[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 37 (Wednesday, February 25, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9624-9625]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-4795]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION


Notice of Applications for Certificates of Public Convenience and 
Necessity and Foreign Air Carrier Permits Filed Under Subpart Q During 
the Week Ending February 13, 1998

    The following Applications for Certificates of Public Convenience 
and Necessity and Foreign Air Carrier Permits were filed under Subpart 
Q of the Department's Procedural Regulations (See 14 CFR 302.170 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-1997-3218.
    Date Filed: February 9, 1998.
    Due Date for Answers, Conforming Applications, or Motions to Modify 
Scope: March 9, 1998.
    Description: Supplement to the Application of Delta Air Lines, Inc. 
submitting Request for Frequency Allocation and Request for Pendente 
Lite Authority.

    Docket Number: OST-1996-1091.
    Date Filed: February 10, 1998.
    Due Date for Answers, Conforming Applications, or Motions to Modify 
Scope: February 17, 1998.
    Description: Application of American Airlines, Inc., pursuant to 49 
U.S.C. 41108, applies for long-term U.S-Japan certificate authority, 
frequency allocation, and same-country codesharing to provide scheduled 
foreign air transportation of persons, property, and mail.

    Docket Number: OST-1996-1121.
    Date Filed: February 10, 1998.
    Due Date for Answers, Conforming Applications, or Motions to Modify 
Scope: February 17, 1998.
    Description: Application of Trans World Airlines, Inc. pursuant to 
the Department's Notice, dated February 3, 1998, request a St. Louis-
Japan certificate of public convenience and necessity service, and 
applies for a frequency allocation of seven weekly frequencies to 
conduct the service.

    Docket Number: OST-1996-1126.
    Date Filed: February 10, 1998.
    Due Date for Answers, Conforming Applications, or Motions to Modify 
Scope: February 17, 1998.
    Description: Application of American Airlines, Inc., pursuant to 49 
U.S.C. 41108, applies for long-term U.S-Japan certificate authority, 
frequency allocation, and same-country codesharing to provide scheduled 
foreign air transportation of persons, property, and mail, as listed.

    Docket Number: OST-1996-1213.
    Date Filed: February 10, 1998.
    Due Date for Answers, Conforming Applications, or Motions to Modify 
Scope: February 17, 1998.
    Description: Supplement of Continental Airlines to its application 
for Houston-Tokyo, Newark-Tokyo and Newark-Osaka authority to comply 
with the requirements of the U.S.-Japan Combination Service Notice and 
seeks 21 weekly U.S.-Japan frequencies for operation of these proposed 
services.

    Docket Number: OST-1997-2913.
    Date Filed: February 10, 1998.
    Due Date for Answers, Conforming Applications, or Motions to Modify 
Scope: February 17, 1998.
    Description: Amendment No. 1 to the Application Delta Air Lines, 
Inc. pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 41102 and 41108 and the Department's Notice 
dated February 3, 1998, (1) requests that its application in OST-97-
2913 for U.S.-Japan Authority be consolidated into the 1998 U.S.-Japan 
Combination Service Proceeding, OST-98-3419 (2) amends and supplements 
its application requesting certificate authority to engage in scheduled 
foreign air transportation of persons, property and mail between the 
terminal points:
    1. Atlanta, Georgia and Tokyo, Japan;
    2. Portland, Oregon and Osaka, Japan;
    3. Portland, Oregon and Fukuoka, Japan;
    4. New York, New York (JFK) and Tokyo, Japan;
    5. Atlanta, Georgia and Osaka, Japan; and
    6. Cincinnati, Ohio and Tokyo, Japan; and
    Allocation of one weekly frequency to increase its nonstop service 
between Los Angeles, California and Tokyo, Japan from six weekly 
flights to daily service;
    Allocation of twenty-one weekly frequencies to provide daily 
nonstop service commencing in 1998 between: (1) Atlanta and Tokyo, (2) 
Portland and Osaka, and (3) Portland and Fukuoka; Allocation of twenty-
one weekly frequencies to provide daily nonstop

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sevice after January 1, 1999, between: (1) Atlanta and Osaka, (2) 
Cincinnati and Tokyo; and (3) New York (JFK) and Tokyo.

    Docket Number: OST-98-3419.
    Date Filed: February 10, 1998.
    Due Date for Answers, Conforming Applications, or Motions to Modify 
Scope: February 17, 1998.
    Description: Application of Continental Micronesia, Inc. pursuant 
to 49 U.S.C. 41108 and 41102, and Subpart Q and the Department's Notice 
dated February 3, 1998, applies for an amendment to its certificates of 
public convenience and necessity for Route 171 to provide scheduled 
foreign air transportation of persons, property and mail between 
Honolulu, Hawaii, and Osaka, Japan.

