**BEFORE THE**

**DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION**

**WASHINGTON, D. C.**

--------------------------------------------- Application of :

:

AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC. : DOT

- OST

- 2006

-

: 24194

under 49 USC 40109 for an exemption :

(points in Argentina for codesharing :

on Lan Airlines) :

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**APPLICATION OF AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC.**

**FOR RENEWAL OF EXEMPTION**

Communications with respect to this document should be sent to:

VIRASB VAHIDI WILLIAM K. RIS, JR.

Senior Vice President

- Senior Vice President

- Marketing and Planning Government Affairs

and Chief Commercial Officer American Airlines, Inc.

American Airlines, Inc. 1101 17 th Street, N.W.

P .O. Box 619616, MD 5634 Washington, D.C. 20036

DFW Airport, Texas 75161

CARL B. NELSON

KENJI C. HASHIMOTO Associate General Counsel

Vice President

– Strategic American Airlines, Inc.

Alliances 1101 17 th Street, N.W.

American Airlin es, Inc. Washington, D.C. 20036

P.O. Box 619616, MD 5635 (202) 496

- 5647

DFW Airport, Texas 75261 carl.nelson@aa.com

ROBERT A. WIRICK

Director, Regulatory Affairs

American Airlines, Inc.

P.O. Box 619616, MD 5635

DFW Airport, Texas 752 61

(817) 963

- 0394

robert.wirick@aa.com

March 7, 2012**BEFORE THE**

**DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION**

**WASHINGTON, D. C.**

--------------------------------------------- Application of :

:

AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC. : DOT

- OST

- 2006

-

: 24194

under 49 USC 40109 for an exemption :

(points in Argentina for codesharing :

on Lan Airlines) :

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**APPLICATION OF AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC.**

**FOR RENEWAL OF EXEMPTION**

American Airlines, Inc. , under 49 USC 40l09 and l4 CFR

Part 377, hereb y applies for renewal of its exemption authority

most recently renewed by Notice of Action Taken in this docket

on May 21, 2010 , au thorizing scheduled foreign air transpor

tation of persons, property, and mail between the United

States, on the one hand, a nd Bariloche, Cordoba, Mendoza, and

Rosario, Argentina, on the other.

American uses this authority to engage in codeshare

services on Lan Airlines (AA* on flights operated by Lan

betw ee n Chile and Arg entina). In filing this application,

American inv okes the automatic extension provisions of the

Administrative Procedure Act, 5 USC 558(c), as implemented by

l4 CFR Part 377.- 2

-

The current exemption wo uld expire on Ma y 21, 2012

,

absent this renewal application, which is timely under l4 CFR

377.l0(c) sinc e it is filed more than 60 days in advance of the

expira tion date.

Grant of this renewal application is consistent with the

U.S.

- Argentina Air Transport Agreement, as amende d, and with

the public interest, as the Department found in its initi al

award to American in this docket (Notice of Action Taken,

August 29, 2006).

In response to the Department’s letter of June 1, 1995

t o participants in the Civil Reserve Air Fleet Program, Ameri

can states that its codeshare arrangement with Lan Airlines has

no impact on American’s CRAF commitments.

Respectfully submitted,

CARL B. NELSON

Associate General Counsel

American Airlines, Inc.

March 7, 2012**CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE**

I hereby certify that I have this day served the foregoing document by email

on the following persons:

sascha.vanderbellen@delta.com jhill@dlalaw.com

scott.mcclain@delta.com steve.morrissey@united.com

sametta.c.barnett@delta.com mgoldman@sgbdc.com

kquinn@pillsburywinthrop.com rsilverberg@sgbdc.com

r bkeiner@crowell.com dhainbach@ggh

- airlaw.com

esahr@eckertseamons.com rpommer@atlasair.com

russell.bailey@alpa.org eskraft@jamhoff.com

j onathan.linde@united.co m dpdean@jamhoff.com

bob.kneisley@wnco.com dkirstein@yklaw.com

robert.land@jetblue.com jyoung@yklaw.com

msinick@ssd.com willim.stallings @usdoj.gov

cdonley@ssd.com dwight.moore@ustranscom.mil

gbleopard@fedex.com john.allen@faa.gov

david.heffernan@wilmerhale.com urskr@state.gov

kevin.montgomery@polaraircargo.com recohn@hoganlovells .com

jrichardson@johnlrichardson.com cjsimpson@zsrlaw.com

lhalloway@crowell.com pmurphy@lopmurphy.com

efaberman@wileyrein.com lachter@starpower.net

mroller@rollerbauer.com anita.mosner@hklaw.com

howard.kass@usairways.com jennifer.nowak@hklaw.com

benjamin.slocum@usairways.com gmurphy@crowell.com

dan.weiss@united .com nssparks@fedex.com

cefelts@fedex.com

________________________________ CARL B. NELSON

March 7

, 2012