Office of International Aviation Filings for March 18, 1998

Applications for Statement of Authorization and Wet Lease:

PrivatAir

Answers and Replies:

Mexicana and Condor

Approvals, Dismissals and Suspensions:

Dassault

Dassault Falcon Service

Issue Date: March 18, 1998 | Termination Date: March 28, 1998

Foreign Aircraft Permit

Under assigned authority, effective March 18, 1998, and terminating March 28, 1998, permission is granted under 14 CFR Part 375 of the Department's regulations to Dassault Falcon Service to the extent necessary to permit it to conduct one passenger operation on behalf of Williams Grand Prix, with French-registered Falcon 900 aircraft, identification F-GIDE, over the routing Southampton, United Kingdom - Bangor, Maine (technical stop) Akron/Canton, Ohio - Manaus, Brazil (technical stop).- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Mexicana and Condor

March 18, 1998

Answer of American Airlines

American Airlines, Inc. hereby answers in opposition to the application submitted on March 9, 1998 by Condor Flugdienst GmbH for a statement of authorization under 14 CFR Part 212 to display the "MX" designator code of Mexicana de Aviacion S.A. de C.V. on Condor's Frankfurt-Tampa-Acapulco and Frankfurt-Tampa-Puerto Vallarta flights. Under this arrangement, Mexicana would be holding out service between Mexico and Tampa, Florida.

Condor's application should be denied. In view of the regrettable inability of the United States to reach an acceptable arrangement with Mexico for third and fourth freedom codesharing, it would be highly imprudent, and contrary to the public interest, to permit Mexicana to continue to expand its codeshare relationships between Mexico and U.S. points with third-country carriers.

The Cintra Group, the government-controlled parent of both Mexicana and Aeromexico, is the principal impediment to reaching an agreement with Mexico on codesharing, because of Cintra's desire to protect its two airlines from additional competition. The Department should recognize this fact, and decline to facilitate the expansion of codeshare relationships by Mexicana and Aeromexico, which would harm competition in light of the inability of American and Aero California to implement most of their codeshare arrangement due to Mexico's restrictive policy

Counsel: American, Carl Nelson, 202-496-5647

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PrivatAir

98-155 | March 18, 1998

Application for Foreign Aircraft Permit Under Part 375

London (Heathrow)-Teterboro for March 25, 1998 / Teterboro-London (Heathrow) for March 27, 1998 carrying 7 members of the Jordanian Royal Family using a Gulfstream IV

Service List

Counsel: Baker Hostetler, Joanne Young, 202-861-1532

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Brazil Cargo Charters July 1, 1996 - June 30, 1997 - as of June 24, 1997
Brazil Cargo Charters July 1, 1997 - June 30, 1998 - as of March 11, 1998
1996/1997 Japan Charter Ad Hocs - Oct. 1, 1996 - Sept. 30, 1997 as of June 9, 1997 - CMI and FedEx added 7/9
1997/1998 Japan Charter Ad Hocs - Oct. 1, 1997-Sept. 30, 1998 - as of March 12, 1998
Japan Charter Authorizations - Oct. 1, 1997 - Sept. 30, 1998 - as of November 10, 1997
Brazil Passenger Charters - April 1, 1997 - March 31, 1998 - as of March 11, 1998