 

			  UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

		        DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

			  OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

			          WASHINGTON, D.C.

Issued by the Department of Transportation on April 19, 2005

NOTICE OF ACTION TAKEN DISMISSING APPLICATIONS—VARIOUS DOCKETS

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This serves as notice to the public of the actions described below,
taken on the date shown above by the Department official indicated (no
additional confirming order will be issued in these matters).

The carriers listed below have applied for various forms of authority or
relief under Title 49 of the United States Code in order to perform the
air transportation activities described.  Each application has either
been withdrawn by the applicant or otherwise become moot.  Therefore,
under authority assigned by the Department in its Regulations, 14 CFR
§§ 385.3 and 385.13, we find that these applications should be
dismissed.

Docket			 Description of Application	

OST-1996-1417	American Airlines, Inc., filed January 15, 2003.  Renew
exemption to engage in

foreign air transportation of persons, property, and mail between Miami,
Florida and

Paris, France.  By Order 2002-5-25, the Department granted American
broad U.S.- 

France certificate authority.  That certificate action encompasses the
point-specific 

exemption renewal request in Docket OST-1996-1417, and, thus, the
exemption

renewal application is moot.

OST-1998-3419	American Airlines, Inc., filed March 10, 2003.  Temporary
dormancy waiver for a

	period of approximately one month, with respect to two Dallas/Ft.
Worth-Tokyo

frequencies.  By Order 2003-4-18, the Department issued a blanket
dormancy waiver

for U.S. combination carriers until April 1, 2004.  That order
encompassed the authority

requested by American in its request for a temporary waiver for one
month, and, thus, the

one-month request became moot.  

OST-2003-14523	American Airlines, Inc. and Iberia Lineas Aereas de
Espana, S.A. (“Iberia”), filed February 13, 2003.  Joint application
for amendment of their statement of authorization to permit American to
place Iberia’s code on flights that American operates between New York
and Barcelona and also, to permit Iberia to place American’s code on
flights that Iberia operates between Barcelona, on the one hand, and
Malaga and Palma de Mallorca, on the other.  On February 27, 2003, the
joint applicants withdrew their application.

OST-1996-1118	Arrow Air, Inc., filed March 16, 2001.  Renew exemption to
engage in foreign air 

transportation of property and mail between Miami, Florida, and
Montevideo, Uruguay.

On March 19, 2001, Arrow withdrew its application.

OST-1999-6587	Continental Airlines, Inc., filed December 1, 1999. 
Application for exemption to

	provide code-share services between Newark and Johannesburg, South
Africa, via

the intermediate point Milan, Italy, with Alitalia, for an indefinite
period.  American

filed an answer to the application.  On September 24, 2003, Continental
withdrew its

application. 

OST-2000-7655	Continental Airlines, Inc., filed October 11, 2000. 
Petition for reconsideration

OST-2000-7186	of Order 2000-9-21. The City of Houston and the Greater
Houston Partnership and Delta

OST-2000-7104	Air Lines filed answers to the petition.  By letter dated
June 6, 2001, Continental

OST-1997-3218	withdrew its petition.



OST-2004-19165	Continental Airlines, Inc., filed September 20, 2004. 
Exemption to engage in

foreign air transportation of persons, property, and mail between points
in the

United States and Tripoli, Libya, via Amsterdam, as well as integration
authority to

combine this exemption authority with Continental’s other exemption
and certificate

authority.  By Notice of Action Taken, dated March 1, 2005, in Docket
OST-2005-

20122, the Department granted Continental code-share exemption authority
encom-

passing the above-requested authority.  By letter dated March 22, 2005,
Continental

withdrew its application.

OST-2001-9953	Joint Application of Continental Airlines, Inc.,
Transbrasil S/A Linhas Aéreas, and Interbrasil Star, filed June 18,
2001.  Statements of Authorization pursuant to Part 212 to provide
U.S.-Brazil and U.S.-Argentina code-share services.  The City of Houston
and the Greater Houston Partnership and United Air Lines filed
pleadings.  By letter dated August 17, 2001, the joint applicants
withdrew their joint request for statements of authorization.

