Expanded Authority for Foreign Air Carriers from the European Union

OST-2007-28126

Served May 3, 2007

Notice

By this Notice we invite foreign air carriers from the European Union to apply for Department economic authority to conduct operations to and from the United States under the recentlysigned U.S.-EU Air Transport Agreement.

To facilitate a smooth transition to the new regime, we invite foreign air carriers from the EU to file applications for initial or amended Department authority to conduct services provided for under the new Agreement, for flight operations to commence on or after March 30, 2008.

We anticipate handling these EU carrier requests on an expedited basis to ensure that affected EU carriers may receive the authority available to them under the new Agreement as quickly as possible. To that end, we intend to process requests for this authority under the "streamlining" procedures set out in our August 23, 2005, Notice, in Docket OST-2005-22228, in which we announced several steps designed to simplify our regulatory procedures for licensing foreign (and U.S.) air carriers.

By: Paul Gretch