[Federal Register: June 20, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 120)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Office of the Secretary
Notice of Applications for Certificates of Public Convenience and
Necessity and Foreign Air Carrier Permits Filed Under Subpart B
(Formerly Subpart Q) During the Week Ending April 18, 2008
The following Applications for Certificates of Public Convenience
and Necessity and Foreign Air Carrier Permits were filed under Subpart
B (formerly Subpart Q) of the Department of Transportation's Procedural
Regulations (See 14 CFR 301.201 et seq.). The due date for Answers,
Conforming Applications, or Motions to Modify Scope are set forth below
for each application. Following the Answer period DOT may process the
application by expedited procedures. Such procedures may consist of the
adoption of a show-cause order, a tentative order, or in appropriate
cases a final order without further proceedings.
Docket Number: DOT-OST-1999-6345.
Date Filed: April 14, 2008.
Due Date for Answers, Conforming Applications, or Motion to Modify
Scope: May 5, 2008.
Description: Application of United Parcel Service Co. (``UPS'')
requesting renewal of its certificate authorizing UPS to engage in the
scheduled foreign air transportation of property and mail between
Miami, Florida and Los Angeles, California; via intermediate points in
Colombia, Ecuador, and Panama; and the coterminal points Manaus,
Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Recife, Porto Alegre, Belem, Belo
Horizonte, and Salvador, Brazil.
Docket Number: DOT-OST-2008-0140.
Date Filed: April 16, 2008.
Due Date for Answers, Conforming Applications, or Motion to Modify
Scope: May 7, 2008.
Description: Application of Qantas Airways Limited (``Qantas'')
requesting an amendment of its foreign air carrier permit in order to
engage in scheduled foreign air transportation of persons, property and
mail between the United States and Australia to the full extent
authorized by the new Air Transport Services Agreement between the
United States and Australia, to which the United States and Australia
reached a referendum agreement on February 14, 2008. Qantas also
requests an exemption to the extent necessary to enable it to provide
the service authorized by the new Agreement pending issuance of its
amended foreign air carrier permit. Qantas seeks permit and interim
exemption authority to engage in: (i) Foreign scheduled and charter air
transportation of persons, property and mail from points behind
Australia via Australia and intermediate points to a point or points in
the United States and beyond; (ii) foreign scheduled and charter
transportation of property between any point or points in the United
States and any other point or points; (iii) other charters pursuant to
prior approval.
Docket Number: DOT-OST-2008-0142.
Date Filed: April 18, 2008.
Due Date for Answers, Conforming Applications, or Motion to Modify
Scope: May 9, 2008.
Description: Application of Air Jamaica Limited (``Air Jamaica'')
requesting an amended foreign air carrier permit authorizing it to
engage in (i) scheduled foreign air transportation of persons, property
and mail from
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points behind Jamaica via Jamaica and intermediate points to a point or
points in the United States and beyond; (ii) charter foreign air
transportation of persons, property and mail between any point or
points in Jamaica and any point or points in the United States; (iii)
charter foreign air transportation of persons, property and mail
between any point or points in the United States and any point or
points in a third country or countries, provided that, except with
respect to cargo charters, such service constitutes part of a
continuous operation, with or without a change of aircraft, that
includes service to Jamaica for the purpose of carrying local traffic
between Jamaica and the United States; (iv) other charters pursuant to
the prior approval requirement; and (v) transportation authorized by
any additional route rights made available to Jamaican carriers in the
future, provided that Air Jamaica has furnished the Department with
evidence that it holds a homeland license for that new service before
its commencement.
Docket Number: DOT-OST-2008-0144.
Date Filed: April 18, 2008.
Due Date for Answers, Conforming Applications, or Motion to Modify
Scope: May 9, 2008.
Description: Application of Futura Gael requesting issuance of a
foreign air carrier permit to the full extent authorized by the Air
Transport Agreement between the United States and the European
Community and the Member States of the European Community to enable it
to engage in: (i) Foreign scheduled and charter air transportation of
persons, property and mail from any point or points behind any Member
State of the European Union via any point or points in any Member State
and via intermediate points to any point or points in the United States
and beyond; (ii) foreign scheduled and charter air transportation of
persons, property and mail between any point or points in the United
States and any point or points in any member of the European Common
Aviation Area; (iii) foreign scheduled and charter cargo air
transportation between any point or points in the United States and any
other point or points; (iv) other charters pursuant to the prior
approval requirements; and (v) transportation authorized by any
additional route rights made available to European Community carriers
in the future. Futura Gael also requests a corresponding exemption to
the extent necessary to enable it to provide the services described
above pending issuance of its foreign air carrier permit and such
additional or other relief.
Docket Number: DOT-OST-2008-0147.
Date Filed: April 18, 2008.
Due Date for Answers, Conforming Applications, or Motion to Modify
Scope: May 9, 2008.
Description: Application of Futura International Airway, S.A.
(``Futura'') requesting issuance of a foreign air carrier permit to the
full extent authorized by the Air Transport Agreement between the
United States and the European Community and the Member States of the
European Community to enable it to engage in: (i) Foreign scheduled and
charter air transportation of persons, property and mail from any point
or points behind any Member State of the European Union via any point
or points in any Member State and via intermediate points to any point
or points in the United States and beyond; (ii) foreign scheduled and
charter air transportation of persons, property and mail between any
point or points in the United States and any point or points in any
member of the European Common Aviation Area; (iii) foreign scheduled
and charter cargo air transportation between any point or points in the
United States and any other point or points; (iv) other charters
pursuant to the prior approval requirements; and (v) transportation
authorized by any additional route rights made available to European
Community carriers in the future. Futura also requests a corresponding
exemption to the extent necessary to enable it to provide the services
described above pending issuance of its foreign air carrier permit and
such additional or other relief.
Renee V. Wright,
Program Manager, Docket Operations, Federal Register Liaison.
[FR Doc. E8-13984 Filed 6-19-08; 8:45 am]
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