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DOCKET OST 96-1881

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.

Applicant: AIR JAMAICA LIMITED

Date Filed: November 6, 1997

Relief requested: Exemption from 49 U.S.C. 41301 to conduct scheduled foreign air transportation of persons, property and mail between Atlanta, Georgia, and New York, New York, on the one hand, and Barbados, on the other, via the intermediate points Antigua and Barbuda and St. Lucia, for two years.

If renewal, date and citation of last action: Order 97-8-28, August 28, 1997

Applicant representative: George Carneal 202-637-6546

Responsive pleadings: None.

DISPOSITION

Action: Approved, as noted below.

Action date: November 26, 1997

Effective dates of authority granted: December 1, 1997-December 1, 1998

Basis for approval (bilateral agreement/reciprocity): Comity and reciprocity with Jamaica.

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

x Foreign air carrier permit conditions (Order 89-3-74)

Special conditions/Partial grant/Denial basis/Remarks: We dismissed that portion of the carrier’s application to conduct the operations beyond December 1, 1998, without prejudice to refiling at a later date, should future circumstances warrant.

Action taken by:

Paul L. Gretch, Director
Office of International Aviation
under assigned authority (14 CFR 385)

(Petitions for review may be filed from now until 10 days after the service date of the confirming order/letter. Filing of a petition shall not stay the effectiveness of this action.)