    Docket Number: OST-98-3419.
    Date Filed: February 10, 1998.
    Due Date for Answers, Conforming Applications, or Motions to Modify 
Scope: February 17, 1998.
    Description: Application of Hawaiian Airlines, Inc. pursuant to the 
Department's Notice dated February 3, 1998, requests a certificate of 
public convenience and necessity to authorize nonstop scheduled air 
service of persons, property and mail between Maui, Hawaii and Narita, 
Japan, commencing January 1, 2000.

    Docket Number: OST-98-3419.
    Date Filed: February 10, 1998.
    Due Date for Answers, Conforming Applications, or Motions to Modify 
Scope: February 17, 1998.
    Description: Application of US airways, Inc., pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 
41101, 41102, 41108 and the Department's Notice of February 3, 1998, 
applies for a certificate of public convenience and necessity to 
operate Philadelphia-Tokyo (Narita), Pittsburgh-Tokyo (Narita), 
Charlotte-Tokyo (Narita) and Philadelphia-Osaka, Japan.

    Docket Number: OST-98-3419.
    Date Filed: February 11, 1998.
    Due Date for Answers, Conforming Applications, or Motions to Modify 
Scope: February 17, 1998.
    Description: Amended Application of Trans World Airlines, Inc., 
pursuant to the Department's Notice, dated February 3, 1998, requests 
an allocation of 28 weekly code share frequencies in order to conduct 
code share service with Delta Air Lines on Portland-Osaka-Nagoya-
Fukuoka routes and Los Angeles-Tokyo route. TWA requests leave to file 
this amended application one day late.

    Docket Number: OST-1998-3464.
    Date Filed: February 10, 1998.
    Due Date for Answers, Conforming Applications, or Motions to Modify 
Scope: March 10, 1998.
    Description: Application of All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd., pursuant 
to 49 U.S.C. 41301, applies for an amendment to its foreign air carrier 
permit to engage in the foreign air transportation of persons, property 
and mail, between any point or points behind Japan and any point or 
points in Japan, via any intermediate point or points, and any point or 
points in the United States, and beyond the United States to any point 
or points, with full traffic rights.

    Docket Number: OST-1998-3475.
    Date Filed: February 12, 1998.
    Due Date for Answers, Conforming Applications, or Motions to Modify 
Scope: March 12, 1998.
    Description: Application of Nippon Cargo Airlines Co., Ltd., 
pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 41301 and Subpart Q of the Regulations, applies 
for an amendment to its foreign air carrier permit to engage in foreign 
air transportation, between any point or points in Japan, via any 
intermediate point or points, and any point or points in the United 
States, and beyond the United States to any point or points, with full 
traffic rights.

    Docket Number: OST-1998-3477.
    Date Filed: February 12, 1998.
    Due Date for Answers, Conforming Applications, or Motions to Modify 
Scope: March 12, 1998.
    Description: Application of United Parcel Service Co., pursuant to 
49 U.S.C. 41102, 41108, and Subpart Q of the Regulations, requests a 
certificate of public convenience and necessity authorizing it to 
engage in the foreign air transportation of cargo (property and mail) 
between a point or points in the United States and two points in Japan 
and beyond each of those two points to two points with full traffic 
rights between all points on the route.

    Docket Number: OST-98-3479.
    Date Filed: February 12, 1998.
    Due Date for Answers, Conforming Applications, or Motions to Modify 
Scope: March 12, 1998.
    Description: Application of Asia Pacific Airlines, Inc., pursuant 
to 49 U.S.C. 41102, and Subpart Q of the Department's Economic 
Regulations, requests a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity 
to authorize it to engage in foreign charter air transportation of 
property and mail.

    Docket Number: OST-98-3484.
    Date Filed: February 13, 1998.
    Due Date for Answers, Conforming Applications, or Motions to Modify 
Scope: March 13, 1998.
    Description: Application of Japan Airlines Company, Ltd., pursuant 
to 49 U.S.C. 41304(a) and Subpart Q of the Regulations, applies to 
amend its foreign air carrier permit to authorize JAL to (i) engage in, 
in addition to operations permitted by its existing permit authority, 
both combination and all-cargo services between any point or points 
behind Japan, any point or points in Japan, any intermediate point or 
points, any point or points in the territory of the United States, and 
any point or points beyond the United States, without any limitation on 
frequency or capacity, consistent with the provisions of Tab F 
(``Operational Flexibility'') and Tab G (``Change of Gauge'') of the 
Memorandum of Consultations between the United States and Japan, signed 
January 30, 1998.
Paulette V. Twine,
Federal Register Liaison.
[FR Doc. 98-4795 Filed 2-24-98; 8:45 am]
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