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OST Docket Filings for February 28, 2008
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Federal Express - Form 41 Motion Answers and Replies: Air Choice One - DOT Request for Additional Information - Missing Since September 28, 2007 Delta and China Southern - Polling Results (US-China Codesharing) EAS at Manistee/Ludington and Ironwood, MI and Ashland, WI - Withdrawal of Motion for Extension of Proposal Time of Pacific Wings / Proposal of Great Lakes IATA - Update on Motion for Partial Temporary Stay of Final Order (Passenger and Cargo Composite) Notices of Action Taken: LIAT - Puerto Rico and St. Vincent - Port-of-Spain - Dominicana Renewal Notices and Orders: Multi-Aero d/b/a Air Choice One - Issuing Effective Commuter Authority Termination of Multiple Dockets US Airways - Consent Order |
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Delta Air Lines, Inc. and China Southern Airlines Company Limited OST-1997-2653 - Delta - US-China Codeshare with China Southern (Los Angeles-Guangzhou) February 28, 2008 We have polled the U.S. carrier representatives served with the above-referenced Joint Application dated February 25, 2008, and no carrier representative has objected to the relief sought therein. Accordingly, Delta Air Lines, Inc. and China Southern Airlines Company Limited respectfully urge that the requested authority be granted as soon as possible. Counsel: Hogan & Hartson, Jonathan Echmalian, 2002-637-5439, jechmanlian@hhlaw.com Essential Air Service at Manistee/Ludington and Ironwood, Michigan and Ashland, Wisconsin OST-1996-1266 - Ironwood, MI/Ashland, WI
February 27, 2008 Withdrawal of Motion for Extension of Time to Submit Proposals of Pacific Wings Pacific Wings Airlines, Ltd., by its counsel, hereby withdraws its motion to extend time to submit proposals in these proceedings. Pacific Wings understands that notwithstanding the urgent pleas from Midwest Connect to Pacific Wings to take its place and serve these Essential Air Service communities, Midwest Connect simultaneously was soliciting one or more other carriers, at least one of whom will submit a proposal. Pacific Wings apologizes to the Department for wasting its time. Counsel: Patton Boggs, Gregory Walden, 202-457-6135, gwalden@pattonboggs.com
February 27, 2008 Proposal of Great Lakes Airlines Great Lakes will provide service at these Essential Air Service points in a similar fashion as is offered in Denver and utilize our interline agreements with all the major carriers, which will enable connecting bag service through the Milwaukee hub. In addition, we will endeavor to obtain code-sharing arrangements with major carriers serving the Milwaukee market, to allow passengers in these EAS markets the seamless service, in which they are accustomed to, through Milwaukee to the destinations served by our partners and prospective partners. All proposals contemplate the use of 19 seat Beechcraft 1900D airliner equipment.
By: Great Lakes, Michael Matthews, 307-432-7000
OST-1997-2494 - Confidential Treatment, Form 41 Schedule B-7 February 25, 2008 Motion for Confidential Treatment Pursuant to Rule 12 Counsel: FedEx, Bailey Leopard, 901-434-6664 International Air Transport Association Tariff Conference Proceeding February 28, 2008 Re: Motion for Partial Temporary Stay of Final Order - Update This letter concerns lATA's Motion for Partial Temporary Stay of Final Order, filed in the above docket on 18 June 2007, which motion is now pending. This letter serves to update that motion. The Motion, at pp. 8-10, specifies dates (separately for four groups of activities) until which lATA requests a stay. Due to the passage of time since the Motion was filed, lATA has found it necessary to reschedule some of the activities contemplated by the Motion. Reflecting this rescheduling, lATA now requests that the 30 June 2007 effective date of ordering paragraph 1 of Order 2007-3-23 be stayed for the following limited times and purposes: Counsel: Wiley Rein, Bert Rein OST-1998-3771 - Exemption - Puerto Rico and St. Vincent - Port-of-Spain - Dominicana Filed January 30, 2008 | Issued February 28, 2008 Renew exemption under 49 USC §40109, issued January 31, 2007, to permit the applicant to engage in (1) scheduled foreign air transportation of persons, property and mail between (a) the coterminal points Antigua and Barbuda, Montserrat, and St. Kitts and Nevis; via the intermediate points Anguilla, the British Virgin Islands, and St. Maarten; and the coterminal points St. Croix, St. Thomas, and San Juan, Puerto Rico; and beyond to Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic; (b) the coterminal points Antigua and Barbuda, and St. Kitts and Nevis, via the intermediate points St. Maarten and St. Lucia; and the terminal point Miami, Florida; (c) San Juan and St. Vincent, and beyond to Port of Spain, Trinidad; and (d) San Juan and Dominica; and (2) charter foreign air transportation of persons, property and mail pursuant to 14 CFR Part 212 of the Department’s regulations. LIAT asks that this authority be renewed for a period of two years. LIAT sought authority for a two-year period. The one-year duration of the authority we granted is consistent with our usual policy of granting exemption authority in the circumstances presented. We, therefore, dismissed the application to the extent that it sought authority for a longer period. By: Paul Gretch Multi-Aero, Inc. d/b/a Air Choice One
OST-2002-12417 - Scheduled Passenger Operations as a Commuter Air Carrier September 28, 2007 Re: Request for Additional Information This review has revealed the need for additional and/or clarifying information before we can complete processing of Multi-Aero's application.
