TACA International Airlines, S.A. / Lineas Aereas Costarricenses S.A. / AVIATECA S.A. / Nicaraguense de Aviacion, S.A. / TACA de Honduras S.A. de C.V. / Trans American Airlines, S.A.

Order 2005-1-22
OST-04-17355 - Registration of Trade Name

Issued and Served January 25, 2005

Final Order

We have decided to finalize our tentative decision in Order 2004-10-5 and grant the TACA Group carriers an exemption under 49 U.S.C. § 40109, to the extent necessary to permit them to register under 14 C.F.R. Part 215 for their collective use the trade name "TACA" and use the designator code "TA" for all of their services to/from the United States, for a period of one year, and subject to the consumer-related disclosure and other conditions, set forth in that order. In taking this action, we affirm our tentative finding that the grant of this authority, as conditioned, would be in the public interest, providing important public benefits by increasing consumer awareness of TACA Group services and by advancing our aviation relationships with TACA Group carriers' homelands. The TACA Group's plan would increase consumer awareness of the Group's services, and this could benefit the traveling public by promoting competition in the affected markets.

By: Karan Bhatia