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OST Docket Filings for March 7, 2007
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Azteca - US-Mexico Renewal IATA - Mail Vote 527 - Resolution 010k TC3 Japan, Korea-South East Asia Answers and Replies: Chautauqua Airlines - Warsaw Agreement Continental and Air Exel - Withdrawal of Renewal Application and Will Not Seek Codesharing Renewal EAS at Burlington, IA; Cape Girardeau, MO; Ft. Leonard Wood, MO; Jackson, TN; Marion/Herrin, IL; and Owensboro, KY - Statement of Delta EAS at Oil City, PA - City of Oil City in Support of Air Midwest EAS at Owensboro, KY - Owensboro-Daviess County Regional Airport Board in Support of Big Sky EAS at Quincy, IL - Sample Airport Facility Lease US-Ecuador All-Cargo - Centurion Polling Results Virgin America - Hundreds of Flight Attendants in Opposition Zoom Airlines - Answer of Delta (Pendente Lite Exemption) Notices of Action Taken: Air China - US-China Codesharing with United Renewal US-Ecuador All-Cargo - Centurion Waiver of Dormancy Notices and Orders: Chautauqua Airlines - Registration of Trade Name (Continental Express) Ethiopian Airlines - Show Cause (Foreign Air Carrier Permit) |
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Air China Limited d/b/a Air China OST-2003-16213 - US-People's Republic of China Codesharing with United Filed January 12, 2007 | Issued March 7, 2007 Renew exemption from 49 U.S.C. § 41301 to engage in scheduled foreign air transportation of persons, property and mail, in combination or separately, between any point or points in the People's Republic of China, on the one hand, and any point or points in the United States, on the other hand, under a code-share arrangement with United Air Lines, Inc. The applicant requests that the authority be granted for a two-year term. Approved in part (one-year grant), remainder (request for longer-term authority) dismissed. By: Paul Gretch
OST-1995-236 - Warsaw Agreements March 7, 2007 By: Chautauqua, Bryan Bedford
Served March 7, 2007 Notice of Registration of Trade Name On February 13, 2007, Chautauqua Airlines, Inc., a certificated air carrier, requested that the Department register the trade name "Continental Express" for use in certain of its air transportation operations. Chautauqua states that Continental Airlines, Inc. is aware of the name change and concurs with the registration of the trade name "Continental Express". Further, both Chautauqua and Continental are aware that there are other certificated air carriers that operate using similar names, including Express Jet Airlines, Inc., SkyWest Airlines, Inc., and Continental Micronesia, Inc., pursuant to a code-share agreement with Continental. Therefore no other notification is required. Since Chautauqua has complied with the requirements of Part 215, we acknowledge the registration of the trade name "Continental Express" by Chautauqua for immediate use in its operations. By: Todd Homan Continental Airlines, Inc. and Air Exel OST-2002-11945 - Continental and Air Exel - Statement of Authorization - US-Netherlands Codeshare March 5, 2007 Withdrawal of Renewal Application and Will Not Seek Codesharing Renewal Air Exel is no longer operating, and the services it provided previously are now being provided by KLM Cityhopper. Consequently, the parties withdraw the March 18, 2004, application for renewal of Air Exel's exemption authority permitting it to codeshare with Continental and urge the Department to dismiss it. For the same reason, Continental has not sought renewal of its exemption authority for codesharing with Air Exel in Docket OST-2005-20122. Counsel: KLM, Paul Mifsud, 202-861-5867, pmifsudklm@aol.com for KLM / Crowell & Moring, Bruce Keiner, 202-624-2500, rbkeiner@cromor.com Essential Air Service at Burlington, IA; Cape Girardeau, MO; Ft. Leonard Wood, MO; Jackson, TN; Marion/Herrin, IL; and Owensboro, KY OST-2001-8731 - EAS at Burlington, IA March 7, 2007 Delta Air Lines, Inc. submits this statement in support of the submission of Big Sky Transportation Co. d/b/a Big Sky Airlines to the extent it proposes to provide essential air service between the above-referenced communities and Cincinnati, Ohio. Delta further hereby advises the Department that if one of Big Sky's Cincinnati proposals (either proposal 2 or proposal 4) is selected, Delta intends to codeshare with Big Sky on those EAS flights. A codeshare relationship with Big Sky would offer passengers from the affected EAS communities access to Delta's global transportation system. Counsel: Hogan & Hartson, Robert Cohn, 202-637-4999, recohn@hhlaw.com Essential Air Service at Oil City, Pennsylvania March 5, 2007 City of Oil City in Support of Air Midwest It is my understanding that Air Midwest is the current carrier for the airport and has done a credible job of servicing the Franklin and Oil City areas with local service to Pittsburgh. We would support their retention as the airport's carrier in the future and we trust that they will continue to furnish air passengers from our region with reliable service at competitive prices. By: Mayor, Edward Sharp, Jr. Essential Air Service at Owensboro, Kentucky March 2, 2007 Owensboro-Daviess County Regional Airport Board in Support of Big Sky Airlines The Airport Board, along with the Chamber of Commerce, reviewed the proposals and requests that you approve the application submitted by Big Sky Airlines for non-stop service to Cincinnati as a Delta Connection carrier. By: Mayor, Tom Watson Essential Air Service at Quincy, Illinois March 6, 2007 Sample Airport Facility Lease | Word By: Interim Airport Director, Jeffrey Steinkamp, 217-228-4527
