Airlines to Surreply
|
U.S.- Brazil |
| Service List |
As demonstrated above, Delta's surreply contains inaccuracies which Continental must be permitted to correct on the record for this proceeding. This being so, Continental's motion for leave to file this response should be granted. For the foregoing reasons, Continental urges the Department to grant its motion for leave to file this response, to award Continental permanently all four of its frequencies placed at issue in this proceeding without further proceedings or, failing that, to award Continental four frequencies pendente lite to operate the New York/Newark and Houston-Brazil services it has proposed.
Counsel: Crowell Moring, Bruce Keiner, 202.624.2615, rbkeiner@cromor.com
| OST-99-6284 OST-00-6759 OST-99-6259 OST-98-3863 |
January 24, 2000 | Motion
for Leave to File and Rejoinder of Delta Air Lines |
U.S.- Brazil |
| Service List |
Delta cannot and will not accept a split award that places it at a severe competitive disadvantage against the daily serve patterns of United and every other major Brazil competitor serving New York-Sao Paulo. Furthermore, it would be a public interest travesty to require Delta to relinquish any of its three Atlanta-Rio de Janeiro frequencies to fund any more flights by United, whose permanent frequency allocation outnumbers Delta's by four-to-one. Continental's reversal of its position and sudden call to consolidate the frequencies into consideration in the 1999 Case is merely an effort to forestall the all but inevitable conclusion that those frequencies be permanently allocated to Delta.
Counsel: Shaw Pittman, Alexander Van der Bellen, 202.663.8060
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