UNITED STATES OF AMERICA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY WASHINGTON, D.C. Issued by the Department of Transportation on July 27 , 20 1 2 

### NOTICE OF ACTION TAKEN -- DOCKET S DOT - OST - 200 6 - 24629 and DOT - OST - 2006 - 24630

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ___ This serves as notice to the public of the action described below, taken by the Department official indicat ed (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
. 1 Applicant representative: Josh Romanow , 202

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- 8000 DOT analyst: Brett D. Kruger , 202

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- 8025 Responsive pleadings: None. DISPOSITION Action: D enied ( See Remarks below)
. Action date: July 27 , 20 1 2 Effective: July 27 , 2012 Special conditions/Remarks: By Notice of Action Taken (NOAT) dated October 20, 2010, in the instant dockets, we specifically limit ed 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 se rvice to any of its authorized points on a coterminal basis, or to otherwise expand its cot erminal 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. H owever , 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
. 2 T herefore, we deny Yangtze’s request
. 3 Action taken by: Paul L. Gretch, Director , Office of International Aviation

______________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________ P ersons entitled to petition the Department for review of the action set forth in this Notice under the Department’s regulatio ns, 14 CFR §385.30, may file their petitions within seven (7) days after the date of issuance of this No tice. 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

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- 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 hold s 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, a nd 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, wh ere we limited new coterminalization of U.S. points by China S outhern Airlines Company Limited. 3 To the extent Yangtze is currently exercising coterminalized authority, nothing in the instant Notice of Action Taken is inte nded 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

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- 1999

- 5035, and DOT

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- 1996

- 1600.