Pinnacle Airlines, Inc.

Order 2007-10-27
OST-2007-28867 - Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity - US-Canada
OST-2007-28868 - Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity - Foreign - US-Canada

Issued and Served October 24, 2007

Order Issuing Interstate Certificate Authority

Pinnacle now seeks certificate authority to operate 16 76-seat CRJ-900 aircraft on behalf of Delta Airlines, Inc. pursuant to an Airline Services Agreement. The air carrier intends to commence operations under the agreement with Delta on or around December 1, 2007. Operations under the Delta code-share agreement will initiate from bases at Salt Lake City and/or Los Angeles International Airport. Ultimately, Pinnacle will operate 16 operational patterns under the Delta agreement.

The Department has carefully reviewed Pinnacle’s fitness to undertake the large (76 seat) aircraft operations at issue. No special issues regarding the applicant have come to our attention and no objections to the application have been filed. Moreover, we note that Pinnacle’s commuter operations, using aircraft with up to 50 seats, have been conducted satisfactorily under its current ownership and management. In light of these circumstances, we have decided that neither an oral evidentiary hearing nor a show cause proceeding is necessary for us to make a decision in this case.

We find that Pinnacle Airlines, Inc. d/b/a Northwest Airlink d/b/a Delta Connection, is fit, willing, and able to engage in interstate and foreign scheduled air transportation of persons, property, and mail.

We issue a certificate of public convenience and necessity to Pinnacle Airlines, Inc. d/b/a Northwest Airlink d/b/a Delta Connection to engage in interstate air transportation.

We cancel the commuter authority issued to Pinnacle Airlines, Inc. d/b/a Northwest Airlink d/b/a Delta Connection, by Order 1985-5-125.

By: Michael Reynolds