ost983484

OST-98-3484

Japan Airlines Company, Ltd. (Amend Foreign Air Carrier Permit)

OST-98-3484 | February 13, 1998

Application to Amend Foreign Air Carrier Permit

Amend its foreign air carrier permit to authorize JAL to (i) engage in, in addition to operations permitted by its existing permit authority, both combination and all-cargo services between any point or points behind Japan, any point or points in Japan, any intermediate point or points, any point or points in the territory of the United States, and any point or points beyond the United States, without any limitation on frequency or capacity.

With respect to the immediate future, JAL plans to increase weekly combination frequencies as soon as possible in the Tokyo-Chicago and Los Angeles-Sao Paulo markets.

Exhibit 1: General Information
Exhibit 2: Operating Authority and Bilateral Designation from the Japanese Government
Exhibit 3: Financial Data for Fiscal Year 3/97 and 3/96

Verification | Service List

Answers are due by March 13, 1998

Counsel: Wilmer Cutler, Jeffrey Shane, 202-663-6000

All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd. / Federal Express Corporation / Japan Airlines Company, Ltd. / Nippon Cargo Airlines Co., Ltd. / United Air Lines, Inc. (US-Japan)

OST-98-3424 | OST-98-3435 | OST-98-3436 | OST-98-3449 | OST-98-3484 | OST-98-3475 | OST-96-1131 | February 20, 1998

Consolidated Answer of Northwest Airlines

Northwest believes for several reasons that this "blanket authority" approach is preferable to granting authority to the incumbent carriers on a market-by-market basis, and has followed that approach in its own recently filed certificate application in Docket OST-98-3441. First, this approach is consistent with the broad language of the MOC provisions relating to the incumbent U.S. and Japanese carriers. Second, it reduces the volume of paperwork that the incumbent carriers otherwise would have to prepare (and that DOT decision makers would have to address) if a separate application had to be filed for each pair of countries or cities. Third, because it reduces the volume of such application paperwork, this approach enables the incumbents to continuously revise their routes and schedules in response to changes in consumer demand without having to continuously return to DOT to secure the necessary authority.

Counsel: Northwest, Megan Rae Poldy, 202-842-3193

ALL NIPPON AIRWAYS CO., LTD. JAPAN AIRLINES COMPANY, LTD. NIPPON CARGO AIRLINES CO., LTD.

Order 98-4-17 | OST-98-3464 | OST-98-3484 | OST-98-3475 | Issued April 2, 1998 | Served April 21, 1998

Order Issuing Foreign Air Carrier Permits

By: Charles Hunnicutt