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OST Docket Filings for January 24, 2008
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EAS at Arkansas Communites - Notice of Air Midwest to Terminate Service Answers and Replies: Air Italy - Family Assistance Plan - File Not Yet Available on FDMS Enhancing Airline Passenger Protections - Comments of ACI-NA IATA - TC31 North and Central Pacific Japan-North America, Caribbean Minutes Oversales and Denied Boarding Compensation - Comments of Philippine Airlines Notices of Action Taken: Private Air Charters - DOT Request for Additional Information (Commuter Authority) Republic Airlines - US-Canada Amendment Notices and Orders: Air Choice One - Final Order (Commuter Authority) Challenge-Air - Final Order (Exemption and Foreign Air Carrier Permit - Germany-US Charters) Colgan Air - Issuing Foreign Certificate Authority Lufthansa - Final Order (Foreign Air Carrier Permit - US-EU Open-Skies) Lynx Aviation d/b/a Frontier Airlines - Confirming Oral Action and Issuing Effective Certificate Metropix - Final Order (Foreign Air Carrier Permit - US-EU) vivaAerobus - Final Order (Foreign Air Carrier Permit - Mexico-Austin) |
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Aerolances Nacionales, S.A. de C.V. d/b/a vivaAerobus Order 2008-1-23 Issued November 27, 2007 | Served January 24, 2008 By Order 2007-11-3, issued November 3, 2007, we directed all interested persons to show cause why we should not make final our tentative findings and conclusions stated therein and award a foreign air carrier permit in the form attached to the Order and subject to the conditions attached thereto. We gave interested persons 21 days to file objections to the Order. We said that if no objections are filed, all further procedural steps shall be deemed waived, and the Department will enter an order (subject to Presidential review under 49 USC §41307) which will make final the findings and conclusions of the Order. No objections were received within the time period provided. By: Paul Gretch OST-1998-3304 - Family Assistance Plans January 18, 2008 Re: Family Assistance Plan - File Not Yet Available on FDMS By: Air Italy Challenge-Air Luftverkehrs GmbH Order 2008-1-21 Issued November 20, 2007 | Served January 24, 2008 By Order 2007-10-36, issued October 26, 2007, we directed all interested persons to show cause why we should not make final our tentative findings and conclusions stated therein and award a foreign air carrier permit in the form attached to the Order and subject to the conditions attached thereto. We gave interested persons 21 days to file objections to the Order. We said that if no objections were filed, all further procedural steps would be deemed waived, and the Department would enter an order (subject to Presidential review under 49 U.S.C. §41307) which would make final the findings and conclusions of the Order. No objections were received within the time period provided. By: Paul Gretch Order 2008-1-17 Issued November 26, 2007 | Served January 24, 2008 Order Issuing Foreign Certificate Authority | Word By Order 2007-11-22, issued November 26, 2007, we found Colgan Air, Inc. d/b/a United Express d/b/a US Airways Express d/b/a Continental Connection fit, willing, and able, to engage in interstate and foreign scheduled air transportation of persons, property, and mail. By that order, we issued a certificate of public convenience and necessity authorizing Colgan to engage in interstate scheduled air transportation. By this order, we are issuing a companion certificate to Colgan, authorizing it to engage in foreign scheduled air transportation between the United States and Canada. Instead of repeating our findings and conclusions in Order 2007-11-22, we incorporate them here by reference. By: Andrew Steinberg Order 2008-1-20 Issued November 20, 2007 | Served January 24, 2008 By Order 2007-10-37, issued October 26, 2007, we directed all interested persons to show cause why we should not make final our tentative findings and conclusions stated therein and award an amended foreign air carrier permit in the form attached to the Order and subject to the conditions attached thereto. We gave interested persons 21 days to file objections to the Order. We said that if no objections were filed, all further procedural steps would be deemed waived, and the Department would enter an order (subject to Presidential review under 49 U.S.C. §41307) which would make final the findings and conclusions of the Order. No objections were received within the time period provided. By: Paul Gretch Enhancing Airline Passenger Protections January 24, 2008 Comments of the Airports Council International - North America ACI-NA does not support the proposal that a flight arriving late more than “70 percent” would be defined as chronically late. It is very questionable that consumers would find this figure “reasonable”. While the Department states in the ANPRM, consumers have a right to expect that an air carrier can arrive at the promised time “in most cases”, consumers rightfully expect more accurate information. Therefore, ACI-NA proposes that to maintain consumer confidence the minimum threshold for a chronically delayed flight should be set no higher than 50 percent of the time. ACI-NA does not support the proposed minimum of 45 flight operations per calendar quarter (approximately four flights/week). We believe this level will exclude operations at many smaller airports, thus not providing passengers in these communities with the same protections as those who begin or end their travel in larger cities. We propose that the definition be revised to 12 flight operations per calendar quarter (one flight per week). ACI-NA wants to ensure that when defining a “covered carrier” the Department includes the operations of regional or feeder carriers that are affiliated with the major/national airlines that account “for at least 1% of domestic scheduled passenger revenue”. The reasons stated by the Department in its November 20, 2007, NPRM on “Oversales and Denied Boarding Compensation” for including aircraft with 30 to 60 seats are just as applicable here. To the