OST Filings for April , 2000

OST Docket Filings for April 3, 2000

Last Updated 04/04/00 08:26 AM

Applications and Renewals:

Aerolitoral/Aeromexico - Intra-Mexico Code-Share | Shuttle America - New York Airports | Tie Aviation - U.S.- Canada

Answers and Replies:

American/TACA - Motion/Answer of Delta

Notices of Action Taken:

United

Notices and Orders:

IATA | U.S.- Columbia Service Case

Form 41's:

American | American Eagle

Aerolitoral, S.A. de C.V. and Aerovias de Mexico, S.A. de C.V.

OST-00-7185	April 3, 2000	Joint Application for Code-Share Statement of Authorization Scanned Copy	Intra-Mexico Code-Sharing
		Service List

Statement of Authorization authorizing Aerolitoral to carry the code of Aeromexico on all Aerolitoral flights within Mexico in conjunction with Aeromexico's service between Mexico and the U. S. Joint Applicants request that the statement of authorization be of indefinite duration.

Counsel: Verner Liipfert, William Evans, 202.371.6030

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American Airlines, Inc.

OST-96-1203

March 31, 2000
Docketed April 3, 2000

Motion for Confidential Treatment

Form 41; Schedule B-7

Counsel: American, Carl Nelson, 202-496-5647, carl_nelson@amrcorp.com

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American Airlines, Inc. et al., and The TACA Group Reciprocal Code-Share Services Proceeding

OST-96-1700 OST-00-7088	April 3, 2000	Motion of Delta Air Lines Scanned Copy	U.S.- Central American
		Service List

Hereby moves the Department to require American Airlines, Inc. and the TACA Group to produce additional documents and information that are vital to the Department’s ability to make an informed decision, and for interested parties to comment, on the above -captioned applications for antitrust immunity and the renewal and expansion of American/TACA codeshare authority.

Counsel: Shaw Pittman, Robert Cohn, 202.663.8060

OST-96-1700	April 3, 2000	Answer of Delta Air Lines Scanned Copy	U.S.- Central American
		Service List

American and TACA’s "renewal" application seeks to eliminate substantially all of the necessary competitive safeguards that the Department insisted upon to try and mitigate the anticompetitive effects of this unhealthy codeshare arrangement. Moreover, the Department specifically stated that TACA's failure to enter into a competitive codeshare agreement with another U.S. airline – which TACA has not done -- would be considered a negative factor in deciding whether the American/TACA arrangement should be renewed.

Counsel: Shaw Pittman, Robert Cohn, 202.663.8060

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American Eagle Airlines, Inc.

OST-95-569

March 31, 2000
Docketed April 3, 2000

Motion for Confidential Treatment

Form 41; Schedule B-7

Counsel: American, Carl Nelson, 202-496-5647, carl_nelson@amrcorp.com

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Shuttle America Corporation

OST-00-7172	April 3, 2000	Application for Exemption HTML	New York Airports
		Service List

Hanscom Field is a nonhub airport. It was without commercial service until September 1999, when Shuttle America launched four daily nonstop flights to Trenton, New Jersey. The market area includes the booming high-tech corridor along Route 128 and a growing residential population in excess of one million people. Since then, the market has grown to ten daily departures with nonstops to Trenton, Buffalo and direct service to Greensboro, North Carolina. Service to New York's LaGuardia Airport is the number one requested market from existing Shuttle America customers, whose access to Boston's Logan airport has been made difficult, expensive and time-consuming by growing traffic congestion, constricted parking and legendary "Big Dig" delays in conjunction with highway/airport construction.

Shuttle America projects that the slot exemptions would provide service for 150 passengers per day each way which would amount to approximately 45,000 passengers annually, given weekend service reductions. For Hanscom Field, these flights are the first nonstops to LaGuardia and provide convenient access to the New York market, a valuable service to the traveling public.

Counsel: Shuttle America, Stephan Lachter, 202.862.4321

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Tie Aviation, Inc. d/b/a Trans International Express

OST-00-7168	March 31, 2000	Application for Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity	Foreign Charter Air Transportation
		Table of Contents
		Exhibits 1-3: Identification of Applicant, Certificate of Good Standing, Citizenship Affidavit
		Exhibit 4: Key Management Personnel
		Exhibit 5: Key Personnel Affidavits
		Exhibits 6-16: Ownership, Financial Information, Fleet, Accidents, Charges, History
		Exhibits 17-21: Proposed Operations, Family Assistance Plan, Insurance, Certification
		Service List

Application of Tie Aviation, Inc. d/b/a Trans International Express ("Tie") pursuant to 49 U.S.C Section 41102, Part 201 and Subpart Q, requests that the Department issue it a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity to authorize foreign charter air transportation of property and mail.

Counsel: Baker & Hostetler, David Kirstein, 202.861.1500

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United Air Lines, Inc.

OST-99-6600

Filed December 6, 1999
Issued April 3, 2000

Notice of Action Taken

U.S.- Cyprus

Scheduled foreign air transportation of persons, property, and mail between a point or points in the United States and a point or points in Cyprus, and to integrate this authority with its existing certificate and exemption authority. United intends to operate this service under code-share arrangements with its foreign code-share partners. Initially, United plans to place its designator code on Lufthansa's flights between Frankfurt and Larnaca, Cyprus.

By: Paul Gretch

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U.S.- Columbia Scheduled Combination Service Case

Served March 29, 2000

Notice

U.S.- Columbia

Specifically, with respect to scheduled combination services, the understanding and amendments provide that there will be no limitations on the number of airlines that may be authorized to serve the market. They further provide for an expansion in the number of flights U.S. carriers may operate over a three-year period . Specifically, effective March 15, 2000, U.S. carriers may operate an additional seven weekly frequencies. These frequencies cannot serve Miami or New York until October 1, 2001. Seven more frequencies become available on October 1, 2001, and on October 1, 2002, respectively, and may be operated in any authorized markets. U.S. carrier services may be operated, except as-noted, between any point or points in the United States and Barranquilla, Bogota, Cali, Cartagena, and Medellin, and beyond Colombia to points in the Western Hemisphere.

By this notice, we invite all U.S. carriers interested in using the seven weekly U.S.-Colombia frequencies available now to file certificate and/or frequency allocation applications by April 10, 2000. Answers to applications should be filed by April 17, 2000; replies should be filed by April 20, 2000. We intend to solicit applications for the frequencies available in 2001 and 2002 at a later date.

The delegations undertook to recommend that their governments adopt this understanding and these amendments. They further stated the intent of their respective aviation authorities to permit operations provided for in the understanding and amendments as of March 15, 2000, pending entry into force of the understanding and amendments through an Exchange of Notes.

American Airlines and Continental Airlines are the two U.S. carriers currently designated to provide scheduled combination services. These carriers collectively now operate 49 weekly frequencies in the market.

The rights of U.S. designated airlines to operate air services to, from, and beyond Medellin are not effective until October 1, 2002. The understanding and amendments in the March MOC also include new provisions for all-cargo services, charter services, and code-sharing operations. This notice addresses only the new scheduled combination service opportunities available.

By: DOT

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International Air Transport Association

OST-99-6553	Filed November 23, 1999	Approved March 27, 2000	Approval of Agreements
OST-00-6988	Filed February 25, 2000	Approved March 27, 2000
OST-00-7161	Filed March 29, 2000	Approved March 31, 2000

By: Paul Gretch

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