OST Filings for February 25, 2003

OST-03-14588	February 25, 2003	Application for an Exemption from Provisions	Canada - US All-Cargo Charter
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ALLCANADA requests exemption authority to engage in the charter air transportation of property and mail between any point or points in Canada and any point or points in the United States. Initial points intended to be served in the United States are various cargo hubs such as Louisville, Toledo and/or Dayton. Service will be property-carrying charter flights on a nightly basis, Monday through Friday, operated with B-727 aircraft in freighter configuration. Service will be nonstop from a point in Canada to a point in the United States.

ALLCANADA currently leases and operates one B-727 aircraft, CFACX, MSN 19500, registered in Canada. The Company intends to acquire up to five additional aircraft from the assets of Old Corp upon receiving all regulatory authorities. All aircraft will be used exclusively by ALLCANADA. None of the aircraft are, or will be, wet leased.

Counsel: Meyers & Alterman, Stephen Alterman, 202-293-1030

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C.A.L. Cargo Air Lines, Ltd.

OST-00-7252

Filed February 4, 2003
Issued February 25, 2003

Notice of Action Taken

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US-Israel All-Cargo Charter

Renew exemption from 49 U.S.C. 41301 to conduct scheduled foreign air transportation of property and mail between Tel Aviv, Israel, via the intermediate point Luxembourg (with a technical stop in Gander, Newfoundland), and the coterminal points New York, NY, and Chicago, IL; and all-cargo charters pursuant to 14 CFR 212 of the Department's regulations.

By: Paul Gretch

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China Eastern Airlines

OST-00-7480

Filed February 4, 2003
Issued February 25, 2003

Notice of Action Taken

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Beijing/Shanghai-Los Angeles-Boston/Miami Codeshare with American Airlines

Renew exemption from 49 U.S.C. 41301 to conduct scheduled foreign air transportation of persons, property and mail between Beijing/Shanghai, People's Republic of China, and Los Angeles, CA, and beyond Los Angeles to Boston, MA, and Miami, FL, pursuant to a code-share arrangement with American Airlines, Inc.

By: Paul Gretch

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Compania Mexicana de Aviacion, S.A. de C.V. and Aerovias de Mexico, S.A. de C.V. / Aerovias de Mexico, S.A. de C.V.

OST-03-14591	February 25, 2003	Joint Application for Exemption and Statement of Authorization	Statements of Authorization and Exemption - Mexico-US Codeshare
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Pursuant to the provisions of Title 49 of the United States Code, 14 C.F.R. 212 and Subpart C of the Department of Transportation's ("Department'") Rules of Practice, hereby request the following operating authorities:

an exemption from 49 U.S.C. 41301 permitting Aeromexico to transport persons, property and mail in scheduled foreign air transportation between Guadalajara, Mexico, and Oakland, California, pursuant to a codeshare arrangement with Mexicana;
a statement of authorization under 14 C.F.R. 212 permitting Aeromexico to display Mexicana's two-letter designator code on Aeromexico's scheduled flights operated between (a) Guadalajara, Mexico, and Ontario, California, and (b) Leon/El Bajio, Mexico, and Los Angeles, California;
and a statement of authorization under 14 C.F.R. 212 permitting Mexicana to display Aeromexico's two-letter designator code on Mexicana's scheduled flights operated between Guadalajara, Mexico, and Oakland, California.

Mexicana requests a statement of authorization permitting Mexicana to display Aeromexico's two-letter "AM" code on flights operated by Mexicana between Guadalajara, Mexico and Oakland, California. Aeromexico requests an exemption permitting it 'to operate scheduled service between Guadalajara and Oakland pursuant to its codeshare arrangement with Mexicana, as well as a statement of authorization permitting it to display Mexicana's two-letter "MX" code on flights operated by Aeromexico in the Guadalajara-Ontario and Leon/El Bajio-Los Angeles markets.

Counsel: Squire Sanders, Robert Papkin, 202-626-6840 for Mexicana / Piper Rudnick, William Evans, 202-371-6030 for Aeromexico

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Delta Air Transport N.V. d/b/a SN Brussels Airlines

OST-03-14337

February 25, 2003

Supplement to Application

Foreign Air Carrier Permit - Belgium-US

Hereby submits this Supplement to its Application for an initial foreign air carrier permit to provide foreign air transportation of persons, property and mail between a point or points behind Belgium, via Belgium and intermediate points, to a point or points in the United States and beyond

This Supplement consists of a copy of Form 4523 signed by SN Brussels. All information provided in SN Brussels' Application for an initial air carrier permit, submitted on January 22, 2003, is hereby incorporated by reference.

Counsel: Counsel: Condon Forsyth, Thomas Whalen, 202 289-0500

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Essential Air Service at Oshkosh, Wisconsin

Order 03-02-20
OST-99-5712

Issued February 25, 2003
Served February 28, 2003

Final Order Terminating Subsidy

Essential Air Service at Oshkosh, Wisconsin - Termination of Subsidy

After carefully considering the objections we have received from and on behalf of the Oshkosh community, we have decided to affirm our tentative decision to terminate Oshkosh’s subsidy eligibility, as both Great Lakes and Mesa’s proposals would require subsidy well above the $200 per passenger cap.

