BEFORE THE
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

WASHINGTON, D.C.

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- ARGENTINA COMBINATION : FREQUENCY PROCEEDING : Docket DOT

- OST

- 2005

- 21949 :

------------------------------------------------------------------------ APPLICATION OF UNITED AIR LINES , INC. FOR RENEWAL Communications with respect to this document should be sent to:
Hershel I. Kamen Senior Vice President

- Alliances, Regulatory and Policy Daniel A. Weiss Managing Director

- International Affairs and Regulatory UNITED AIR LINES, INC. 77 West Wacker Drive HDQIZ Chicago, IL 60601 (312) 997

- 7573 hershel.kamen@united.com dan.weiss@united.com Steve Morrissey Managing Director

- Regulatory Affairs and Policy Karine R. Faden Managing Counsel

- Regulatory, Antitrust & Competition UNITED AIR LINES, INC. 1225 New York Avenue, N.W. Suite 1100 DCAIZ/DCALD Washington, DC 20005 (202) 521

- 4373 (202) 521

- 4363 steve.morrissey@united.com karine.faden@united.com January 7, 2013 Thomas Newton Bolling Vice President and Deputy General Counsel Jonathan T. Linde Senior Counsel

- Regulatory, Antitrust & Competition UNITED AIR LINES, INC. 77 West Wacker Drive HDQLD Chi cago, IL 60601 (312) 997

- 8341 thomas.bolling@united.com jonathan.linde@united.com Lorraine B. Halloway Gerald F. Murphy CROWELL & MORING LLP 1001 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20004 (202) 624

- 2500 lhalloway@crowell.com gmurphy@crowell.com
Counsel for United Air Lines, Inc.BEFORE THE
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

WASHINGTON, D.C.

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- ARGENTINA COMBINATION : FREQUENCY PROCEEDING : Docket DOT

- OST

- 2005

- 21949 :

------------------------------------------------------------------------ AP PLICATION OF UNITED AIR LINES , INC. FOR RENEWAL
United 1 applies pursuant to 49 U.S.C. § 40109 and Subpart C of the Department's Rules of Practice for renewal of its exemption from 49 U.S.C. § 41101 permitting it to provid e scheduled foreign air transport ation of persons, property and mail between Houston , Texas and Buenos Aires, Argentina

. 2 United asks the Department to renew this authority effective until the Department grants United ’s application for Houston

- Buenos Aires certificate authority

. 3
United states as follows in support of its renewal application : 1. United’s exemption authority to provide schedule d service between Houston and
Buenos Aires was originally granted to Continental by O rder 2005

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- 18, October 19, 2005 , in
this docket , and s uch authority was most recently renewed by Notice of Action Taken March 8,

1 Common names are used for airlines.
2 By Order 2011

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- 14, the Department reissued authorities previously issued only to United or Continental, including the Houston

- Buenos Aires exemption authority that is the subject of this renewal application, in the name of “Continental Airlines, Inc. and/ or United Air Lines, Inc.”

3 Continental applied for Houston

- Buenos Aires certificate authority on August 16, 2007 in Docket DOT

- OST

- 2007

- 29047 . When the Department acts on that application, United asks that the requested authority be issued in the nam e of “Continental Airlines, Inc. and/or United Air Lines, Inc.”Application of United

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2011 in this docket . Absent renewal, United ’s Houston

- Buenos Aires exemption authority will expire on March 8, 20 13

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2. United is currently providing daily nonstop Houston

- Buenos A ires service , and

r enewal of United ’s exemption authority will enable it to continue providing daily nonstop
service between its Houston hub and Buenos Aires

. United ’s Houston

- Buenos Aires flights will
also continue to provide convenient access between points throughout United ’s Houston hub
network and Buenos Aires as well as effective competition for American’s Dallas/Fort Worth

Buenos Aires flights.
3. Renew al of United ’s exemption authority is consistent wi th the U.S.

- Argentina bilateral air transport services agreeme nt, which permits U.S. airlines to operate from points behind the United States via U.S. and intermediate points to Buenos Aires and beyond.
4. United holds various certificates of public convenience and necessity and exemptions authorizing it to engage in scheduled air transportation of persons, property and mail between the U.S. and foreign countries , and United is fit, willing and able to provid e th e service
for which it seeks renewal

. See , e.g
. , Orders 92

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- 9 (U.S.

- various points in Central America,
South America and the Caribbean ) , 2007

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- 19 (Blanket Open Skies), 2010

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- 17 (U.S.

- Mexico)
and 2011

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- 14 (Continental/United route transfer)

. Pursuant to Rule 24 of the Department’s Rules of Practice, United requests that the Department take official notice of all data that has
been filed to establish its fitness.

4 United’s allocation of seven U.S.

- Argentina frequencies remains effective indefinitely so long as it continues to hold underlying authority to serve th is route. See Order 2005

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- 18 at 5.