[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 120 (Friday, June 20, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35190-35191]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-13984]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Office of the Secretary


Notice of Applications for Certificates of Public Convenience and 
Necessity and Foreign Air Carrier Permits Filed Under Subpart B 
(Formerly Subpart Q) During the Week Ending April 18, 2008

    The following Applications for Certificates of Public Convenience 
and Necessity and Foreign Air Carrier Permits were filed under Subpart 
B (formerly Subpart Q) of the Department of Transportation's Procedural 
Regulations (See 14 CFR 301.201 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: DOT-OST-1999-6345.
    Date Filed: April 14, 2008.
    Due Date for Answers, Conforming Applications, or Motion to Modify 
Scope: May 5, 2008.
    Description: Application of United Parcel Service Co. (``UPS'') 
requesting renewal of its certificate authorizing UPS to engage in the 
scheduled foreign air transportation of property and mail between 
Miami, Florida and Los Angeles, California; via intermediate points in 
Colombia, Ecuador, and Panama; and the coterminal points Manaus, 
Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Recife, Porto Alegre, Belem, Belo 
Horizonte, and Salvador, Brazil.

    Docket Number: DOT-OST-2008-0140.
    Date Filed: April 16, 2008.
    Due Date for Answers, Conforming Applications, or Motion to Modify 
Scope: May 7, 2008.
    Description: Application of Qantas Airways Limited (``Qantas'') 
requesting an amendment of its foreign air carrier permit in order to 
engage in scheduled foreign air transportation of persons, property and 
mail between the United States and Australia to the full extent 
authorized by the new Air Transport Services Agreement between the 
United States and Australia, to which the United States and Australia 
reached a referendum agreement on February 14, 2008. Qantas also 
requests an exemption to the extent necessary to enable it to provide 
the service authorized by the new Agreement pending issuance of its 
amended foreign air carrier permit. Qantas seeks permit and interim 
exemption authority to engage in: (i) Foreign scheduled and charter air 
transportation of persons, property and mail from points behind 
Australia via Australia and intermediate points to a point or points in 
the United States and beyond; (ii) foreign scheduled and charter 
transportation of property between any point or points in the United 
States and any other point or points; (iii) other charters pursuant to 
prior approval.

    Docket Number: DOT-OST-2008-0142.
    Date Filed: April 18, 2008.
    Due Date for Answers, Conforming Applications, or Motion to Modify 
Scope: May 9, 2008.
    Description: Application of Air Jamaica Limited (``Air Jamaica'') 
requesting an amended foreign air carrier permit authorizing it to 
engage in (i) scheduled foreign air transportation of persons, property 
and mail from

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points behind Jamaica via Jamaica and intermediate points to a point or 
points in the United States and beyond; (ii) charter foreign air 
transportation of persons, property and mail between any point or 
points in Jamaica and any point or points in the United States; (iii) 
charter foreign air transportation of persons, property and mail 
between any point or points in the United States and any point or 
points in a third country or countries, provided that, except with 
respect to cargo charters, such service constitutes part of a 
continuous operation, with or without a change of aircraft, that 
includes service to Jamaica for the purpose of carrying local traffic 
between Jamaica and the United States; (iv) other charters pursuant to 
the prior approval requirement; and (v) transportation authorized by 
any additional route rights made available to Jamaican carriers in the 
future, provided that Air Jamaica has furnished the Department with 
evidence that it holds a homeland license for that new service before 
its commencement.

    Docket Number: DOT-OST-2008-0144.
    Date Filed: April 18, 2008.
    Due Date for Answers, Conforming Applications, or Motion to Modify 
Scope: May 9, 2008.
    Description: Application of Futura Gael requesting issuance of a 
foreign air carrier permit to the full extent authorized by the Air 
Transport Agreement between the United States and the European 
Community and the Member States of the European Community to enable it 
to engage in: (i) Foreign scheduled and charter air transportation of 
persons, property and mail from any point or points behind any Member 
State of the European Union via any point or points in any Member State 
and via intermediate points to any point or points in the United States 
and beyond; (ii) foreign scheduled and charter air transportation of 
persons, property and mail between any point or points in the United 
States and any point or points in any member of the European Common 
Aviation Area; (iii) foreign scheduled and charter cargo air 
transportation between any point or points in the United States and any 
other point or points; (iv) other charters pursuant to the prior 
approval requirements; and (v) transportation authorized by any 
additional route rights made available to European Community carriers 
in the future. Futura Gael also requests a corresponding exemption to 
the extent necessary to enable it to provide the services described 
above pending issuance of its foreign air carrier permit and such 
additional or other relief.

    Docket Number: DOT-OST-2008-0147.
    Date Filed: April 18, 2008.
    Due Date for Answers, Conforming Applications, or Motion to Modify 
Scope: May 9, 2008.
    Description: Application of Futura International Airway, S.A. 
(``Futura'') requesting issuance of a foreign air carrier permit to the 
full extent authorized by the Air Transport Agreement between the 
United States and the European Community and the Member States of the 
European Community to enable it to engage in: (i) Foreign scheduled and 
charter air transportation of persons, property and mail from any point 
or points behind any Member State of the European Union via any point 
or points in any Member State and via intermediate points to any point 
or points in the United States and beyond; (ii) foreign scheduled and 
charter air transportation of persons, property and mail between any 
point or points in the United States and any point or points in any 
member of the European Common Aviation Area; (iii) foreign scheduled 
and charter cargo air transportation between any point or points in the 
United States and any other point or points; (iv) other charters 
pursuant to the prior approval requirements; and (v) transportation 
authorized by any additional route rights made available to European 
Community carriers in the future. Futura also requests a corresponding 
exemption to the extent necessary to enable it to provide the services 
described above pending issuance of its foreign air carrier permit and 
such additional or other relief.

Renee V. Wright,
Program Manager, Docket Operations, Federal Register Liaison.
[FR Doc. E8-13984 Filed 6-19-08; 8:45 am]
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