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Applications and Renewals: 

Cherokee - Bahamas - US All Cargo Charters - Equipment Upgrade

Mexicana - Codeshare with Aerocaribe

US Airways - Taiwan Codeshare with United

Answers and Replies: 

None

Notices of Action Taken:

American - Amended Statement of Authorization - Codeshare with Qantas

Islandsflug - Iceland-US Renewal

Kalitta - US-UK/Netherlands All Cargo

Polynesian Limited - Renewal

SATA Internacional - Portugal - US Charter Renewal

Volga-Dnepr - Los Angeles - Cape Canaveral

Notices and Orders:

EAS at Grand Island, NB - Order Prohibiting Termination of Service and Requesting Proposals

Form 41 Motions:

ASA | Delta | Federal Express

American Airlines, Inc.

By:  Sylvia Moore

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Atlantic Southeast Airlines, Inc.

Counsel: Shaw Pittman LLP, Robert Cohn, 202-663-8060

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Cherokee Air, LTD.

Pursuant to the terms of 49 U.S.C. 40109, 14 C.F.R. 302.400 et seq., and other Economic Regulations of the Department of Transportation, Cherokee Air, Ltd. hereby applies for an Exemption to the extent necessary to permit it to engage in charter foreign air transportation of property and mail between the Commonwealth of the Bahamas on the one hand, and points in Florida on the other hand using large aircraft.

Cherokee has recently decided to expand its existing Bahamas-U.S. passenger, small aircraft type charter operations to now include all-cargo, large aircraft charter operations using a DC-7F freighter which the company has recently acquired. To that end, Cherokee Air recently received a renewed/amended charter permit from the Bahamas Ministry of Transport & Aviation. See: Bahamas, MOT Charter Permit dated November 20, 2002, copy attached hereto at Exhibit CKA-101. A copy of Cherokee Air's Bahamas Dept of Civil Aviation Air Operator Certificate is also attached together with relevant pages of Cherokee Air's Bahamian Operations Specifications issued by the CAD  Further, the process of adding this DC-7B aircraft to Cherokee Air's FAA Part 129 Ops Specs held by the FAA's Miami International Field Office is well underway. Cherokee Air's POI is POI Jim Jelinski at the FAA's MIA-1170.

Counsel: Pierre Murphy, 202-822-8050

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Compania Mexicana de Aviacion, S.A. de C.V.

Mexicana requests authority from the Department to engage in scheduled combination foreign air transportation between Mexico City/Cancun/Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, and Austin, Texas. Mexicana will offer service only on a codeshare basis by placing its designator code on Aerocaribe's scheduled flights in these markets. Aerocaribe's application requesting underlying exemption authority to serve these markets was filed on January 28, 2003, and is pending in Docket OST-2003-14393. Codeshare service is planned to begin on March 1, 2003. Mexicana and Aerocaribe will observe the requirements of 14 C.F.R. 257 in offering codeshare service to the United States.

Mexicana expects to be shortly authorized and designated by the Mexican Government to provide codeshare service on the Mexico City/Cancun/Puerto Vallarta­Austin routes and understands the Mexican Government will provide its authorization and designation directly to the United States.

Counsel:  Squire Sanders, Robert Papkin, 202-626-6840

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Delta Air Lines, Inc.

Counsel: Shaw Pittman LLP, Robert Cohn, 202-663-8060

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Essential Air Service at Grand Island, Nebraska

By this order, the Department is (a) prohibiting Great Lakes Aviation, Ltd., from terminating its unsubsidized essential air service at Grand Island, Nebraska; (b) requiring the carrier to maintain service between the community and Denver, Colorado, for an initial 30-day period following the end of the notice period, through April 2, 2003; and (c) requesting proposals from air carriers interested in providing essential air service at Grand Island.

We will solicit proposals from carriers interested in providing replacement service at Grand Island. We note that Grand Island has averaged impressive levels of enplanements in past years, peaking at over 64 enplanements a day for calendar year 1993. During the community’s period of peak traffic, however, the carrier(s) serving the point offered service to as many as five different hubs—far more than current EAS program funding levels permit us to underwrite with subsidy support. However, we note that traffic at Grand Island has declined sharply to sixteen enplanements a day for the most recent annual period for which we have data. Therefore, we request proposal options that would provide the community with service to either of its designated hubs of Denver or Omaha consisting of at least two or three round trips a day, nonstop or one-stop, six days a week, with twin-engine, two-pilot, 15-passenger-seat or larger, pressurized aircraft. The proposals should offer at least enough daily seats to accommodate the most recent average daily enplanements at a 60-percent load factor. We will also entertain proposals to serve other hubs, such as Kansas City, Minneapolis, St. Louis, or Chicago, that provide access to the national air transportation system in order to give the Department and the community as broad an array of proposals as possible from which to choose. As always, we will formally solicit the community’s views on any service options we receive before making a long-term carrier selection decision.

