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Last Updated 03/16/01 11:55 AM
Applications and Renewals:
C&L - Interstate Certificate | China Southern - Shenzen- Anchorage/Chicago Renewal | Williams/Young v Atlanta - Petition of Self-Evaluation
Guja - U.S.- Mexico | Northwest/Air China - U.S.- China | TWA - LAX-DCA
Answers and Replies:
Alaska Mail Rates (2)- Reply of ATS/Comments | American/Sabena - Additional Codeshare
American/Swissair - Additional Codeshare | CRS - Comments of the ACA | EAS at Adak - Request for Extension
Family Assistance Plans (2) | Salmon Air - Response to Information Request | Warsaw Agreement (2)
Notices of Action Taken:
American/Turkish | Continental (2) | Servicios Aereos | Turkish
Notices and Orders:
Great Lakes - Service Obligation | Midwest Express - Granting Request
American Airlines, Inc. and Sabena Belgian World Airlines, S.A.
| OST-99-5943 | March 15, 2001 | Notice of Additional Code-Sharing Services |
Blanket Statements of Authorization to Engage in
Reciprocal Code-Sharing Services |
| Service List |
Notice is hereby given that beginning no sooner than April 15, 2001 or within 15 days after all governmental authorities are received, whichever is later, Sabena will commence display of the "AA" designator code on flights operated by Sabena between Brussels and Chennai, India.
Counsel: Steptoe Johnson, William Karas, 202-429-6223
American Airlines, Inc. and Swissair, Swiss Air Transport Company Ltd.
| OST-99-5944 | March 17, 2001 | Notice of Additional Code-Sharing Services |
Blanket Statements of Authorization to Engage in Reciprocal Code-Sharing Services |
| Service List |
Swissair, Swissair Transport Company, Ltd. pursuant to condition (2) of Department Action OST-99-5944, hereby gives notice that beginning no sooner than April 15, 2001 or within 15 days after all governmental authorities are received, whichever is later, Swissair will commence display of the "AA” designator code on flights operated by Swissair between Zurich and Delhi and between Zurich and Mumbai, India.
Counsel: Steptoe Johnson, William Karas, 202-429-6223
American Airlines, Inc. and Turkish Airlines
| OST-00-7151 | Filed February 23, 2001 Date of Action March 14, 2001 |
Department
Action on Application |
U.S.- Turkey; Route Integration- Codeshare with Turkish Airlines |
By: Gerald Caolo
American Airlines, Inc. TWA Airlines LLC and Trans World Airlines, Inc.
| OST-01-9027 | Served March 15, 2001 | Notice |
Transfer of Certificate |
By: Randall Bennett
| OST-01-9181 | March 15, 2001 | Application
for Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity |
Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity - Interstate Scheduled Cargo, Passenger and Mail Transportation |
| Index of Exhibits | |||
| Exhibit A: Fitness Data | |||
| Exhibit B: Narrative History | |||
| Exhibit C: Aircraft Fleet | |||
| Exhibit D: Transportation Authority | |||
| Exhibit E: Affidavit of Citizenship | |||
| Exhibit F: Certificates of Incorporation | |||
| Exhibit G: Corporate Structure | |||
| Exhibit H: Financials | |||
| Exhibit I: Proposed Operations | |||
| Exhibit J: Verification | |||
| Exhibit K: Affidavit of John Pruhs |
By: C&L, John Pruhs, 907.235.4767
China Southern Airlines Company
| OST-00-7000 | March 15, 2001 | Application for Renewal of Exemption |
Shenzen- Anchorage/Chicago |
| Service List |
China Southern operates scheduled cargo service between Shenzhen, People's Republic of China with coterminal points of Anchorage and Chicago pursuant to exemption authority approved by the Department in a Notice of Action Taken dated March 20, 2000. China Southern is currently performing operations pursuant to its exemption authority.
China Southern also operates, pursuant to exemption authority, scheduled passenger and cargo service between Guangzhou and Los Angeles, and conducts code share operations with Delta Air Lines, Inc. pursuant to exemption authority granted by the Department in a Notice of Action Taken dated February 19, 1999, and renewed by Notice of Action Taken dated May 26, 2000.
