Northwest Airlines, Inc. and Atlantic Southeast Airlines, Inc.-Delta Air Lines, Inc.

Order 2006-10-13
OST-2006-24984 - ASA and Delta - Los Angeles-Mexico Routes
OST-2006-25251 - Northwest - Memphis-Cozumel; Detroit-Zihuatanejo/Ixtapa

Issued October 26, 2006 | Served October 31, 2006

Order on Review

By this order, we grant the joint petition filed by Atlantic Southeast Airlines, Inc., and Delta Air Lines, Inc., in Docket OST-2006-24984, and the petition filed by Northwest Airlines, Inc., in Docket OST-2006-25251, for limited review of staff action with respect to certain startup conditions imposed on certain of the carriers' U.S.-Mexico route authority; and, on review, we grant in substantial part the relief requested.

We grant the joint petition of Atlantic Southeast Airlines, Inc., and Delta Air Lines, Inc., for limited review of staff action, in Docket OST-2006-24984, and on review, grant, to the extent set forth in this order, the relief requested, and amend the conditions section of the Notice of Action Taken dated July 5, 2006, in Docket OST-2006-24984, to read as follows:

The U.S.-Mexico exemption authority granted is subject to the dormancy notice requirements set forth in condition 7 of Appendix A of Order 1988-10-2. The exemption authority granted to Delta is limited to code-share services only. The dormancy notice period for the exemption authority granted will begin on the carriers' proposed startup date for these services, as follows:

December 1, 2006, for the Los Angeles-Loreto and Los Angeles-La Paz services; February 1, 2007, for the Los Angeles-Hermosillo and Los Angeles-Mazatlan services; March 6, 2007, for the Los Angeles-Torreon services; March 13, 2007, for the Los Angeles-Manzanillo and Los Angeles-Zacatecas services; and March 15, 2007, for the Los Angeles-Culiacan services.

We grant the petition of Northwest Airlines, Inc., for limited review of staff action, in Docket OST-2006-25251, and on review, grant, to the extent set forth in this order, the relief requested, and amend the conditions section of the Notice of Action Taken dated July 11, 2006, in Docket OST-2006-25251, to read as follows:

The U.S.-Mexico exemption authority granted is subject to the dormancy notice requirements set forth in condition 7 of Appendix A of Order 1988-10-2. The dormancy notice period for the exemption authority granted will begin on the carrier's proposed startup dates for these services, as follows: February 17, 2007, for the Memphis-Cozumel services, and January 20, 2007, for the Detroit-Zihuatanejo/Ixtapa services.

To the extent not granted, we deny all other requests for relief in Dockets OST-2006-24984 and OST-2006-26251.

By: Andrew Steinberg