By:  Read C. Van de Water

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Federal Express Corporation

Counsel: Melissa M. Paul, 901-434-8580

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Islandsflug, hf.

Relief requested: (1) Renew exemption from 49 U.S.C. 41301 to conduct charter foreign air transportation of persons, property and mail between any point or points in Iceland, via intermediate points, and any point or points in the United States, and beyond; and other charters pursuant to 14 CFR 212 of the Department's regulations; (2) Initial exemption from 49 U.S.C. 41301 to conduct charter foreign air transportation of property and mail between a point or points in the United States, and a point or points in a third country or countries; and waiver under 14 CFR 212.12 from the requirement of 14 CFR 212.9(b)(1) that Islandflug obtain prior approval before operating such Fifth Freedom all­cargo charters.

By: Paul Gretch

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Kallita Air, L.L.C.

Exemption for two years under 49 U.S.C. 40109 to provide the following service: Scheduled foreign air transportation of property and mail between points in the United States, on the one hand, and points in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, on the other. Kalitta requests that this authority be integrated with its existing authority, as well as with the authority being requested in its application in Docket OST-2002-13756.

Kalitta proposes to operate three weekly flights over a New York-East Midlands-Amsterdam­Chicago or New York routing and two weekly flights over a Chicago-East Midlands-Amsterdam-New York routing. Kalitta will load and offload only third and fourth freedom traffic at East Midland. U.S.­bound traffic from the U.K. will be transported over Amsterdam, and U.S.-Netherlands traffic over East Midland, on a blind sector basis.  Kalitta's application in Docket OST-2002-13756 is pending before the Department.

By: Paul Gretch

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Polynesian Limited

Relief requested: (1) Renew exemptions from 49 U.S.C. 41301 to conduct scheduled foreign air transportation of persons, property and mail between: (i) Apia, Samoa, and Pago Pago, American Samoa, and beyond to Rarotonga, Cook Islands, and Papeete, Tahiti (OST-95-791);  (ii) Apia and Honolulu, HI (OST 95-806); (iii) Apia and Los Angeles, CA (OST-96-1687); (iv) Maota, Samoa, and Pago Pago (OST-98-3631); (v) Honolulu and Auckland, New Zealand, via Apia (OST-2001-9313); and (2) Renew exemption from 49 U.S.C. 41301 to conduct charter foreign air transportation of persons, property and mail pursuant to 14 CFR 212 of the Department's regulations (OST-2002-11657).

We have advised Polynesian Limited that it cannot directly or indirectly hold out or provide online air transportation wholly between U.S. points. Furthermore, pursuant to advice from the Assistant General Counsel for Aviation and Enforcement Proceeding, Polynesian Limited, as was its predecessor, is subject to Consent Order 95-2-18

By: Paul Gretch

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SATA Internacional - Servicios e Transportes Aereos, S.A

Renew exemption from 49 U.S.C. § 41301 to engage in charter foreign air transportation of persons, property and mail between Portugal and the United States; and to perform other charters in accordance with Part 212 of the Department's rules.

By: Paul Gretch

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US Airways, Inc.

Pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 4010- and Subpart C of the Department's Rules of Practice (14 C.F.R. Part 302), US Airways, Inc. hereby applies for an exemption and, to the extent necessary, a designation in order to engage in scheduled foreign air transportation of persons, property, and mail from a point or point in the United States to a point or points in Taiwan.  US Airways plans to serve Taiwan from the Unites States pursuant to its code-share agreement with United Air Lines. US Airways requests expedited processing of this application so that it can begin marketing the codeshare services proposed herein as soon as possible.

US Airways plans to codeshare on scheduled United services between the United States and Taiwan, specifically on United's San Francisco - Taipei service.  US Airways may, in the future, codeshare on other U.S. - Taiwan services by United as opportunities present themselves.  Accordingly, US Airways seeks broad "all points" authority in order to obviate the need to file another application (requiring additional time and Department resources) in the future should additional U.S. - Taiwan codeshare services be warranted.

Counsel:  US Airways and O'Melveny Myers, Joel Burton, 202-383-5300

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Volga-Denpr J.S. Cargo Airline

Exemption pursuant to 49 U.S.C. section 40109(g) to permit it to operate one one-way cargo charter flight from Los Angeles, CA, to Cape Canaveral, FL, on/about February 13-24, 2003, using its AN-124 aircraft, to transport outsized cargo consisting of an AsiaSat4 communications satellite payload and associated equipment, on behalf of Boeing Satellite Systems, Inc. The applicant stated that, because of unanticipated delays in manufacturing and testing, Boeing required urgent delivery by air of the satellite in order to complete scheduled integration with the Lockheed Martin Atlas launch booster on which the satellite is to be launched and to complete the scheduled final system test phase. It also stated that the cargo is too large for transportation on U.S. carrier aircraft, and that surface transportation was not feasible because of the time involved and the delicate nature and high value of the cargo.

By: Read C. Van de Water

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