Counsel: White Case, Anne Smith, 202-626-3651
Computer Reservations Systems (CRS) Regulations
| OST-01-9054 | March 15, 2001 | Comments of the Air
Carrier Association of America |
CRS Regulations |
| Service List |
Since the day that the Department first implemented the CRS rules, airline concentration and consolidation has increased significantly. The nation's six largest carriers control approximately 84 percent of overall domestic market share while new entrants control less than two percent of that market share. The latest merger proposals involving American, TWA, United and US Airways would result in levels of concentration never contemplated. At many major hub airports, the dominant carrier controls 80 to 90 percent of the airport's passengers. As the Department has acknowledged, new entrants have been driven out of markets by behavior directed at them by incumbent carriers, which have various anti-competitive tools available to them. New entrants face new levels of anti-competitive behavior and growing barriers to entry. Last year due in substantial part to these problems, several new entrant carriers ceased operations.
Why is the Department aiding a carrier that controls 90 percent of the traffic at a major hub, has corporate deals with most major companies in the community that require the company to purchase most if not all the company's travel needs from the dominant hub carrier, and is prepared to adjust fares and flight frequencies to combat new entry? By failing to suspend this section, the Department has allowed a regulation to stay in place that allows dominant hub carriers to engage in well-documented anti-competitive missions. It is time to put that to an end. There is no legitimate reason for this provision to remain in place.
Therefore, ACAA requests that the Department immediately suspend 14 CFR § 255.10(a). The need to level the playing field has never been greater. By taking this small step, the Department will eliminate one of the road blocks to the expansion of competition. The Department should not put this action off for one more day. Too much is at stake.
By: Air Carrier Association of America, Edward Faberman, 202.639.7502
| OST-97-2447 | Filed February 23, 2001 Issued March 15, 2001 |
Notice
of Action Taken |
U.S.- Ecuador Frequencies |
By: Paul Gretch
| OST-97-2347 | Filed February 23, 2001 Issued March 15, 2001 |
Notice
of Action Taken |
Integration of Route Authority |
Integrate its existing authority to provide scheduled foreign air transportation of persons, property, and mail under its certificates of public convenience and necessity for Routes 29-F, 59, 82-F, 110, 157, t65, 176, 381, 383, 482, 509, 561, 629, and 659 and under its currently held exemptions, so as to permit foreign air transportation services involving any points named on the above certificates and exemptions.
By: Paul Gretch
Essential Air Service at Adak, Alaska
| OST-00-8556 | March 15, 2001 | Request of Evergreen Helicopters for Extension to Submit EAS Proposal |
Essential Air Service at Adak, Alaska |
Evergreen Helicopters of'Alaska, Inc., intends to submit an application to provide essential air service (EAS) at Adak, Alaska. Evergreen inadvertently was unable to submit its application within the 20-day period after the service date of the DOT order requesting proposals. Evergreen hereby requests an extension to March 23, 2001, to submit its EAS proposal.
Counsel: Evergreen International Aviation, Thomas Lydon
Emery Worldwide Airlines, Inc.
| OST-99-5415 | March 15, 2001 | Request
for Expedited Action |
Dayton - Monterrey |
Counsel: Crowell Moring, Lorraine Halloway, 202.624.2538
| OST-96-1960 | March 15, 2001 | Family Assistance Plan of C&L, Inc. d/b/a Homer Air |
Aviation Disaster Family Assistance Act |
By: C&L, John Pruhs, 907.235.4767
| OST-98-3305 | March 15, 2001 | C&L,
Inc. d/b/a Homer Air: Passenger Manifest
Information |
Airline Passenger Manifest Information Required to be Filed Under 14 CFR Part 243 |
By: C&L, John Pruhs, 907.235.4767
GASP of Miami, Inc., Billy J. Williams and Patricia Young v. City of Atlanta, Georgia
| OST-01-9184 | March 15, 2001 | Petition to Compel the City of Atlanta to Perform a
Self-Evaluation |
Disabilities Cause by Environmental Tobacco Smoke |
| Attachment: Letters, Notices, Information Describing Disabilities |
Petitioner Williams was aware that a Budweiser Brewhouse & Smoking Lounge restaurant at another airport had claimed that its facilities were so well ventilated that a non-smoker could use its non-smoking area with absolutely no adverse reactions. Therefore, Petitioner visited the Budweiser Brewhouse & Smoking Lounge restaurant at the Atlanta/Harts field Airport. Petitioner Williams went up the escalator and was unable to enter the restaurant because of the environmental tobacco smoke coming out the restaurant door.
