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OST Docket Filings for May 8, 2008
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EAS at Kingman and Prescott, AZ - Notice of Air Midwest to Terminate EAS USA 3000 - Pittsburgh/Columbus-Cancun / Philadelphia-Bermuda / US-Jamaica and Bahamas / Philadelphia-Puerto Vallarta; Cleveland-Puerto Vallarta; Hartford-Cancun Renewals Answers and Replies: Aloha Airlines and Aeko Kula d/b/a Aloha Air Cargo - Response of ALPA in Opposition to Shortened Answer Period EAS at Alamosa, CO - San Luis Valley Regional Airport in Support of Great Lakes EAS at Athens and Macon, GA - DOT Request for Community Comments EAS at Beckley, WV - DOT Requests for Community Comments EAS at Franklin/Oil City, PA - Franklin Area Chamber of Commerce in Support of Gulfstream EAS at Joplin, MO - Joplin Regional Airport Request for Reconsideration Notices of Action Taken: Jetport - Canada-US Cargo Charters Renewal Notices and Orders: 2009 US-China All-Cargo - Notice Shortening Answer Period Alitalia - Final Order (EU-US) Aloha Airlines and Aeko Kula d/b/a Aloha Air Cargo - Notice Shortening Answer Period (Transfer of Certificate) / Notice Providing Additional Time to File Answers Condor - Final Order (Germany-US) |
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2009 US-China All-Cargo Proceeding Served May 8, 2008 Notice Shortening Answer Period On May 7, 2008, Federal Express Corporation, Northwest Airlines, Inc., Polar Air Cargo, Inc. and United Parcel Service Co., collectively the incumbent carriers, submitted a late-filed petition for reconsideration of the evidence request accompanying instituting order, Order 2008-4-22, insofar as it directs the incumbent carriers to provide certain data. To avoid delay in the conduct of this proceeding, we will shorten the answer period by making answers to both the petition for reconsideration, and the accompanying motion, due Friday, May 9, 2008. We will stay the requirement to submit incumbent carrier data pending the Department's issuance of a decision on the petition. The May 9, 2008 submission date for new applications provided in Order 2008-4-22, remains unchanged, as prospective applicants would not have had the benefit of incumbent carrier data in preparing new applications in any event. By: Paul Gretch Alitalia Linee Aeree Italiane S.p.A. Order 2008-5-11 Issued May 7, 2008 | Served May 8, 2008 By Order 2007-10-30, issued October 25, 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 Aloha Airlines, Inc. and Aeko Kula, Inc. d/b/a Aloha Air Cargo OST-2008-0158 - Transfer of Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity
Served May 8, 2008 Notice Shortening Answer Period On May 6, 2008, Aloha Airlines, Inc. and Aeko Kula, Inc. d/b/a Aloha Air Cargo filed a joint application in Docket OST-2008-0158 requesting that the Department transfer the interstate scheduled certificate Concurrently, the Joint Applications filed a motion requesting that the Department shorten the answer period in this case to 12:00 p.m. on May 8, 2008,' to facilitate their request for expedited action in this matter and to enable the Joint Applicants to proceed with their commercial transaction. On May 8, 2008, the Joint Applicants advised the Department that there were no objections to shortening the answer period or the underlying applications. Under these circumstances, we have decided to grant the Joint Applicants' request for a shortened answer period in this case. Therefore, acting under authority assigned in 14 CFR 385.12, answers to the Joint Applicants request for a certificate transfer and a pendente lite exemption will now be due no later than 12:00 p.m. on May 9, 2008. By: Todd Homan
May 8, 2008 Notice Providing Additional Time to File Answers While the Department continues to believe that the public interest justifies a shortened answer period, in recognition of ALPA’s argument that that the time frame requested by the applicants is insufficient, we have decided to extend the period for answers by three additional days. Therefore, the Department now directs interested parties to file answers to the Joint Applicants’ request for a certificate transfer and a pendente lite exemption no later than 10:00 a.m. on May 12. By: Todd Homan
