OST Docket Filings for January 7, 2004
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Amerijet - Brazil All-Cargo Certificate Arrow - Brazil All-Cargo Certificate Answers and Replies: EAS at Yakutat - Letters in Support of Alaska Airlines Washington National Slots - Letters in Support of Frontier's Service Proposal Notices of Action Taken: Mexicana - Mexicali-Las Vegas/Portland Mexicana and ANA - Codeshare Renewal Skywest - Codeshare with Lufthansa Transporte Aereo Tecnico - Mexican Taxi Renewal Notices and Orders: TPI International - Revoking Foreign Certificate |
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OST-03-16690 - Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity - US-Brazil All-Cargo Services January 7, 2004 Application for a Certificate of Public Convenience and necessity and Request for Frequencies By this application, Amerijet is seeking a new or amended certificate of public convenience and necessity and a designation as one of the four U.S. carriers authorized to provide schedule all‑cargo service in the U.S.‑Brazil market and, to the extent permissible, to integrate that authority with certificate and exemption authority Amerijet holds or may hold in the future. It is also requesting an allocation of five frequencies to permit it to institute and conduct such services. The U.S.‑Brazil scheduled all‑cargo market has been troublesome for several years. Although U.S. negotiators have not been able to make the market an open entry market, they have convinced Brazil to agree that four U.S. scheduled all‑cargo carriers may be designated by the Department to operate a total of twenty‑four round‑trip frequencies per week. Due to adverse economic conditions in Brazil, however, demand for all-cargo air transportation in the market has continuously diminished in recent years. In fact, there has not been a time in recent months and years when all available scheduled all-cargo frequencies have been operated by U.S. designated carriers. Prior to 2002, the twenty-four available frequencies were allocated to FedEx, UPS, Atlas and Polar. Following the acquisition of Polar by Atlas, on June 28, 2002, the Department instituted the 2002 U.S.-Brazil All-Cargo Service Proceeding to select a scheduled all-cargo carrier to utilize the four frequencies previously awarded to Polar. See Order 2002-6-20. Amerijet, Evergreen and Gemini prosecuted applications for the available designation and frequencies with Evergreen and Gemini proposing to add more wide-body bulk capacity in the largest and best served U.S.-Brazil market, while Amerijet proposed to expand its well-established scheduled all-cargo system beyond its then existing limits into several of the smaller under-served U.S.-Brazil markets. By Order 2003-5-27, the Department designated Evergreen as the fourth U.S. scheduled all-cargo carrier and awarded backup authority to Gemini. Counsel: John Richardson, 202-371-2258 OST-03-16690 - Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity to Engage in Scheduled All-Cargo Foreign Air Transportation between the US and Brazil in Conjunction with the US-Brazil All-Cargo Services Proceeding January 7, 2004 Arrow hereby applies for the following: (a) A certificate of public convenience and necessity to engage in scheduled foreign air transportation of property and mail between a point or points in the United States, via intermediate points, and the coterminal points Manaus, Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Recife, Porto Alegre, Belem, Belo Horizonte, and Salvador de Bahia, and beyond Brazil to Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Chile; (b) Authorization to integrate U.S.-Brazil scheduled authority with Arrow's other all-cargo certificate and exemption authority and to commingle traffic consistent with applicable aviation agreements between the U.S. and foreign countries; (c) Allocation of five weekly U.S.-Brazil all-cargo wide-body frequencies. Arrow currently operates all-cargo charter services between the U.S. and Brazil. It has routinely requested and been authorized to operate approximately 20 round trip flights each month. During the year 2003 it has averaged 4.3 weekly round trip all-cargo charter flights between the U.S. and Brazil. Counsel: Lawrence Wasko, 202-862-4321 Compania Mexicana de Aviacion, S.A. de C.V. OST-04-16845 - Mexicali-Las Vegas/Portland Filed January 2, 2004 | Issued January 7, 2004 Exemption from 49 USC section 41301 to permit the applicant to conduct scheduled, combination services between Mexicali, Mexico, and the two U.S. coterminal points Las Vegas, Nevada, and Portland, Oregon, for a period of one year. By: Paul Gretch Compania Mexicana de Aviacion, S.A. de C.V. and All Nippon Airways OST-01-11197 - Mexico-Japan via Los Angeles Codeshare Filed December 17, 2003 | Approved January 5, 2004 Department Action on Renewal Application Application of Compania Mexicana de Aviacion and All Nippon Airways to renew their authority under 14 CFR Part 212, to continue to engage in certain code-sharing operations between Mexico and Japan, via Los Angeles, California, for a period of two years. Under this codeshare arrangement, Mexicana places its code on flights operated by ANA between Los Angeles and Tokyo (Narita), and ANA places its code on flights operated by Mexicana between Los Angeles and the three Mexican coterminal points Mexico City. Guadalajara and Cancun. (Under this arrangement, Mexicana and ANA transport passengers only between Mexico and Japan and do not carry any traffic originating in, or destined for, Los Angeles.) By: Allen Brown Essential Air Service at Yakutat, Alaska
November 15, 2004 Re: Continuation of Alaska Airlines' EAS Service By: Yakutat Tingit Tribe
December 10, 2003 Re: Letter in Support of Alaska Airlines By: Yak-Tat Kwaan
December 15, 2003 Re: Continuation of Alaska Airlines' EAS Service By: Roxanne Lee
December 16, 2003 Re: Continuation of Alaska Airlines' EAS Service By: City of Wrangell
December 16, 2003 Re: Continuation of Alaska Airlines' EAS Service By: City of Wrangell
December 16, 2003 Re: Support of Alaska Airlines' EAS Service By: Cordova Telephone
December 16, 2003 Re: Continuation of Alaska Airlines' EAS Service By: City & Borough of Yakutat OST-03-16724 - US-Germany Codeshare with Lufthansa Filed December 15, 2003 | Approved January 6, 2004 Department Action on Approval Application Application of SkyWest Airlines, operating as United Express, for a statement of authorization to display the designator code of Lufthansa German Airlines between U.S. points in connection with Lufthansa's international air service By: George Wellington Special Rules for Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (Beyond-Perimeter Slot Exemptions Letters in Support of Frontier's Service Proposal TPI International Airways, Inc. Order 03-12-29 Issued December 23, 2003 | Served January 5, 2004 Order Revoking Foreign Certificate By this order, we are revoking a companion certificate issued by Order 85‑11‑34 authorizing foreign charter air transportation. Instead of repeating our findings and conclusions in Order 2003‑10‑26, we incorporate them here by reference. By: Randall Bennett Transporte Aereo Tecnico Ejecutivo, S.A. de C.V. OST-96-1696 - Mexico-US Charter Air Transportation Filed November 25, 2003 | Issued January 7, 2004 By: Paul Gretch |
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