By: Air Carrier Fitness Division, Ronale Taylor
Order 2008-2-32 Issued and Served February 27, 2008 Order Issuing Effective Authority On February 21, 2008, Multi-Aero filed updated fitness information, including third-party verification of its available funding, evidence of its appropriate liability insurance, and a copy of its Air Carrier Certificate and Operations Specifications from the FAA. The company also provided a statement confirming that it had not undergone any changes in its ownership, management, operations, financial posture, and compliance disposition since the Department issued its Show Cause Order on January 8, 2008. Our review of these documents was satisfactory. Under these circumstances, we conclude that there was no reason not to make Multi-Aero’s authority effective. By this order, we reissue to Multi-Aero its commuter air carrier authorization to reflect its effective date. By: Todd Homan Docket 43430 - Trans World Airlines - Certificate Authority Issued February 28, 2008 | Served March 4, 2008 The Department has identified the following proceedings as moot, inactive, or pending Departmental action on the applicant’s request for withdrawal or dismissal. It is in the public interest for administrative management reasons to terminate the proceedings and close the corresponding dockets, and we will do so under authority assigned by the Department in its Regulations, 14 CFR §385.3 and §385.13. By: Paul Gretch Order 2008-2-35 Issued and Served February 28, 2008 This consent order concerns the display of inaccurate and misleading information on the US Airways website regarding fares for infants traveling on a parent’s lap. The inaccurate display of fare information constitutes an unfair and deceptive trade practice and unfair method of competition in violation of 49 U.S.C. § 41712 and violates the full-fare advertising requirements of 14 CFR 399.84. This order directs the carrier to cease and desist from similar conduct in the future and assesses a compromise civil penalty of $100,000 under 49 U.S.C. § 46301. During a period beginning in mid-2006, soon after the merger of US Airways and America West, consumers attempting to book reservations for lap infants on international flights understood from the carrier’s website that infants could travel at no charge. When consumers who had booked reservations on the USAirways website arrived at the terminal, however, the carrier’s ticket agents informed passengers that there were in fact charges for lap infants that typically included ten percent of the adult fare, taxes and surcharges and that the display of a “zero charge” on the web fare calculator was erroneous. US Airways advises that it became aware in the fall of 2006 of the erroneous display of international lap infant fares and sought to modify the site to provide an accurate fare calculator, but, according to the carrier, in view of other website priorities, the modification will not be fully installed until later this year. Initially, the concern on the part of the carrier was to provide a unified website, combining features of both the America West and the US Airways sites, but difficulties in integrating the two systems led to errors such as the one involving lap infant fares. In the interim, the carrier inserted a mandatory screen alerting consumers to the fact that additional charges applied to the transport of infants, including taxes and a fee of approximately 10 percent of the fare of the accompanying adult. The notice, however, did not advise consumers that the full fuel surcharge, equal to that charged adult passengers, applied to lap infants, nor was it clear whether a fee applied to the issuance of a paper ticket required of lap infants. A second interim fix was put in place in early 2007 which gave the fare of the adult passenger, then noted that the infant fare was “to be determined,” in addition to the mandatory page noted above. Later, the carrier states that it stopped accepting international reservations on its website for lap infants and their accompanying adults. The current page instructs consumers to make such reservations by contacting the carrier’s telephone reservations network. By: Rosalind Knapp |
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