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OST Docket Filings for March 30, 2005

Updated: 3/30/05 | 10:01 PM

Applications and Renewals:

Aeromexico - Acapulco-Los Angeles Renewal

Alaska Airlines - Form 41 Motion

Cargojet Airways d/b/a Starjet Airways - Canada-US Executive Charters Renewal

ExpressJet - Form 41 Motions

Federal Express - Form 41 Motion

Northwest Airlines - Form 41 Motion

2001 US-China Codeshare Points Case - American Airlines Renewal

2002 US-Mexico All-Cargo Exemption Service Case - Application of Atlas Air for Start-Up Waiver

Answers and Replies:

Aerolineas Argentinas - Sixty-Second Escrow Deposit Report and Documentation

Boston-Maine Airways - Reply of Boston-Maine to ALPA

EAS at Jackson, TN - Comments of Jeffrey Hildebrand

EAS at Massena, Ogdensburg, and Watertown, NY - Request for Comments

Evergreen - US-Japan Polling Letter

Intra-Alaska Mail Rates - Agreement between USPS and Frontier Flying Service

North American - Oakland-Cancun/Mexico City Dormancy Waiver Polling Letter

Skybus Airlines - Information Request

2005 Los Angeles-Mexico City Combination Service Proceeding - Correspondence of Oregon and Washington State Congressional Delegation in Support of Alaska Airlines

Notices of Action Taken:

IATA - Approval of Agreements

Volga-Dnepr - Philadelphia-Moffet Field Emergency Exemption

Notices and Orders:

Contract Air Cargo - Consent Order




Aerolineas Argentinas, S.A.

OST-03-15092 - Joint Complaint against Aerolineas Argentinas, Air Plus Argentina, Southern Winds, and the Government of Argentina

March 30, 2005

Re: Sixty-Second Escrow Deposit Report and Documentation

Attached please find the SIXTY-SECOND Escrow Deposit REPORT and DOCUMENTATION for the week ended March 27, 2005. Aerolineas made a deposit into the escrow of U.S. $33,520.50, for a total escrow amount of U.S. $1,868,954.87.

Counsel: Rosen Weinhaus, John Romans, 212-530-4827, jromans@lrjwlaw.com

http://www.aerolineas.com.ar/

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Aerovias de Mexico, S.A. de C.V.

OST-01-9518 - Acapulco-Los Angeles

March 30, 2005

Application for Renewal of Exemption Authority

By this application, Aeromexico seeks renewal of its exemption authority to provide service between Acapulco, Mexico, and Los Angeles, California, which was last granted by Notice of Action Taken, dated April 30, 2004, and will expire on April 30, 2005. Although Aeromexico has utilized the authority in the past, it currently is not offering nonstop service due to weak demand. Rather, it is serving the market via connecting service at Mexico City Nevertheless, Aeromexico desires to retain the authority so it may resume service when economic conditions improve.

Counsel: DLA Piper Rudnick, William Evans, 202-861-6459

http://www.aeromexico.com/

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Alaska Airlines, Inc.

OST-1996-1637 - Form 41 - Schedules B-7 and B-43

March 25, 2005

Motion for Confidential Treatment Pursuant to Rule 39

Counsel: Alaska, Peter Kraus, 206-392-5220

http://www.alaskaair.com/

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Boston-Maine Airways Corp.

OST-00-7668 - Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity - Interstate Scheduled Service Operations

March 30, 2005

Reply of Boston-Maine Airways

The fundamental ‑ and fatal ‑ flaw in ALPA's contention is that each of ALPA's repeated efforts to attack BMAC's fitness for certification are wholly lacking in  factual or legal merit. As BMAC has previously demonstrated, all of ALPA's attacks on BMAC's fitness are based on alleged violations of the Railway Labor Act, and other alleged noncompliance with laws, asserted to have been committed by persons and corporate entities other than BMAC. BMAC has further demonstrated that, with respect to ALPA's allegations about those other parties, there is considerably less to them than meets the eye. By now it is patently clear that all of ALPA's attacks against BMAC arise out of ALPA's bitter pilot labor dispute with Pan American Airways Corp., a dispute which was at the center of litigation in the Federal District Court for the District of New Hampshire and ultimately the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit.

ALPA' s repeated and continuing efforts to invoke its labor dispute with Pan Am in order to delay, harass and defeat the legitimate and commendable efforts of BMAC to expand and improve the economic efficiency of its public service through the addition of large aircraft to its small‑aircraft fleet are unconscionable. BMAC believes that ALPA will not relent in its efforts to inflict delay and financial harm, and to thereby destroy BMAC, unless and until the Department unequivocally rejects ALPA's strategy of pressing its labor grievances under the guise of attacks on BMAC's fitness.