By: Read C. Van de Water

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Essential Air Service at Texarkana, Arkansas

Order 03-02-19
OST-03-14264

Issued February 25, 2003
Served February 28, 2003

Order Allowing Suspension of Service and Granting Exemption Request

Texarkana, AR-Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX

ASA currently operates four daily nonstop round trips to Dallas/Ft. Worth, three with 30-seat Embraer EMB-120 Brasilia aircraft and one with a Canadair Regional Jet. Texarkana also receives unsubsidized service by American Eagle Airlines, Inc., which operates three daily nonstop round trips to Dallas/Ft. Worth with 34-seat Saab SF 340 aircraft.

We will allow ASA to suspend service at Texarkana after April 30, as it intends. American Eagle will continue to provide the community with a link to the national air transportation network. As noted earlier, American Eagle operates three daily nonstop round trips to Dallas/Ft. Worth with 34-seat Saabs -- a total of 102 inbound and outbound seats a day. That level of capacity easily meets Texarkana's guarantee of 67 inbound and outbound seats a day, which represents the maximum seating guarantee under the essential air service program. Consequently, Texarkana's remaining service will remain above the level that the program was designed to maintain.

By: Read C. Van de Water

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International Air Transport Association

OST-03-14480

February 24, 2003

Reply of National Industrial Transportation League

Pricing Agreement

The National Industrial Transportation League hereby files this letter in support of the requests for a 90-day extension of the date for submitting comments in response to the Application for Approval of Agreements filed by the International Air Transport Association on February 7, 2003. In its lengthy proposal, IATA seeks to modify Resolution 502 by imposing a new density standard to be applied to air cargo considered to have a low density. The proposal is not without controversy as it could impose significant change and costs on air freight shippers. Accordingly, the League submits that the normal 21-day comment period is inadequate and will not provide the transportation community with sufficient time to analyze IATA's extensive application, determine its impact, and prepare appropriate comments.

Counsel: Karyn Booth

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JetConnection BusinessFlight A.G.

OST-02-11906

Filed March 21, 2002
Issued February 25, 2003

Notice of Action Taken

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Germany-US Executive Charters

Exemption from 49 USC section 41301 to permit the applicant to conduct, using small equipment (see below), charter operations, carrying persons, property and mail, as follows: between any point or points in Germany and any point or points in the United States; and between any point or points in the United States and any point or points in a third country or countries, provided that, except with respect to cargo charters, such service constitutes part of a continuous operation, with or without change of aircraft, that includes service to Germany for the purpose of carrying local traffic between Germany and the United States; and other charter operations pursuant to 14 CFR Part 212.

By: Paul Gretch

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M & N Aviation, Inc.

Order 03-02-18
OST-02-12358

Issued February 24, 2003
Served February 25, 2003

Order Issuing Effective Authority

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Puerto Rico Commuter Air Carrier Authority

By this order, we reissue the commuter air carrier authorization issued to M&N Aviation, Inc., to reflect its effective date.

By: Randall Bennett

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Mid-Atlantic Freight, Inc.

OST-02-14145	February 21, 2003	Re: Response to Information Request	Application for Authority to Conduct Scheduled Passenger Operations as a Commuter Air Carrier
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This letter is in response to your letter of February 3, 2003 and your e-mail of February 4, 2003 requesting additional and/or clarifying information regarding our application requesting authority to provide scheduled passenger service as a commuter air carrier.

At Pine Island airport (7NC2), we plan to use personnel from the Sanderling Inn to handle passengers there. All ticketing will be accomplished through an agreement with the Sanderling Inn. This service is provided by the Inn at no charge to help promote the use of the Inn. MAF will be leasing the aircraft from Atlantic Aero. The lease will specify that all revenue MAF receives from the airline operation will be paid to Atlantic Aero.

The basis for our belief that the market will produce a 40.0% to 50.0% load factor (four passengers per leg average) is based on a number of factors. One of our shareholders has been involved with significant Outer Banks property ownership and development for more that thirty years. Over that period, we have seen tremendous development of that area with increased land traffic congestion, especially for those traveling from the Norfolk area. It is the consensus of airport operators in the area and State of North Carolina Aviation officials that, based on the significant growth of the area, a commuter operation using the Cessna Caravan would have a high probability of success.

Counsel: Don Godwin, 336 668-7474

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Victory Air Transport, Inc.

OST-02-14027

February 25, 2003

Re: Response to Information Request

Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity - Interstate Charter Passenger, Property and Mail

As explained in its application and Exhibit VAT-6, Victory's operations will be limited to on-demand, single entity charter service with executive-configured Boeing 737 aircraft. These unique, Part 135 operations are substantially different and much more limited than the operations conducted by typical charter air carriers and will not require the same amount or type of infrastructure required for charter air carriers operating under Part 121. Victory believes that the services and infrastructure currently maintained by DDL (including, without limitation, personnel and facilities to be provided by DDL to Victory as described in the Application) will provide an ample basis for the limited operations Victory plans to conduct.

Counsel: Crowell Moring, Lorraine Halloway, 202 624-2500

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