OST-95-495 / United Air Lines / Certificate Amendment South America / Answer of Delta to Amendment No. 2 / January 21, 1998
Application of
UNITED AIR LINES, INC. / Docket
OST-95-495 (formerly 48295)for a Certificate Amendment (South America)
ANSWER OF DELTA AIR LINES, INC.
TO AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO
APPLICATION OF UNITED AIR LINES, INC.
Delta Air Lines, Inc. ("Delta") hereby submits this answer to
Amendment No. 2 to Application of United Air Lines, Inc. ("United"), filed on January 7, 1997.Delta has filed an application for the certificate authority to implement certain services between the United States and Latin America. United filed the instant Amendment, in response to Delta's application, seeking to serve "those points in South America [United] is not currently authorized to serve, " including points in Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Paraguay. Delta's certificate application also includes requests for authority to serve each of those four countries.
Answer of Delta Air Lines, Inc.
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Both the United and Delta requests are generally consistent with the applicable bilateral agreements; however, in some instances designation and/or frequency limitations may apply to U.S. carrier services. To the extent that the Department concludes that the two applications in Dockets
OST-97-3218 and OST-95-495 are mutually exclusive, the Department should consolidate the mutually exclusive portions of the applications for contemporaneous consideration.Respectfully submitted,
Robert E. Cohn
Alexander Van der Bellen
Shaw Pittman
2300 N Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20037
(202) 663-8060
Counsel for DELTA AIR LINES, INC.