Counsel: GASP, Billy William and Patricia Young
| Order 01-3-18 OST-00-8321 |
Issued March 19, 2001 Served March 19, 2001 |
Order Extending
Service Obligation |
90-Day Notice to Terminate Service at Yankton, South Dakota |
By: Randall Bennett
| OST-97-2091 | March 15, 2001 | Application for Renewal of Exemption |
U.S.- Mexico Charter Air Transportation |
| Service List |
Counsel: Roller Bauer, Lee Bauer, 202.331.3300, airlaw@rollerbauer.com
Intra-Alaska Class Service Mail Rates
| OST-95-405 | March 14, 2001 | Reply
of ATS (Arctic Transportation Services) |
Order to Show Cause Establishing Final Bush Service Mail Rates |
By: Arctic Transportation Services, John Eckels
| OST-95-429 | March 15, 2001 | Comments
of Village Aviation d/b/a Camai
Air |
Order to Show Cause Establishing Final Bush Service Mail Rates |
By: Village Aviation, Don King
Midwest Express Airlines, Inc.
| Order 01-3-17 OST-00-7189 |
Issued March 15, 2001 Served March 15, 2001 |
Order Granting
Request |
Exemption/Slots - Kansas City, MO- Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport |
By Order 2000-7-20, issued July 14, 2000, the Department granted the application of Midwest Express for an exemption to permit it to reassign one DCA slot from the 2100 hour to the 0700 hour in order to permit it to offer daily Kansas City-Washington (DCA) service with Stage 3 MD-80 aircraft. By letter to the Federal Aviation Administration dated September 21, 2000, Midwest Express requested that it be permitted to reassign the 0700 hour slot operation permitted by Order 2000-7-20 from the 0700 hour to the 1000 hour for the period November 1, 2000, through March 31, 2001. By Order 2000-10-27, the Department granted the Midwest Express request.
By a subsequent letter to the Department. dated February 1, 2001, Midwest Express requests that this 1000 slot operation now be permanently reassigned to the 1100 hour. Midwest Express's code-share partner, Air Midwest, serves a number of rural communities with flights into Kansas City that currently arrive in Kansas City after Midwest Express' flight to DCA has already departed. Moving the Kansas City to DCA flight about an hour later will enable these passengers to connect to Midwest Express's nonstop flight to DCA.
We again find that grant of the Midwest Express request meets all five criteria. The only potential criterion that could jeopardize Midwest Express's request is the two operations per hour criterion (number 3, above). The other four criteria are unchanged from when we approved Midwest Express's application by Order 2000-7-20. In this regard we have reviewed our past actions granting exemptions for the reassignment of Reagan National slots pursuant to 49 U.S.C. §41714(d), and we have found that there have been no exemptions granted for the reassignment of slot exemptions during the 1100 hour period.
