[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 26 (Wednesday, February 8, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7617-7618]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-3083]



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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Office of the Secretary


New Route Opportunities (U.S.-Peru); Notice

    By this Notice we invite certificate applications from U.S. air 
carriers interested in providing combination and all-cargo services in 
the U.S.-Peru market.
    Under the 1986 Air Transport Agreement between the United States 
and Peru there are no limits on the number of U.S. carriers that may be 
designated to provide scheduled combination or all-cargo services. The 
number of frequencies these carriers could operate, however, was 
limited to 16.5 weekly narrow body frequencies for combination services 
and five weekly narrow body frequencies for all-cargo services. By an 
Exchange of Notes on January 13, 1995, the Agreement was amended to 
increase the number of frequencies available to U.S. carriers for the 
operation of scheduled combination and all-cargo services. Under the 
amended Agreement, U.S. carriers may operate a maximum of 21 weekly 
narrow-body frequencies or their wide-body equivalent for combination 
services; and eight frequencies per week with narrow-body aircraft or 
their wide-body equivalent for all-cargo air services, effective 
January 15, 1995.1

    \1\1.5 narrow-body aircraft (DC8, MD80, B707, B727, B737, B757 
or similar aircraft) is considered equivalent to one wide-body 
aircraft (L1011, DC10, A300, B747SP, B767 or similar aircraft). Two 
narrow-body aircraft is considered equivalent to one B747-100 or 
similar aircraft.
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    There has been no change to the route schedules. This means that 
designated U.S. carriers may provide combination services from the 
United States via intermediate points to Lima, and beyond to: La Paz, 
Bolivia and beyond to Asuncion, Paraguay (to be operated as one route); 
Santiago, Chile; and Buenos Aires, Argentina (Santiago and Buenos Aires 
to be served on separate flights beyond Lima).2 Designated U.S. 
all-cargo airlines are permitted to operate between Miami and Lima via 
the intermediate points Panama City, Panama; Guayaquil, Ecuador; and 
Bogota and Cali, Colombia.3

    \2\Designated U.S. carriers for combination services may operate 
via the following intermediate points: Panama City, Panama; 
Guayaquil and Quito, Ecuador; and on a blind-sector basis Bogota and 
Cali, Colombia.
    \3\Service to Guayaquil, Bogota and Cali may be operated on a 
blind-sector basis only.
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    American Airlines currently holds the 16.5 narrow-body frequencies 
for combination services, and Challenge Air holds the 5 weekly narrow-
body frequencies for all-cargo services.4 Therefore, 4.5 narrow-
body combination and 3 narrow-body all-cargo frequencies are available 
new long-term allocations.5

    \4\American Airlines was awarded certificate authority to serve 
Peru by Order 90-5-5. It has an application pending for renewal of 
its certificate in Docket 48343. Challenge was granted exemption 
authority to serve Peru in 1987 (Order 87-2-38) and has been 
allocated the five available all-cargo frequencies. (See Orders 87-
7-52, 89-7-42, 91-6-38 and 93-3-38.) Challenge has a pending 
application in Docket 50009 for renewal of its underlying authority 
and its frequency allocation.
    \5\By Order 94-12-21, the Department allocated United Air Lines, 
Inc. the available 4.5 weekly combination frequencies on a temporary 
basis for the period January 15, 1995 through April 15, 1995, while 
we process a case for longer-term authority.
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    Carriers interested in using these new opportunities should file 
certificate applications including attendant requests for frequency 
allocations within 14 calendar days of the date of this notice. Answers 
to any applications filed will be due seven calendar days thereafter; 
replies to any answers filed will be due within five calendar days 
after the answer date.
    Except for the procedural dates, certificate applications should 
conform to Part 302, Subpart Q. Applications should be filed with the 
Department's Docket Section, Room PL-401, 400 Seventh Street SW., 
Washington, DC 20590. Further procedures for acting on the applications 
filed, if necessary, will [[Page 7618]] be established in the future by 
Department notice or order.


    Dated: February 2, 1995.
Paul L. Gretch,
Director, Office of International Aviation.
[FR Doc. 95-3083 Filed 2-7-95; 8:45 am]
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