[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 162 (Tuesday, August 21, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 43950]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-21001]


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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-2001-10416, Order 2001-8-15.

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SUMMARY: The Department is inviting comments on its tentative decision 
to terminate foreign air carrier permit and exemption authority held by 
eleven foreign air carriers. These foreign air carriers have failed to 
file revised 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, as amended 
by the Wendell H. Ford Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21st 
Century (AIR-21) (P.L. 106-181; 114 Stat. 61; April 5, 2000). AIR-21 
amended 49 U.S.C. 41313 to require, among other things, that foreign 
air carriers submit to the Department and the National Transportation 
Safety Board, by October 2, 2000, additional assurances for their 
respective plans to address the needs of families of passengers 
involved in aircraft accidents. Since the passing of the October 2, 
2000 deadline, the Department has taken repeated measures to notify 
foreign carriers of their need to file revised plans, and to offer 
assistance to the affected carriers. Of the 231 foreign air carriers 
required to file revised plans, 220 have done so. The Department 
tentatively believes that the continued failure of the remaining eleven 
to file constitutes grounds for termination of those carriers' 
authority to serve the United States. Significantly, it is our 
understanding that all of the nonfiling foreign air carriers are either 
no longer in business, or no longer conduct any U.S. operations. The 
eleven foreign air carriers whose authority the Department proposes to 
terminate are: Aeronautica de Cancun, S.A.; AeroPeru; Air Alliance, 
Inc.; Empresa Ecuatoriana de Aviacion; Inter-Canadien (1991)/Inter-
Canadian (1991); Lineas Aereas Mayas, S.A.; Pacific International 
Airlines, S.A.; Seagreen Air Transport Limited; Sobelair N.V./S.A.; 
Sociedad Ecuatoriana de Transportes Aereos, S.A.; and Transportes 
Aereos Ejecutivos, S.A. de C.V.

DATES: Objections to the issuance of a final order in this proceeding 
are due September 5, 2001. If objections are filed, answers to 
objections are due September 12, 2001. 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.

ADDRESS: All documents in this proceeding, with appropriate filing 
copies, should be filed in Docket OST-2001-10416, 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: August 15, 2001.
Susan McDermott,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Aviation and International Affairs.
[FR Doc. 01-21001 Filed 8-20-01; 8:45 am]
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