Federal Express Corporation

OST-2008-0105 - Exemption - Oakland-Guadalajara/Monterrey, Lafayette-Guadalajara

March 14, 2008

Application for an Exemption and Amendment to Certificate Authority

Federal Express Corporation hereby applies pursuant to 49 U.S.C. § 40109 for an exemption from 49 U.S.C. § 41101 and from the Department's rules to the extent necessary, authorizing scheduled foreign air transportation of property and mail (1) between Oakland, California, on the one hand, and Guadalajara and Monterrey, Mexico, on the other hand, as of April 1, 2008, and (2) between Lafayette, Louisiana and Guadalajara, Mexico as of May 1, 2008. FedEx Express requests the exemption authority be effective for a minimum two-year period.

FedEx Express proposes to operate year round service commencing with four weekly, nonstop all-cargo flights on an Oakland-Guadalajara-Monterrey-Oakland route from April 1 through August 31, 2008 using Boeing 727 freighter aircraft with a net payload capacity of 45,000 pounds. After August 31, 2008, FedEx Express' operating pattern on this route will be one monthly all-cargo frequency, using the same aircraft with the same net payload capacity. For the Lafayette-Guadalajara route, FedEx proposes operating four weekly, nonstop, roundtrip all-cargo flights year round starting May 1, 2008, also using Boeing 727 freighter aircraft with a net payload capacity of 45,000 pounds.

FedEx Express also applies pursuant to 49 U.S.C. § 41102 for an amendment to its Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity for Route 568 to engage in scheduled foreign air transportation of property and mail between a point or points in the United States and a point or points in Mexico.

Should the Department decide to grant our exemption request immediately, but require more time to consider our request to amend the certificate of authority, FedEx Express asks that the Department promptly grant the exemption request and subsequently address the certificate authority request as it has done in other similar actions. See. e.g., Notice of Action Taken in OST-2005-22243 and OST-2005-22331 (Dec. 12, 2005).

Counsel: FedEx, James Davis, 901-434-8600, jdavis4@fedex.com

March 21, 2008

Re: Polling Results

Federal Express Corporation has polled all carriers upon whom the application in the above-referenced matter was served, and no carrier has any objection to the application.

Counsel: FedEx, James Davis

Filed March 14, 2008 | Issued March 26, 2008

Notice of Action Taken

Scheduled foreign air transportation of property and mail between (1) Oakland, California, on the one hand, and Guadalajara and Monterrey, Mexico, on the other hand; and (2) between Lafayette, Louisiana, and Guadalajara, Mexico.

Federal Express included a request to amend and reissue its U.S.-Mexico certificate to so that it would provide for authority to serve between “a point or points in the United States and a point or points in Mexico,” or, in the alternative, so that it would include the new points requested here under exemption authority. We will handle the certificate request separately.

By: Paul Gretch