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OST-98-3675

Continental Airlines, Inc. - (US-Brazil Codesharing) / Viacao Aerea Sao Paolo, S.A. / Continental Airlines, Inc., Continental Express, Inc., and Viacao Aerea Sao Paolo, S.A. - (Exemptions for Codesharing)

OST-98-3675 | Undocketed | March 27, 1998

Joint Application for Exemptions and Statements of Authorization

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(1) Continental and Continental Express seek to display the VASP designator code on Continental flights between Newark and Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro and on Continental and Continental Express flights: (a) between Newark and Baltimore, Boston. Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus (OH), Denver. Detroit, Indianapolis. Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Portland, (OR), Seattle, Washington (DCA) and Toronto, Canada; (b) between Miami and Cleveland, Houston and Newark; and (c) between Los Angeles and Honolulu and San Francisco;

(2) a statement of authorization permitting VASP to display the Continental designator code on VASP flights: (a) between Sao Paulo and Belo Horizonte, Brasilia, Campo Grande, Curitiba, Florianapolis, Goiania, Iguassu Falls, Porto Alegre and Rio de Janeiro; (b) between Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte, Brasilia, Campinas, Curitiba, Recife, Salvador and Vitoria; (c) between Miami and Fortaleza, Recife, Salvador and Sao Paulo; and (d) between Los Angeles and Sao Paulo;

(3) an exemption permitting Continental to engage in scheduled foreign air transportation on a codeshare basis with VASP: (a) between Newark and Belo Horizonte, Brasilia, Campo Grande, Curitiba, Florianapolis, Goiania, Iguassu Falls and Porto Alegre, via Sao Paulo; (b) between Newark and Belo Horizonte, Brasilia, Campinas, Curitiba, Recife, Salvador and Vitoria via Rio de Janeiro; (c) between Miami and Fortaleza, Recife, Salvador and Sao Paulo; and (d) between Los Angeles and Sao Paulo; and (4) an exemption from 49 U.S.C. § 41301 permitting VASP to engage in scheduled foreign air transportation: (a) between Brazil and Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland. Columbus (OH), Denver, Detroit, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Portland (OR), Seattle and Washington (DCA) via Newark; (b) between Brazil and Cleveland, Houston and Newark via Miami; and (c) between Brazil and Honolulu and San Francisco via Los Angeles under a codesharing agreement with Continental. The Joint Applicants propose to implement their code-sharing arrangement June 1, 1998 and ask the Department to grant the requested authority for a two-year period.

Alliance Agreement (Redacted Version)

Answers are due by April 13, 1998.

Counsel: Squire Sanders, Robert Papkin for VASP, 202.626.6600 ; Crowell Moring, R. Keiner, Jr. for Continental and ConEx, 202.624.2500

Continental Airlines, Inc., Continental Express, Inc. and Vicao Aerea Sau Paulo, S.A.

OST-98-3675 | Undocketed | April 10, 1998

Re:  Results of Poll

Delta is "taking no position" on the joint appplication

Counsel:  Crowell Moring, Steven Mirmina, 202-624-2500

Continental Airlines, Inc., Continental Express, Inc. and Vicao Aerea Sao Paulo, S.A.

OST-98-3675 | Undocketed | April 24, 1998

Re:  Joint Application -Redacted Exhibits

• Exhibit C:  Block Space Accounting and Settlement Procedures | Annex to Exhibit C
• Exhibit D:  Block Space Price | Annex 1 to Exhibit D

Counsel:  Crowell Moring, Bruce Keiner

Continental Airlines, Inc., Continental Express, Inc. and Viacao Aerea Sao Paulo, S.A. (VASP) - (Notice of Action Taken)

OST-98-3675 | Filed March 27, 1998 | Action Taken April 27, 1998

Notice of Action 

The Joint Applicants state that they propose to implement their code-share arrangement on June 1, 1998; that the arrangement is in the public interest and will link the extensive Continental and Continental Express U.S network with VASP's Brazilian network, thereby providing Continental and Continental Express and their passengers and shippers greater access to Brazil and providing VASP's passengers and shippers with greater access to the U.S. They also maintain that grant of the requested authorit will enable them to compete more effectively with the three other code-share partnerships between U S and Brazilian carriers which have already been approved. 

Applicant Rep(s).: R. Bruce Keiner, Jr., 202-624-2500

US-London Gatwick Services / Application of Continental Airlines, Inc. (Cleveland-London Designation) / Application of American Airlines, Inc. (San Jose, CA-London Gatwick)

Undocketed | Undocketed | OST-98-3765 | June 24, 1998

Answer of The City of Cleveland

Continental has explained the need for prompt action in its designation request. The Cleveland service proposed by Continental would provide a new Midwestern hub competing with Chicago, Cincinnati and Detroit for traffic flowing through those cities to and from cities Continental serves from Cleveland. Continental's service will provide many more public benefits than American's proposed San Jose-London service. Cleveland is the 14tb largest consumer market in the country, and the largest without nonstop international service (except for service to Toronto). Cleveland is the home of numerous Fortune 500 companies, as well as over 150 firms that conduct business in the United Kingdom. Moreover, American has abandoned San Jose as a hub, and the Department should not permit American's delaying tactics to prevent Continental from instituting long overdue nonstop Cleveland-London service for want of slots at Gatwick.

Counsel: Sylvester Summers, Jr. for Cleveland

Answer of The City of San Jose, California and the San Jose International Airport to Motion of Continental Airlines, Inc.

San Jose urges the Department promptly to institute a carrier selection proceeding and therein to grant American Airlines,Inc. a designation to provide non-stop service between San Jose, California and London, England.

• Exhibit SJC-1: AMERICAN'S LONDON SERVICE WILL LINK SAN JOSE WITH THE UNITED STATES' LARGEST MARKETS IN EUROPE AND ASIA

• Exhibit SJC-2: SAN JOSE'S LONDON TRAFFIC IS MORE THAN 5 TIMES THE SIZE OF CLEVELAND'S LOCAL O&D (Based on Calendar Year 1997 Statistics)

• Exhibit SJC-3: THE SAN JOSE - LONDON LOCAL O&D TRAFFIC IS ESTIMATED FOR 1997 TO BE AT LEAST 152,000 PASSENGERS (Calendar Year 1997)

• Exhibit SJC-4: SAN JOSE ACCOUNTS FOR 21.3% OF THE SAN JOSE/SAN FRANCISCO - TOKYO LOCAL O&D (Calendar Year 1997)

• Exhibit SJC-5: SAN JOSE CAPTURES 29% OF THE TOTAL BAY AREA TRAFFIC IN DOMESTIC MARKETS WHERE IT HAS          NON-STOP SERVICE

• Exhibit SJC-6: 44% OF THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA'S POPULATION LIVE IN THE SAN JOSE SERVICE AREA

• Exhibit SJC-7: SAN JOSE'S SANTA CLARA COUNTY IS A SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER INCOME MARKET THAN CLEVELAND'S CUYAHOGA COUNTY

Counsel: Shaw Pittman, Robert Cohn, 202.663.8060

Continental Airlines, Inc., Continental Express, Inc. and Viacao Aerea Sao Paulo, S.A. (VASP)

Counsel:  Continental, Bruce Keiner and Continental Express, Charles F. Donley II

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