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OST-98-3401
American Airlines, Inc. (Exemption Renewal, Codeshare with South African Airways)
OST-98-3401 | January 29, 1998
Application
for Renewal of Exemption to Serve South Africa
Under this arrangement, the "AA" designator code is displayed on SAA's flights between the United States and South Africa, and the "SA" designator code is displayed on American's certain domestic fights operated by American beyond SAA's U.S. gateways.
Answers are due by February 13, 1998
Counsel: American, Carl Nelson, 202-496-5647, carl_nelson@amrcorp.com
American Airlines. Inc. - (Renew Notice of Action Taken)
OST-98-3401 | Filed January 29, 1998 | Action Taken March 31, 1998
Scheduled foreign air transportation of persons, property, and mail between the coterminal points New York, New York, and Miami, Florida, and the coterminal points Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa. American intends to serve these markets pursuant to a code-share arrangement with South African Airways. American requested that its authority be renewed for an indefinite duration.
Applicant rep.: Carl Nelson, Jr., 202.496.5647
Order Confirming Notices of Action Taken
Order 98-6-2 | Issued June 2, 1998 | Served June 8, 1998
By: Paul Gretch
| OST-98-3401 | January 27, 2000 | Application for Renewal and Amendment of Exemption | U.S.- South Africa |
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Counsel: American, Carl Nelson, 202.496.5647, carl_nelson@amrcorp.com
| OST-98-3401 | February 8, 2000 | Answer of United Air Lines | U.S.- South Africa |
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By its application, American seeks to renew the exemption authority it previously used to serve South Africa by means of a code-share arrangement with South African Airways, and amend the authority to enable American to code share with British Airways between London and South Africa. United has opposed any code sharing by American and British Airways involving services to, from or via London Heathrow or London Gatwick until such time as sufficient access to those airports is granted to U.S. carriers. United also has specifically opposed American's application for a U.S./South Africa code-share designation to support the British Airways code share for this reason. United's position is fully set forth in its Answer, dated December 14, 1999, in Docket OST-99-6595 and its Answer, dated December 1, 1999, in Docket OST-99-6507, which pleadings United adopts here by reference. For the reasons set forth above, the Department should defer action on American's application to renew and amend its South Africa exemption authority until access to London's Heathrow and Gatwick airports has been secured for U.S. carriers to provide them a fair opportunity to compete with the American/British Airways combination.
Counsel: Kirkland Ellis, Jeffery Manley, 202.879.5161, jeffery_manley@kirkland.com
| OST-98-3401 | February 23, 2000 | Reply of Continental Airlines and Motion for Leave to File | South Africa Codeshare with British Airways |
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American seeks to get a leg up on U.S.-South Africa codesharing by claiming that it already holds U.S.-South Africa authority, despite the fact that its existing authority was awarded only for the purpose of codesharing with South African Airways and only at two specified U.S. gateways. As United has pointed out in its answer, and as Continental, Delta, Houston and United have demonstrated in opposing codesharing between American and British Airways, the dominance of American and British Airways at Heathrow and the U.K.’s refusal to open up Heathrow to new competition preclude any authorization which would enhance the American/British Airways dominance further.
Counsel: Continental and Crowell Moring, Bruce Keiner, 202-624-2500
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