Counsel: Zuckert Scoutt, Nathaniel Breed, 202-973-7919, npbreed@zsrlaw.com

http://www.bmairways.com/

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Cargojet Airways, Ltd. d/b/a Starjet Airways

OST-04-17314 - Exemption - Canada-US Passenger and Cargo

March 30, 2005

Application for Renewal of Exemption Authority

Cargojet, a flag carrier of Canada, has held all-cargo exemption authority from the Department since the year 2000. In 2004 it sought and received authority to expand its authority to include both all-cargo and passenger operations on both a scheduled and charter basis. The Department concluded at that time, based on the exemption application and a contemporaneous permit application that remains pending in Docket OST-2004-17315, that Cargojet was operationally and financially qualified to conduct such operations and that the authority was consistent with the public interest. Nothing has occurred that would invalidate either of those findings, and Cargoj et continues to hold the required Canadian authority.

Counsel: DLA Piper Rudnick, John Mietus, Jr., 202-861-6466, john.mietus@dlapiper.com

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Contract Air Cargo, Inc.

Order 05-03-39
OST-2005-20077 - Violations of U.S.C. 55 41101 and 41712

Issued and Served March 30, 2005

Consent Order

This consent order concerns unauthorized air transportation by Contract Air Cargo, Inc., which performed operations as a common carrier without the requisite economic authority from the Department. It directs CAC to cease and desist from such future unlawful conduct and assesses a compromise civil penalty of $350,000.

By: Rosalind Knapp

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Essential Air Service at Jackson, Tennessee

OST-00-7857 - EAS at Jackson, TN

March 29, 2005

Re: Comments of Jeffrey Hildebrand

By: Jeffrey Hildebrand

http://www.mklairport.tn.org/

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Essential Air Service at Massena, Ogdensburg, and Watertown, New York

OST-97-2842 - EAS at Massena, Ogdensburg, and Watertown, New York

March 30, 2005

Re: Request for Comments from Jeffrey Graham, Mayor of Watertown

I would like to update you on the essential air service (EAS) situation at Massena, Ogdensburg and Watertown, and to give you an opportunity to submit any comments if you wish. As you know, by Order 2005-2-12, February 17, 2005, the Department solicited proposals from all carriers interested in providing EAS at Massena, Ogdensburg and Watertown for a two-year period. In response to that order, we received a proposal from Air Midwest.

By: Dennis DeVany

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Evergreen International Airlines, Inc.

OST-04-19666 - Exemption - US-Japan All-Cargo Service

March 30, 2005

Re: Polling Letter

Counsel for Evergreen International Airlines, Inchas polled each of the carriers served with the Application of Evergreen International Airlines, Inc. for an Amendment of U.S.‑Japan Authority filed in the above‑referenced Docket on March 29, 2005 and hereby reports that the Application is unopposed. Accordingly, Evergreen requests expedited consideration so that the U.S. Government can notify the Government of Japan of the new routing sought in the Application by April 1, 2005 ‑‑ 60 days before Evergreen's planned June 1, 2005 initiation of service as required under the April 20, 1998 Memorandum of Understanding Between the United States and Japan.

Counsel: Silverberg Goldman, Robert Silverberg, 202-944-3300, rsilverberg@sgbdc.com

http://www.evergreenaviation.com/

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ExpressJet Airlines, Inc.


OST-96-1222 - Form 41 Motion Schedule B-43

March 29, 2005

Motion for Confidential Treatment Pursuant to Rule 12

Counsel: Scott Peterson, 713-324-5018


OST-96-1222 - Form 41 Motion Schedule B-7

March 29, 2005

Motion for Confidential Treatment Pursuant to Rule 12

Counsel: Scott Peterson, 713-324-5018

http://www.expressjet.com/

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Federal Express Corporation

OST-1997-2494 - Form 41 Schedule B-43

March 28, 2005

Motion for Confidential Treatment Pursuant to Rule 12

Counsel: Federal Express, G. Bailey Leopard, 901-434-6664

http://www.fedex.com/

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International Air Transport Association

OST-2005-20678

Filed March 16, 2005 | Approved March 21, 2005

Notice of Approval of Agreements | Word

By: Paul Gretch

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Intra-Alaska Class Service Mail Rates

OST-03-14694 - Intra-Alaska Class Service Mail Rates

March 30, 2005

Agreement between The United States Postal Service and Frontier Flying Service

Counsel: USPS, William Jones, 202-268-5329, william.j.jones@usps.com

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North American Airlines, Inc.

