[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 195 (Thursday, October 8, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54180-54181]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-26929]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Office of the Secretary
Termination of Operating Authority of Certain Foreign Air
Carriers
AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, Department of Transportation.
ACTION: Order to Show Cause, Docket OST-98-4531, Order 98-10-3.
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SUMMARY: The Department is inviting comments on its tentative decision
to terminate the foreign air carrier permit and exemption authority
held by 47 foreign air carriers. These foreign air carriers have failed
to file family assistance plans with the Department and the National
Transportation Safety Board, as required by the Foreign Air Carrier
Family Support Act of 1997 (Act), 49 U.S.C. 41313. The Act, signed into
law by the President on December 16, 1997, requires foreign air
carriers to file plans for addressing the needs of families of
passengers involved in an aviation disaster. The deadline for filing
the plans was June 15, 1998. Since that time, the Department has taken
repeated measures to notify foreign carriers of their responsibility to
file their plans, and to offer assistance to the affected carriers. Of
the 252 foreign air carriers required to file plans, 205 have done so.
The Department believes that the continued failure of the remainder to
file, particularly in the face of repeated advisories from the
Department that they must do so, constitutes grounds for termination of
those carriers' authority to serve the United States. Of the 47 non-
filing carriers, the Department has received information that at least
32 are no longer in business, and that others no longer conduct any
U.S. operations, have no near-term plans to do so, and do not oppose
the termination of their authority. The 47 foreign air carriers whose
authority the Department proposes to terminate are: Aero
Transcolombiana de Carga Ltda.; Aerolineas Latinas, C.A.; Aeronautica
de Cancun, S.A.; Aeronaves del Peru, S.A.; Air Manitoba Limited; Air
Niagara Express, Inc.; Anglo Airlines Limited; Blue Scandinavia AB;
Caicos Caribbean Airways Limited; Canair Cargo Ltd.; ChallengAir;
Cherokee Air, Ltd.; Cleare Air Limited; Compania de Aviacion
``Faucett'', S.A.; Garuda Indonesia; General Air Cargo, G.A.C., C.A.;
Interestatal de Aviacion, S.A.; Jet Air International Charters, C.A.;
Jetall Holdings Corp.; Jetflight Limited; Kar-Air oy; Lineas Aereas La-
Tur, S.A.; Nigeria Airways, Ltd.; Nordic European Airlines
International AB; North Cariboo Flying Service Ltd.; North Coast
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Air Services Ltd.; Phoenix Air Lines Ltda.; Prairie Connection Ltd.;
Quassar de Mexico, S.A. de C.V.; Regal Air Limited; Rio Air Express,
S.A.; Seagreen Air Transport Limited; Servicio Aereo de Honduras, S.A.;
Sky Freighters Ltd.; Sociedad Aeronautica de Medellin Consolidada;
Societe Nouvelle Air Martinique; Tradewinds Airways Limited; Trans
European Airways France S.A.; Trans North Turbo Air Limited; Transavia
Airlines, C.V.; Translift Airways Limited; Transporte de Carga Aerea
Especializada y Serv.; Transportes Aereos Bolivianos; Vacationair Inc.;
Venezolana Internacional de Aviacion, S.A.; Windward Islands Airways
International, N.V.; and World Wide Air Charter Systems.
DATES: Objections to the issuance of a final order in this proceeding
are due: October 22, 1998. If objections are filed, answers to
objections are due: October 29, 1998. Persons filing pleadings should
contact the Department's Foreign Air Carrier Licensing Division at the
telephone number listed below for a list of persons to be served with
objections and answers to objections.
ADDRESSES: All documents in this proceeding, with appropriate filing
copies, should be filed in Docket OST-98-4531, addressed to Central
Docket Management Facility, U.S. Department of Transportation, Room
PL401, 400 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 20590.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: George Wellington, Foreign Air Carrier
Licensing Division, U.S. Department of Transportation, Room 6412, 400
Seventh Street, SW, Washington, DC 20590. Telephone (202) 366-2391.
Dated: October 1, 1998.
Patrick V. Murphy,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Aviation and International Affairs.
[FR Doc. 98-26929 Filed 10-7-98; 8:45 am]
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