May 8, 2008 Response of Air Line Pilots Association in Opposition to Shortened Answer Period Air Line Pilots Association objects to the request of Aloha Airlines, Inc., and Aeko Kula, Inc., d/b/a Aloha Air Cargo to shorten the answer period to their certificate transfer and pendente lite exemption applications to 12:00 noon Eastern time May 8, 2008. The application raises multiple difficult issues being addressed in Aloha's U.S. Bankruptcy Court proceeding (In re Aloha Airgroup Inc. Case No., 08-00337, U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Hawaii). These issues include, but are not limited to, the calling back of Aloha pilots for its cargo operation out of seniority order in violation of Aloha's collective bargaining agreement with ALPA, and other violations of that agreement. In addition, ALPA requires further detail about the particular statements in the Applicants' papers that Aloha Air Cargo intends to employ certain Aloha pilots and aircraft to take an informed position on the merits. It is essential that all parties be given adequate time to review these facts, as well as the almost 60 pages of supporting documents, before responding to the pending applications. Counsel: ALPA, James Johnson, 202-797-4086
Order 2008-5-10 Issued May 7, 2008 | Served May 8, 2008 By Order 2007-10-31, issued October 25, 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 Essential Air Service at Athens and Macon, Georgia OST-2002-11348 - Athens May 8, 2008 DOT Request for Community Comments of:
My purpose in writing to you at this time is to request any final comments you might have on each carrier's proposals before we submit a recommendation. We request that you review each proposal and submit any comments you may have as soon as possible, but in no case later than May 28.
By: Dennis DeVay Essential Air Service at Alamosa, Colorado April 25, 2008 Re: San Luis Valley Regional Airport in Support of Great Lakes Aviation The SLV Regional Airport Board of Control requests your favorable consideration of Great Lakes Aviation, Ltd. By: SLV Regional Airport, Tim Gallagher, 719-589-4848 Essential Air Service at Beckley, West Virginia May 5, 2008 DOT Request for Community Comments of: My purpose in writing to you at this time is to give you an opportunity to submit any final comments you might have on the carriers' subsidy proposals. We request that you review this information as expeditiously as possible and submit any comments you may have as soon as possible, but in any case no later than May 26, 2008.
By: Dennis DeVany Essential Air Service at Franklin/Oil City, Pennsylvania May 2, 2008 Re: Franklin Area Chamber of Commerce in Support of Gulfstream International Airlines' Bid The past eleven months have taken a tremendous toll on the community and its air service as the current carrier has downsized its infrastructure in anticipation of leaving its East Coast EAS markets. We are very anxious to have Gulfstream service our region. We, The Franklin Area Chamber of Commerce enthusiastically endorse and support Gulfstream International Airline's bid, Option # 2 to provide are carrier to the Franklin/Oil City area through the Essential Air Service subsidy program. We understand fully that the goal of the EAS program is to provide a "safety net" level of service to connect the community with the Nation's air transport system. This bid and particularly option #2 would provide that safety net in a meaningful way by enhancing our ability to regain our travel market thereby minimizing future dependency upon the subsidy. Our region is continuing to attract businesses to the region that makes commercial air service an integral part of our economic development success. Viable air service is critical to this economic impact potential. Accordingly, Gulfstream International Airlines initiation of air service as soon as possible is critical to our economic development success, as well as attracting those individuals that travel extensively. Preferably under their Option # 2, Gulfstream International will provide the level of service we so desperately need. We appreciate your efforts and those of your department on behalf of the Franklin/Oil City, Venango County and the entire Oil Heritage Region served by the Venango Regional Airport, and recognize the additional workload that resulted from the present carrier's 90 day notification to discontinue service. Thank you for your persistent efforts on our behalf.By: Franklin Area Chamber of Commerce
