International Air Transport Association Passenger Tariff Coordinating Conference

Order 2007-7-24
OST-2006-26409

Issued July 23, 2008 | Served July 28, 2008

Order Amending Exemption

lATA has filed additional applications to broaden the scope of the exemption for Flex Fares resolutions:

Within South West Pacific: Flex fares would be established for first, business and economy class normal fares and for "PEX" discount fares, with an interline premium often percent.

Between South West Pacific and Traffic Conference: Flex fares would be established for first, business and economy class normal fares and for "PEX" discount fares, with an interline premium of seven percent.

In its applications, lATA states that the broadening the exemption is justified by substantially the same reasons the Department relied on in Order 2006-12-24 granting the original exemption and subsequent orders expanding the exemption, where the Department found that fares for travel within these regions typically present no public interest concerns justifying pre-implementation review of agreements limited to such travel.

We will grant the expanded exemptions as requested, under the same conditions. lATA fares for travel between non-U.S. markets typically present no public interest concerns involving U.S. passengers under U.S. aviation policy or U.S. antitrust laws to justify our review of agreements limited to such travel. We find that an expansion.of the Flex Fare mechanism to include lATA interline fares for travel in the additional non-U.S. markets is consistent with the public interest for the reasons stated in Order 2006-12-24.

By: Michael Reynolds

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