Pinnacle Airlines, Inc.

OST-2008-0005 - Exemption - Atlanta-Cozumel

January 7, 2008

Application for an Exemption

Pinnacle Airlines Inc. d/b/a Delta Connection applies for an exemption from 49 U.S.C. § 41101 to authorize Pinnacle to engage in scheduled foreign air transportation of persons, property and mail between Atlanta, Georgia and Cozumel, Mexico. Pinnacle requests that this authority remain in effect for a period of two years or for such longer period as the Department sees fit to grant.

Pinnacle plans to operate Atlanta-Cozumel scheduled service with 76-seat CRJ-900 aircraft from its existing fleet. The route is currently served by Delta Connection carrier Atlantic Southeast Airlines. Pinnacle will assume the schedule operated by ASA pursuant to a capacity purchase agreement with Delta Air Lines, Inc. As an existing Delta Connection carrier, Atlanta-Cozumel scheduled service is well within Pinnacle's established scope of operations.

Counsel: Garofalo Goerlich, Gary Garofalo, 202-776-3970

Filed January 7, 2008 | Issued February 13, 2008

Notice of Action Taken | Word

Scheduled foreign air transportation of persons, property, and mail between Atlanta, Georgia, and Cozumel, Mexico.

Pinnacle states that it is authorized to represent that it will replace the Delta Connection CRJ-700 aircraft service currently operated by Atlantic Southeast Airlines in the Atlanta-Cozumel market, with Pinnacle’s larger CRJ-900 aircraft, and will provide the service under Delta’s “DL*” designator code as a Delta Connection carrier, beginning no later than July 1, 2008. Pinnacle further states that it will provide year-round service in the market, except for certain peak periods when its service will be replaced with Delta’s mainline service.

By: Paul Gretch