Order 2007-3-2 Issued and Served March 7, 2007 By application filed April 9, 1998, as supplemented April 17, 1998, amended September 23, 1998 and June 19, 2006, and again supplemented August 30, 2006, Ethiopian Airlines, a foreign air carrier of Ethiopia, requests a foreign air carrier permit to engage in scheduled and charter foreign air transportation of persons, property and mail. Subsequent to the filing of these pleadings, the United States and Ethiopia reached an open skies Air Transport Agreement, signed May 17, 2005, which provides extensive rights for carriers of both countries, including in Annexes I and II to that Agreement, the authority sought by Ethiopian in this proceeding. We received no answers to either of the Ethiopian filings submitted following the conclusion of this Agreement. By this order we tentatively find that it is in the public interest to grant the applicant the foreign air carrier permit attached as the Appendix to this order. By: Paul Gretch International Air Transport Association OST-2007-27535 March 7, 2007 Application for Approval of Agreements Mail Vote 527 - Resolution 010k TC3 Japan, Korea-South East Asia Special Passenger Amending Resolution between Korea (Rep. of) and China excluding Hong Kong SAR and Macao SAR, Mongolia, Philippines (Memo 1064) Intended effective date: 15 March 2007. Counsel: IATA, Douglas Lavin Lineas Aereas Azteca, S.A. de C.V. OST-2006-24244 - Exemption - Hermosillo-Las Vegas; Tijuana-Oakland March 7, 2007 Application for Renewal of Exemption Azteca hereby submits its application for renewal of the Exemption from 49 U.S.C. §41301 authorizing Azteca to engage in scheduled foreign air transportation of persons, property and mail on the following U.S. - Mexico routes:
Azteca has been operating Mexico-U.S. schedule combination services using B737-300 and B-737-700 equipment on its authorized routes. Counsel: Pierre Murphy, 202-776-3980, pmurphy@lopmurphy.com US-Ecuador All-Cargo Frequencies
March 7, 2007 Email Message - Re: Polling Results We wanted to update you on our polling efforts with respect to Centurion Air Cargo's Application for Waiver of the Dormancy Condition in the U.S.-Ecuador Frequency Proceeding (Docket OST-2002-12503). We have polled all interested air carriers. None of the carriers had any objections to the application. We would greatly appreciate your prompt attention to this matter. The current start up deadline is tomorrow March 8, 2007. Counsel: Zuckert Scoutt, Lonnie Pera, 202-973-7913, lapera@zsrlaw.com
Filed March 5, 2007 | Approved March 7, 2007 Department Action on Application While we are granting Centurion the waiver it requests, we are putting it on notice that there should be no expectation that an additional request will similarly be granted. As is our policy in considering waiver requests, we reserve the right to reexamine whether grant of this waiver continues to be in the public interest. Any future request to extend the waiver for the frequencies at issue here will have to be considered in light of the specific arguments offered and responses thereto, and in the context of the circumstances present at that time, including whether another carrier seeks to use the frequencies at issue. We acted on this application without awaiting expiration of the 7-day answer period with the consent of all parties served with the application. By: Esta Rosenberg March 7, 2007 Email Message - Association of Flight Attendants-CWA in Opposition to Virgin America
Virgin America claims to be a new generation airline but is nothing more than a direct extension of the Virgin Group, which is owned and operated by foreign interests. Virgin's business plan simply duplicates U.S. domestic routes between large cites that are currently served by a healthy mix of U.S. domestic low-fare airlines and large network carriers that offer point-to-point service and extensive international connections. Should the DOT approve their application, Virgin America could displace thousands of good paying U.S. jobs and offer no real new service to U.S. consumers. I believe that the Virgin Group is trying to circumvent U.S. aviation law with its application. The debate on changing aviation law appropriately belongs in the U.S. House and Senate and not through a DOT application. Foreign interests could not convince congress earlier to change ownership and investment laws and now are employing a different strategy. I urge you to uphold U.S. aviation laws, protect American jobs and deny Virgin America's application. By: Alessandra Macauley OST-2007-27060 - Exemption and Foreign Air Carrier Permit - UK-US March 7, 2007 Delta Air Lines, Inc. hereby answers in opposition to the extraordinary request of Zoom Airlines Ltd. for a pendente lite exemption to permit Zoom to "immediately" begin "holding out, marketing, listing schedules, advertising, sales, accepting reservations, accepting payment and issuing tickets in its homeland, to United Kingdom passengers." Delta takes no position on whether the Department has jurisdiction over Zoom's right to sell or market its proposed London-New York services to consumers in the United Kingdom at a time when it is entirely unclear whether Zoom will ever have the right to actually operate this service. However, Zoom's application is not ripe for consideration and, contrary to Zoom's claim, is clearly not at all similar to the pendente lite authority granted to Delta and Northwest in the context of those carriers' route transfer applications. If the Department concludes that it has jurisdiction over this matter, Zoom's application should be denied. Counsel: Hogan & Hartson, Robert Cohn, 202-637-4999, recohn@hhlaw.com |
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