By: Susan McDermott
Mountain Bird, Inc. d/b/a Salmon Air
| OST-00-8059 | March 15, 2001 | Response to
Information Request |
Scheduled Commuter Passenger Operations |
By: Salmon, JoAnn Wolters, 208.756.6211
Northwest Airlines, Inc. and Air China International Corp.
| OST-01-9183 | March 15, 2001 | Joint Application for
Exemption and a Statement of Authorization |
U.S.- China |
| Service List |
An exemption to Northwest under 49 U.S.C. § 40109(c) to permit Northwest to engage in foreign scheduled air transportation of persons, property, and mail between Changchun, Dalian, Harbin, Zengzhou, Wuhan, Chongqing, Shenzhen, Fuzhou, and Guilin, on the one hand, and points in the United States, on the other hand, under a code-share arrangement with Air China; and
A Statement of authorization to Air China under 14 C.F.R. § 212.9 authorizing Air China to display Northwest's "NW' designator code on Air China's flights between Changchun, Dalian, Harbin, Zengzhou, Wuhan, Chongqing, Shenzhen, Fuzhou, and Guilin, on the one hand, and Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, on the other hand, in connection with air transportation of persons, property and mail between the United States and China under a code-share arrangement with Northwest.
Air China currently has authorization to display Northwest's designator code on Air China's (a) scheduled combination flights between Chengdu, Nanjing, Qingdao, Shenyang, Xiamen, and Man, on the one hand, and Beijing and Shanghai, on the other hand, (b) between Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou in connection with Northwest's U.S. service, (c) scheduled all-cargo flights (mail only) between Beijing and Shanghai, on the one hand, and New York (JFK) and Chicago (ORD), on the other hand, and (d) scheduled combination flights between Beijing and Shanghai, on the one hand, and San Francisco and Los Angeles, on the other hand.
Counsel: Northwest, Megan Rae Rosia, 202-842-3193, megan.rosia@nwa.com
Servicios Aereos del Centro, S.A. de C.V.
| OST-96-1673 | Filed February 27, 2001 Issued March 15, 2001 |
Notice of Action Taken |
U.S.- Mexico |
By: Paul Gretch
Turkish Airlines (Turk Hava Yollari, A.O.)
| OST-00-7154 | Filed February 23, 2001 Issued March 14, 2001 |
Notice
of Action Taken |
U.S.- Turkey Code-Sharing with American Airlines |
By: Paul Gretch
| OST-01-9185 | March 15, 2001 | Application Exemption |
Pendente Lite Beyond- Perimeter LAX- DCA |
| Service List |
Over the past several weeks, a number of carriers have applied in OST-00-7181, or expressed interest in applying, to replace TWA in using these two exemption slots. American, Continental Airlines, Inc. and United Air Lines, Inc. have applied to operate nonstop service from DCA to Los Angeles; Delta Air Lines, Inc., to Salt Lake City; Frontier Airlines, Inc., to Denver; Alaska Airlines, Inc., to Seattle; and North-west Airlines, Inc., to an unnamed beyond-perimeter city.
The Department will be required to conduct a carrier -selection proceeding to choose a single successor to TWA among these many applicants. That proceeding has not yet been instituted, and is not likely to be concluded before the closing date of the American/TWA Airlines LLC/TWA transaction, which the parties are seeking to accomplish at the earliest possible time. As of the closing, TWA will cease to utilize its DCA-LAX exemption slots and, absent the relief sought here, nonstop service in this market would precipitously end.
In these circumstances, the public interest would best be served by granting pendente lite exemption authority to TWA Airlines LLC to continue operating daily nonstop flights in the DCA-LAX market until a successor to TWA is named in the carrier-selection proceeding.
If this service ends suddenly, consumers holding tickets and reservations would suffer the inconvenience of disrupted travel plans. Passengers booked for service after the closing occurs would be left without nonstop service between DCA and LAX. To the extent that they are re-booked, they would be required to use Dulles for nonstop service, and could only use DCA for one-stop service.
Counsel: American, Carl Nelson, 202.496.5647, carl_nelson@aa.com
Counterpart to Warsaw Agreement
| OST-95-236 | March 15, 2001 | Warsaw
Agreement of C&L, Inc. d/b/a
Homer Air |
Counterpart to Warsaw Agreement (Vols. 1 thru 11) |
By: C&L, John Pruhs, 907.235.4767
| OST-95-236 | March 15, 2001 | Warsaw Agreement of TWA
Airlines L.L.C |
Counterpart to Warsaw Agreement (Vols. 1 thru 11) |
By: TWA Airlines
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