OST-95-545 - Delta Air Lines - Route 757

OST-95-545

Continental Airlines, Inc. / Delta Air Lines, Inc. / Federal Express Corporation / Northwest Airlines, Inc.

Order 99-2-8
OST-97-2516 (45131)
OST-95-545 (48307)
OST-97-3207
OST-97-3089
OST-97-3177

Issued January 4, 1999
Served February 11, 1999

Order Issuing Certificates

Scanned Version

Certificates of Public Convenience and Necessity

Continental Airlines, Inc. for Renewal and Amendment of Certificate for Route 381(1) Renew certificate to provide scheduled foreign air transportation of persons, property, and mail between the coterminal points New Orleans, Louisiana; Houston and Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas; and the coterminal points Maracaibo and Caracas, Venezuela, and (2) amend the certificate to add additional authority between Newark, New Jersey, and Caracas, Venezuela, and to integrate this authority with its existing exemption and certificate authority.
Delta Air Lines, Inc. for Route 757 is authorized to engage in scheduled foreign air transportation of persons, property, and mail: Between Atlanta, Georgia, and Caracas, Venezuela.
Delta Air Lines, Inc. for Route 152 is authorized to engage in scheduled foreign air transportation of persons, property, and mail: Between a point or points in the United States and a point or points in Panama. Between a point or points in the United States and a point or points in the Bahama Islands, Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, the Netherlands Antilles, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. Between a point or points in the United States and a point or points in Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and the Federal Republic of Germany. Between a point or points in the United States and a point or points in Korea, Hong Kong, Thailand, and Singapore, and Taiwan.
Federal Express Corporation for Route 638 is authorized to engage in scheduled foreign air transportation of property and mail: Between a point or points in the United States via any intermediate points, to a point or points in China open to scheduled international operations. and beyond to any points outside of China, with full traffic rights.
Northwest Airlines, Inc. for Route 378 is authorized to engage m scheduled foreign air transportation of persons, property, and mail: Between the terminal point Chicago, [L, the intermediate points Los Angeles, CA; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA or Honolulu, Hl; an intermediate point in Japan; and the coterminal points Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Beijing, China. Between Detroit, Michigan, and Beijing, China.

By: Charles Hunnicutt

July 30, 2003

OST-95-545 - Route 757 - Atlanta-Caracas

Application for Renewal of Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity

Application of Delta Air Lines, Inc., pursuant to 49 USC Sections 41102 and 41108 and Subpart B, requesting renewal of its certificate of public convenience and necessity to engage in scheduled foreign air transportation of persons, property, and mail between Atlanta, Georgia, and Caracas, Venezuela.

Delta hereby applies for renewal of its Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity for Route 757, issued by Order 99-2-8 and set to expire on February 5, 2004, to authorize Delta to continue engage in scheduled combination service between Atlanta and Caracas. Delta further requests that the Department give timely and favorable consideration to Delta's application for broad U.S.-Venezuela certificate authority, which remains pending in Docket OST-99-6246. In the interim, Delta urges the Department to renew its Route 757 Atlanta-Caracas certificate indefinitely, consistent with the duration of U.S.Venezuela certificate authority granted to other U.S. carriers, as explained in more detail below.

Delta requests the Department to reconsider its determination regarding U.S. -Venezuela route awards set forth in the Appendix to Order 99-2-8, and grant Delta's pending omnibus certificate application in Docket OST-99-6246, which includes U.S.-Venezuela.

Pursuant to Route 757 and an exemption previously granted to Delta in Docket OST-97-2614, Delta has provided daily nonstop service between its Atlanta hub and Caracas since 1997. Delta currently serves this route using Boeing 737-800 equipment.

Counsel: Shaw Pittman, Robert Cohn, 202-663-8060