Southern Air, Inc.

OST-2006-25478 - Certificate - US-World Cargo Points
OST-2005-22228 - Streamlining Regulatory Procedures for Licensing US and Foreign Air Carriers

July 26, 2006

Application for a Certificate

Southern Air, Inc. applies, pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 41102, Subpart B of the Department's Rules of Practice, and the Department's August 23, 2005 notice on streamlining regulatory procedures, for a certificate authorizing it to provide scheduled air transportation of property and mail between a point or points in the U.S. via intermediate points and a point or points in the Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Luxembourg, Austria, Iceland, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Germany, Jordan, Singapore, Taiwan, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, New Zealand, Brunei, Malaysia, Aruba, Chile, Uzbekistan, Korea, Peru, Netherland Antilles, Romania, Italy, U.A.E., Pakistan, Bahrain, Argentina, Qatar, Tanzania, Dominican Republic, Portugal, Slovakia Republic, Namibia, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Turkey, Gambia, Nigeria, Morocco, Rwanda, Malta, Benin, Senegal, Poland, Oman, France, Sri Lanka, Uganda, Cape Verde, Samoa, Jamaica, Tonga, Albania, Madagascar, Gabon, Indonesia, Uruguay, India, Paraguay, Maldives, Ethiopia, Thailand, Mali, Canada, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cameroon, Chad and Australia and beyond.

Southern also requests that its certificate authorize it to provide air transportation of property and mail between a point or points in Luxembourg, Iceland, Czech Republic, Germany, Singapore, El Salvador, Guatemala, Slovakia Republic, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Gambia, Nigeria, Slovakia Republic, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Gambia, Nigeria, Morocco, Rwanda, Malta, Benin, Senegal, Poland, Oman, France, Uganda, Cape Verde, Samoa, Tonga, Albania, Madagascar, Gabon, Indonesia, Uruguay, India, Paraguay, Maldives, Ethiopia, Thailand, Mali, Canada, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cameroon and Chad pursuant to seventh-freedom all-cargo rights granted in open skies agreements with these countries.

Southern also asks that it be awarded certificate authority between a point or points in the United States and Hong Kong and a point or points in the U.K.

Finally, Southern also requests the same blanket route integration authority granted to other carriers by Order 2006-1-1, asks that the authority requested be effective for an indefinite period and asks that this application be processed by expedited non-hearing procedures pursuant to Subpart B of the Department's Rules of Practice.

Southern holds a certificate of public convenience and necessity and exemptions authorizing it to engage in interstate and foreign charter and scheduled air transportation of property and mail. See, e.g., Order 1999-11-17 (Docket OST-1999-5670) and Order 2000-2-8 (Dockets OST-1999-5670 and OST-1999-6591) and Notice of Action Taken, May 8, 2006 (Docket OST-2006-24703).

Counsel: Crowell & Moring, Bruce Keiner, 202-624-2615, rbkeiner@crowell.com

Order 2007-7-4
OST-2004-19398 - Tradewinds - Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity - US-"Open Skies" Countries
OST-2005-22552 - ABX Air - Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity - Foreign Air Transportation of Cargo and Mail
OST-2004-19189 - Centurion - Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity - US-Open Skies Countries
OST-2006-25478 - Southern Air - Certificate - US-World Cargo Points
OST-2006-26419 - Cargo 360 - Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity - US-Open Skies Countries
OST-2007-27790 - Blanket Open-Skies Authority

Issued May 7, 2007 | Served July 10, 2007

Order Issuing Certificates - All-Cargo - Bookmarked

By this order we grant certificate authority to the above-captioned carriers to provide all-cargo service to all of our foreign aviation partners that have entered into an open-skies agreement with the United States where that agreement is being applied.

The authority granted by this order supersedes any orders previously issued or actions taken by the Department to the extent such orders or actions grant the carrier operating rights to an open-skies partner. For those services currently operated under an exemption, the exemption will terminate upon the effectiveness of the attached certificate of public convenience and necessity. Currently authorized certificate authority to serve an open-skies partner will be realigned such that all authority held by the carrier to serve markets covered by a currently applied open-skies agreement is consolidated into a single certificate.

1. We dismiss, as moot, the requests of ABX Air, Inc., Amerijet International, Inc., and Kalitta Air, L.L.C. for blanket route integration;
2. We defer action on of the remainder of the requests of ABX Air, Inc., Air Transport International, LLC, Cargo 360, Inc., Custom Air Transport, Inc., and Southern Air, Inc.

By: Paul Gretch