UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

WASHINGTON, D.C.

Issued by the Department of Transportation on July 27, 2012

NOTICE OF ACTION TAKEN -- DOCKETS DOT-OST-2006-24629

and DOT-OST-2006-24630 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

This serves as notice to the public of the action described below, taken by the Department official indicated (no 

additional confirming order will be issued in this matter).

Applicant: YANGTZE RIVER EXPRESS AIRLINES CO., LTD. (Yangtze)

Date Filed: June 19, 2012

Relief requested: Amended exemption from 49 U.S.C. § 41301 to permit Yangtze engage in scheduled foreign air 

transportation of property and mail on a Shanghai-Anchorage (ferry)-Chicago-Los Angeles-Shanghai routing, with the 

authority to serve Chicago and Los Angeles on a coterminal basis.

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Applicant representative: Josh Romanow, 202-663-8000 DOT analyst: Brett D. Kruger, 202-366-8025

Responsive pleadings: None.

DISPOSITION

Action: Denied (See Remarks below). 

Action date: July 27, 2012

Effective: July 27, 2012

Special conditions/Remarks: By Notice of Action Taken (NOAT) dated October 20, 2010, in the instant dockets, we 

specifically limited new coterminalization of U.S. points by Yangtze. In conditioning Yangtze’s authority, we stated that 

we were not prepared to permit Yangtze to implement new service to any of its authorized points on a coterminal basis, or 

to otherwise expand its coterminal operations. In support of its present request Yangtze refers to recent Chinese 

Government action granting coterminalization rights over one routing in China to Evergreen International Airlines. 

However, we do not find that this approval provides an adequate basis to warrant modification of the conditions we have 

placed on Chinese carriers in this regard.

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 Therefore, we deny Yangtze’s request.

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Action taken by: Paul L. Gretch, Director, Office of International Aviation _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Persons entitled to petition the Department for review of the action set forth in this Notice under the Department’s regulations, 14 

CFR §385.30, may file their petitions within seven (7) days after the date of issuance of this Notice. This action was effective 

when taken, and the filing of a petition for review will not alter such effectiveness.

An electronic version of this document is available on the World Wide Web at:

http://www.regulations.gov

 1 Yangtze holds a foreign air carrier permit, issued in the instant dockets on April 18, 2008, by Order 2008-4-27, authorizing it to 

engage in scheduled foreign air transportation of property and mail between Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, and the 

coterminal points Anchorage, Alaska; Boston, Massachusetts; Los Angeles, California; and New York, New York. Yangtze also 

holds exemption authority, issued by Notice of Action Taken (NOAT) dated November 4, 2011 in the above referenced Dockets, 

authorizing it to engage in scheduled foreign air transportation of property and mail between (1) Shanghai, People’s Republic of 

China, and Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas; (2) Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, and San Francisco, California; and (3) Shanghai, 

People’s Republic of China, and Chicago, Illinois. 

2 See Notice of Action Taken dated April 15, 2010, in Docket DOT-OST-2010-0047, where we limited new coterminalization of 

U.S. points by China Southern Airlines Company Limited. 3 To the extent Yangtze is currently exercising coterminalized authority, nothing in the instant Notice of Action Taken is intended 

to restrict those operations. Furthermore, our action here does not preclude Yangtze from exercising the Alaska coterminalization 

authority granted by Notice of Action Taken dated August 19, 2010, in Dockets DOT-OST-2010-0200, DOT-OST-1999-5035, and 

DOT-OST-1996-1600.