OST-1997-2708	Delta Air Lines, Inc., filed September 26, 2000.  Renewal
of exemption authority

OST-2967	to authorize it to continue to provide scheduled foreign air
transportation of persons,

property, and mail between the United States and various Brazilian
points, pursuant to

a code-share arrangement with Transbrasil S/A Linhas Aereas.  On June 7,
2004, counsel 

for Delta informed the Department that Delta no longer had an
arrangement with

Transbrasil and the application for renewal could be dismissed.

OST-2002-12161	Delta Air Lines, Inc., filed April 22, 2001.  Exemption
to engage in foreign

air transportation of persons, property, and mail between the United
States and

Algiers, Algeria.  By Notice of Action Taken dated March 1, 2005, in
Docket

OST-2005-20145, the Department granted Delta blanket code-share
exemption 

authority encompassing the above-requested authority.  By letter dated
March 16, 

2005, counsel for Delta withdrew the application.

OST-2004-19232	Northwest Airlines, Inc., filed September 27, 2004. 
Exemption to engage in

foreign air transportation of persons, property, and mail between points
in the

United States and Tripoli, Libya, via Amsterdam pursuant to a code-share
arrange-

ment with KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.  By letter filed January 11, 2005,
Northwest

withdrew its application. 

OST-2000-7339	US Airways, Inc., filed application February 5, 2004. 
Renewal of exemptions

OST-2002-12481	to operate scheduled foreign air transportation of
persons, property and mail between

OST-2002-13854	Boston, Massachusetts, and Nassau, Bahamas; between New
York (LGA), New York, and Nassau, Bahamas; and between Washington, DC,
and Nassau, Bahamas.  Responding to an application by the carrier in a
separate docket, we granted US Airways broad authority to provide
service between points in the United States and the Bahamas.  See Notice
of Action Taken, dated July 26, 2004 (Docket OST-2001-9766).  By letter
dated August 9, 2004, US Airways withdrew its applications for renewal
in the listed dockets.  

OST-2001-9952	Interbrasil Star, filed June 18, 2001.  Exemption
authority to carry Continental’s code on flights operated wholly
between points in Brazil carrying Continental traffic that originates
and terminates in the United States.  The City of Houston and the
Greater Houston Partnership and United Air Lines filed pleadings.  By
letter dated August 17, 2001, Interbrasil withdrew its application.

OST-2001-9951	Transbrasil S/A Linhas Aéreas, filed June 18, 2001. 
Exemption to provide scheduled foreign air transportation of persons,
property, and mail between points in Brazil and various U.S. points. 
The City of Houston and the Greater Houston Partnership and United Air
Lines filed pleadings.  By letter dated August 17, 2001, Transbrasil
withdrew its application.

OST-2003-16354		Transportes Aereo Mercantiles Panamericanos S.A., filed
October 20, 2003.  

Exemption authority to engage in scheduled air transportation of
property and mail between Colombia, on the one hand, and the United
States, on the other, via Lima, Peru, in both directions.  Arrow Air,
Inc. and Atlas Air, Inc. filed pleadings.  On November 12, 2003, the
applicant withdrew its application.

DISPOSITION

Action:  We dismiss the applications as described above.

Action taken by:   Paul L. Gretch, Director	

		      Office of International Aviation	

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Persons entitled to petition the Department for review of the action set
forth in this Notice under the Department’s regulations, 14 CFR §
385.30, may file their petitions within seven (7) days after the date of
issuance of this Notice.  

The actions set forth in this Notice shall be effective and become the
actions of the Department of Transportation upon expiration of the above
period unless within such period a petition for Department review is
filed or the Department gives 

notice that it will review one or more actions on its own motion.  The
filing of a petition for review with respect to one of the dismissed
items will not alter the effectiveness of this Notice with respect to
the others.

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