[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 249 (Tuesday, December 30, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 67931]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-33903]



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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION


Notice of Application for Certificates of Public Convenience and 
Necessity and Foreign Air Carrier Permits Filed Under Subpart Q During 
the Week Ending December 19, 1997

    The following Applications for Certificates of Public Convenience 
and Necessity and Foreign Air Carrier Permits were filed under Subpart 
Q of the Department of Transportation's Procedural Regulations (See 14 
CFR 302.1701 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: OST-97-3270.
    Date Filed: December 19, 1997.
    Due Date for Answers, Conforming Applications, or Motion to Modify 
Scope: January 16, 1998.
    Description: Application of WestJet Express Airlines, Inc., 
pursuant to 49 U.S.C., 41102 and Subpart Q of the Regulations, request 
a certificate of public convenience and necessity authorizing WestJet 
to engage in interstate charter air transportation of person, property 
and mail. WestJet also requests that this application be processed 
through the use of expedited non-hearing procedures, and that if 
possible, the Department proceed directly to a Final Order in this 
matter.
    Docket Number: OST-97-3273.
    Date Filed: December 19, 1997.
    Due Date for Answers, Conforming Applications, or Motion to Modify 
Scope: January 16, 1998
    Description: Application of Continental Airlines, Inc., pursuant to 
49 U.S.C. 41108, 41102 and Subpart Q of the Regulations, applies for a 
certificate of public convenience and necessity authorizing Continental 
to provide scheduled foreign air transportation of persons, property 
and mail between Houston, Texas and Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo 
Horizonte, Brasilia, Curitiba and Porto Alegre, Brazil, and to combine 
this authority with Continental's other exemption and certificate 
authority consistent with applicable international agreements. 
Continental also asks for an allocation of the seven U.S.-Brazil 
combination frequencies which become available October 1, 1998, 
pursuant to the U.S.-Brazil Memorandum of Consultations signed November 
18, 1997.
Paulette V. Twine,
Documentary Services.
[FR Doc. 97-33903 Filed 12-29-97; 8:45 am]
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