RENEW

September 16, 1997  

This serves as interim notice to the public of the action described below, taken orally by the Department official indicated; the confirming order or other decision document will be issued as soon as possible.

Application of Northwest Airlines, Inc. filed 7/1/97 in Docket OST-95-278 for:

XX Exemption for two years under 49 U.S.C. 40109 to provide the following service:

Scheduled foreign air transportation of persons, property, and mail between points in the United States and Almaty, Kazakhstan, via Amsterdam. Northwest intends to operate this service pursuant to a code-share arrangement with KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.

  Applicant rep.: Megan Rae Poldy, 202-842-3193 DOT analyst: Sylvia Moore, 202-366-6519  

DISPOSITION

XX Granted (subject to conditions, see below)

The above action was effective when taken: September 12, 1997, through September 12, 1999

XX Under assigned authority (14 CFR 385) by:

 Paul L. Gretch, Director
Office of International Aviation
(Petitions for review may be filed from now until
10 days after the confirming order/letter issues.
Filing of a petition shall not stay the effectiveness
of this action.)  

XX Exemption authority granted is consistent with the aviation agreement between the United States and the U.S.S.R. to which Kazakhstan acceded upon its independence.

Except to the extent exempted or waived, this authority is subject to the terms, conditions, and limitations indicated:

XX Holder’s certificate of public convenience and necessity
XX Standard Exemption Conditions (attached)

Conditions: The code-sharing operations conducted in conjunction with this authority must comply with 14 CFR 399.88 of the Department’s regulations and any amendments to the Department’s regulations concerning code-share arrangements that may be adopted and are expressly conditioned upon the requirements that the subject foreign air transportation be sold in the name of the carrier holding out such service in the computer reservation systems and elsewhere, that the carrier selling such transportation accept all obligations established in its contract of carriage with the passenger (i.e., the ticket) and that the operator shall not permit the code of its U.S. carrier code-sharing partner to be carried on any flight that enters, departs, or transits the airspace of any area for whose airspace the Federal Aviation Administration has issued a flight prohibition.

Remarks: The authority granted is coextensive with the duration of the statement of authorization granted KLM on September 12, 1997.

The authority for which Northwest requested renewal expired August 30, 1997, but had been kept in force pursuant to the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. 558(c), as implemented by 14 CFR Part 377, pending action on Northwest’s timely filed renewal application.