OST-04-19075 - Exemption - Oakland-Cancun/Mexico City

March 30, 2005

Re: Polling Letter

This is to confirm that we have completed the polling of carriers on North American's request filed March 23, 2005, for a dormancy waiver through June 15, 2005 to begin Oakland service to Cancun. There were no objections to the request.

Counsel: Baker & Hostetler, David Kirstein, 202-861-1756, dkirstein@bakerlaw.com

http://www.northamericanair.com/

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Northwest Airlines, Inc.

OST-1996-1638 - Form 41 - Schedules B-7 and B-43

March 30, 2005

Motion to Withhold Information from Public Disclosure

Counsel: Northwest, Megan Rae Rosia

http://www.nwa.com/

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Skybus Airlines, LLC

OST-2005-20072 - Interstate Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity - Columbus-US

March 30, 2005

Re: Information Request

In its application, Skybus states that it has yet to decide on the aircraft it will use in its proposed operations. The applicant indicates that it will either choose between a fleet of Boeing 737 Next Generation aircraft or Airbus A320 aircraft and that it expects to issue a Request for Proposal in early 2005 and decide on the aircraft within 60 days of the suppliers' response. Has Skybus issued a Request for Proposal? If so, please identify the aircraft to be used in Skybus' operations and a copy of the aircraft lease or purchase agreement outlining the terms and conditions of the agreement.

Skybus indicates that it is working with Morgan Stanley on a private placement offering to raise between $70 million to $100 million to support its proposed operations. Is this correct? If so, please provide a copy of the agreement between Skybus and Morgan Stanley, including the terms and conditions of the private placement offering. In addition, if the private placement offering has been enacted, please provide information regarding the amount of funds raised to date.

By: Air Carrier Fitness, Lauralyn Remo

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Volga-Dnepr J.S. Cargo Airlines

OST-2005-20745 - Emergency Exemption - Philadelphia-Moffet Field

Supplement Filed March 29, 2005 | Issued March 30, 2005

Notice of Action Taken

Amend exemption from 49 U.S.C. section 40109(g) to permit the applicant to operate one, one-way cargo charter flight, using its AN-124-100 aircraft, carrying outsized cargo on behalf of Lockheed Martin, from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Moffett Field, Sunnyvale, California, during the period March 24-30, 2005, by extension of duration through April 5, 2005. The applicant states that the flight, to carry one JCsat-9 Satellite Module Container, with a satellite inside, and associated equipment, now needs to be conducted early April because of a production delay.

By: Paul Gretch

http://www.nwa.com/

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2005 Los Angeles-Mexico City Combination Service Proceeding

OST-2005-20406


March 4, 2005

Correspondence of Oregon State Congressional Delegation in Support of Alaska Airlines

By: Earl Blumenauer, Darlene Hooley, and David Wu


March 4, 2005

Correspondence of Washington State Congressional Delegation in Support of Alaska Airlines

By: Patty Murray, Maria Cantwell, Norm Dicks, Jim McDermott, Doc Hastings, Jay Inslee, Adam Smith, Brian Baird, Rick Larsen, Cathy McMorris, and Dave Reichert

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2001 US-China Codeshare Points Case

OST-2001-10172

March 30, 2005

Application of American Airlines for Renewal of Exemption Authority

hereby applies for renewal of its exemption authority to serve the following codeshare points in China: Changsha, Chongqing, Dalian, Fuzhou, Guilin, Kunming, Nanning, Shenzhen, and Wuhan. This authority was last renewed by Notice of Action Taken in this docket on June 2, 2003. American's codeshare partner in China is China Eastern Airlines Corporation Limited.

For technical reasons related to computerized reservations interfaces, American and China Eastern have not yet implemented codeshare service to the points at issue. After receiving final authority to serve the Chicago-Shanghai route in OST-2004-19077, American will enter into discussions with China Eastern to resolve those issues. We accordingly request renewal to retain the ability to add these cities to our route system on a codeshare basis as soon as technical considerations permit.

Counsel: American, Carl Nelson, 202-496-5647, carl.nelson@aa.com

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2002 US-Mexico All-Cargo Exemption Service Case

OST-02-13299 - 2002 US-Mexico All-Cargo Exemption Service Case

March 30, 2005

Application of Atlas Air for Start-Up Waiver | Word

Because the ongoing licensing process in Mexico has not yet been completed, Atlas Air, Inc. requests an additional two-month waiver of the startup condition for its U.S.-Mexico scheduled services, until April 9, 2005.

Counsel: Atlas Air, Russell Pommer, 202-822-9121, rpommer@atlasair.com

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