Essential Air Service at Joplin, Missouri May 6, 2008 Re: Joplin Regional Airport Request for Reconsideration | Word The Joplin Regional Airport and community of Joplin, Missouri (the Joplin parties) are very disappointed with the Department decision in Order 2008-5-2 regarding Joplin Essential Air Service. We request re-consideration of Joplin’s preference for Northwest option 3, three round trips to Memphis for $2,102,568. By: Steve Stockam Essential Air Service at Kingman and Prescott, Arizona May 6, 2008 Notice of Air Midwest to Terminate EAS Air Midwest, Inc. respectfully serves notice upon the Department of Transportation, in accordance with 14 C.F.R. §323.3 and 14 C.F.R. §323.4, of its intent to discontinue scheduled subsidized Essential Air Service over Kingman-Prescott-Phoenix and Prescott-Kingman-Las Vegas effective August 4, 2008. The termination of service by Air Midwest will reduce air transportation at these two communities to a level below the essential air service determination set forth in Order 2007-6-10. At present. Air Midwest is the sole provider of certificated scheduled air service at Kingman and Prescott, Arizona. By: Mesa, Jeff Ryskamp
OST-2001-10006 - Exemption - Canada-US Cargo Charters Filed February 11, 2008 | Issued May 8, 2008 Renew exemption from 49 U.S.C. § 41301 to permit the applicant to continue to conduct, using small aircraft, charter operations carrying passengers and their accompanying baggage between: (1) Canada and the United States; (2) third countries and the United States, via Canada, that make a stopover in Canada for at least two consecutive nights; and (3) other charters to/from the United States in accordance with 14 CFR Part 212. By: Paul Gretch
OST-2002-14000 - Exemption - Pittsburgh/Columbus-Cancun May 7, 2008 Application for Renewal of Exemption Authority By Notice of Action Taken dated September 21, 2006, USA 3000 was granted renewal of its exemption authority for two years to conduct scheduled foreign air transportation of persons, property and mail on the routes set out above. The authority granted is set to expire by its own terms on September 21, 2008. USA 3000, therefore, requests that its authority to conduct scheduled combination service on these routes be extended by a further two years. USA has been successfully operating scheduled combination service on these routes since grant of authority, utilizing Airbus A-320 aircraft (168Y). Counsel: Pierre Murphy, 202-776-3980
OST-2004-19479 - Exemption - Philadelphia-Bermuda May 7, 2008 Application for Renewal of Exemption Authority By Notice of Action Taken dated September 18, 2006, USA 3000 was granted renewal of its exemption authority for two years to conduct scheduled foreign air transportation of persons, property and mail on the route set out above. The authority granted is set to expire by its own terms on September 18, 2008. USA 3000, therefore, requests that its authority to conduct scheduled combination service on this route be extended by a further two years. USA has been successfully operating scheduled combination service on this route since grant of authority, utilizing Airbus A-320 aircraft (168Y). Counsel: Pierre Murphy, 202-776-3980
OST-2004-19480 - Exemption - US-Jamaica and Bahamas May 7, 2008 Application for Renewal of Exemption Authority By Notice of Action Taken dated September 18, 2006, USA 3000 was granted, inter alia, renewal of its exemption authority for two years to conduct scheduled foreign air transportation of persons, property and mail on the route set out above. The authority granted is set to expire by its own terms on September 18, 2008. USA 3000, therefore, requests that its authority to conduct scheduled combination service on this route be extended by a further two years. USA has been successfully operating scheduled combination service on this route since grant of authority utilizing Airbus A-320 aircraft (168Y). Counsel: Pierre Murphy, 202-776-3980
OST-2004-19673 - Exemption - Philadelphia-Puerto Vallarta; Cleveland-Puerto Vallarta; Hartford-Cancun May 7, 2008 Application for Renewal of Exemption Authority USA has been successfully operating scheduled combination service on this route since grant of authority, utilizing Airbus A-320 aircraft (168Y). Counsel: Pierre Murphy, 202-776-3980 |
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