passenger, the effects of delays are the same regardless of which certificate holder actually operates the aircraft. Additionally, given the fact that regional airlines now transport one out of every four domestic passengers and operate half of daily domestic flights, as well as provide the only scheduled service to approximately 70 percent of U.S. airports, it is critical that DOT include their operations in the final rule. By: ACI-NA, Greg Principato Essential Air Service at Harrison, Hot Springs, El Dorado/Camden, Jonesboro, Arkansas January 22, 2008 Notice of Air Midwest to Terminate Scheduled Service By Order 2007-1-7, January 9, 2007 Air Midwest was awarded a 24 month service agreement at an annual subsidy rate of $4,296,348 for a two year term commencing April 1, 2007 12 roundtrips per week on a routing Jonesboro-El Dorado-Dallas, 12 roundtrips per week in a routing Harrison-Hot Springs-Dallas and 6 roundtrips each week Harrison-Kansas City utilizing Beech 1900D aircraft. At present, Air Midwest is the sole provider of certificated scheduled air service at El Dorado, Jonesboro, Harrison and Hot Springs, Arkansas. Air Midwest is hereby providing public notice of its intent to terminate scheduled air service with the expiration of the 90-day notice as required. By: Tom Bacon, Mesa Air, 602-685-3565
International Air Transport Association January 23, 2008 TC31 North and Central Pacific Japan-North America, Caribbean Minutes. Counsel: IATA, Alban Sato Lynx Aviation, Inc. d/b/a Frontier Airlines Order 2008-1-19 Issued and Served January 24, 2008 Order Confirming Oral Action and Issuing Effective Certificate By this order, we (1) confirm our oral action of December 6, 2007, making the certificate of public convenience and necessity issued to Lynx Aviation, Inc. d/b/a Frontier Airlines, for interstate scheduled passenger air transportation effective on that date, and (2) reissue Lynx's interstate scheduled certificate to reflect its effective date. Based on the information submitted by Lynx, we determined that the air carrier continued to be fit to provide interstate scheduled air transportation and concluded that there was no reason not to make Lynx's authority effective. Under these circumstance, on December 6, 2007, we orally advised Lynx that we were making its interstate scheduled authority effective on that date. By this order, we confirm that action and reissue to Lynx its interstate scheduled certificate to reflect its effective date. By: Todd Homan Order 2008-1-22 Issued November 26, 2007 | Issued January 24, 2008 By Order 2007-11-1, issued November 1, 2007, we directed all interested persons to show cause why we should not make final our tentative findings and conclusions stated therein and award a foreign air carrier permit in the form attached to the Order and subject to the conditions attached thereto. We gave interested persons 21 days to file objections to the Order. We said that if no objections were filed, all further procedural steps would be deemed waived, and the Department would enter an order (subject to Presidential review under 49 U.S.C. §41307) which would make final the findings and conclusions of the Order. No objections were received within the time period provided. By: Paul Gretch Multi-Aero, Inc. d/b/a Air Choice One Order 2008-1-18 Issued and Served January 24, 2008 By Order 2008-1-2, issued January 8, 2008, we directed all interested persons to show cause why we should not make final our tentative findings and conclusions that Multi-Aero, Inc. d/b/a Air Choice One, an operating air taxi, is a citizen of the United States and is fit, willing, and able to resume scheduled passenger operations as a commuter air carrier, subject to conditions. Interested persons were given 14 calendar days to file objections to the order. No objections to the show-cause order were received. By: Michael Reynolds Oversales and Denied Boarding Compensation January 22, 2008 Comments of Philippine Airlines A proposal on a periodic adjustment of the limits every two years, we believe, would sufficiently protect the Interest of the passengers and the airlines provided both parties will be given the facility to comment and submit its position on the proposed adjustment. An immediate doubling of the amount to $400-800 is not in accord with the concept of periodic review. If there is really a need to increase the DBS rate, we can only support an incremental increase of 10% which is more in accord with the concept of periodic review. Counsel: Philippine Airlines, Salvador Alcuino, 632-556-2253 OST-2007-0073 - Interstate and Foreign Commuter Air Carrier Authority January 24, 2008 Re: DOT Request for Additional Information This review has revealed the need for additional and/or clarifying information before we can complete processing of PAC's application.
By: Aviation Analysis, Lauralyn Remo OST-2005-22506 - Exemption and Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity - US-Canada Filed January 11, 2008 | Issued January 24, 2008 Republic requests that the Department amend its exemption granted by Notice of Action Taken dated February 2, 2007, authorizing Republic to engage in scheduled foreign air transportation of persons, property, and mail between points in the United States and points in Canada, to remove all conditions that limit Republic’s authority to operations performed under a fee-for-service agreement with a major U.S. carrier. The carrier states that the Department recently amended its Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity to engage in interstate scheduled air transportation of persons, property, and mail, removing the condition that previously limited Republic’s scheduled passenger operations to those conducted under a fee-for-service agreement, or a similar agreement, with a major U.S. carrier (See Order 2007-11-27). With our action here, Republic is authorized to operate U.S.-Canada services on its own or under a code-share arrangement with other carriers. The exemption authority granted on February 2, 2007, as amended here, will expire February 2, 2009. By: Paul Gretch |
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