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BEFORE THE

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

WASHINGTON, D.C.

Application of

AEROVÍAS DE INTEGRACIÓN REGIONAL,

AIRES S.A. d/b/a LAN COLOMBIA

for amended exemption pursuant to 49 U.S.C. § 40109

(United States-Colombia Open Skies Authority)

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Docket DOT-OST-2008-0390

APPLICATION OF AEROVÍAS DE INTEGRACIÓN REGIONAL, AIRES S.A.

d/b/a LAN COLOMBIA FOR AMENDED EXEMPTION

Communications with respect to this document should be addressed to:

Erika Zarante

Legal Director

LAN Colombia

Calle 100 # 7 - 33

Torre 1 Piso 17

Bogota D.C., Colombia

Tel. (57-1) 5113000 Ext. 71615

Jeffrey N. Shane

Patrick R. Rizzi

HOGAN LOVELLS US LLP

Columbia Square

555 Thirteenth Street, NW

Washington, DC 20004

Telephone: +1 202 637 6851/5659

Facsimile: +1 202 637 5910

E-mail: jeff.shane@hoganlovells.com

patick.rizzi@hoganlovells.com

Counsel for

AEROVÍAS DE INTEGRACIÓN REGIONAL,

AIRES S.A. d/b/a LAN COLOMBIA

December 12, 2012

NOTICE: LAN Colombia will be conducting a poll regarding this application.
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BEFORE THE

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

WASHINGTON, D.C.

Application of

AEROVÍAS DE INTEGRACIÓN REGIONAL,

AIRES S.A. d/b/a LAN COLOMBIA

for amended exemption pursuant to 49 U.S.C. § 40109

(United States-Colombia Open Skies Authority)

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Docket DOT-OST-2008-0390

December 12, 2012

APPLICATION OF AEROVÍAS DE INTEGRACIÓN REGIONAL, AIRES S.A.

d/b/a LAN COLOMBIA FOR AMENDED EXEMPTION

Aerovías de Integración Regional, AIRES S.A. d/b/a LAN Colombia

(“LAN Colombia”) hereby applies under 49 U.S.C. § 40109 and Subpart C of the

Department’s Rules of Practice (14 C.F.R § 302.301, et seq.) for amended exemption

authority to permit it to engage in scheduled and charter foreign air transportation of

persons, property, and mail from points behind Colombia via Colombia and intermediate

points to any point or points in the United States and beyond. LAN Colombia requests

approval of the amended exemption for a period of at least two years.

In support of this application for amended exemption authority, LAN Colombia states

as follows:

1. LAN Colombia currently holds a foreign air carrier permit issued by DOT

Order 2009-6-14, served June 17, 2009, authorizing it to engage in scheduled foreign air

transportation of persons, property, and mail between Bogota, Cartagena, and Barranquilla,

Colombia, on the one hand, and New York (JFK), New York, on the other hand, and to

engage in charter trips in foreign air transportation subject to the terms, conditions, and

limitations of the Department’s regulations governing charters. LAN Colombia also holds
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exemption authority to engage in scheduled foreign air transportation of person, property,

and mail (a) between Bogota, Cali, Cartagena, and Barranquilla, Colombia, on the one

hand, and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on the other hand (with authority to coterminalize

Fort Lauderdale and New York for its services from Bogota, Barranquilla, and Cartagena);

and (b) between Bogota, Colombia and Miami, Florida. Notice of Action Taken, dated

October 25, 2011 (Docket DOT-OST-2008-0390). A timely application for renewal of that

exemption authority was filed on October 11, 2012, and remains pending, and the authority

has continued in effect under the automatic extension provisions of the Administrative

Procedure Act.

2. LAN Colombia now seeks prompt approval of an amended exemption

authorizing it to engage in scheduled and charter services to the full extent authorized

under the U.S.-Colombia Open Skies Agreement, which is being provisionally applied

pending entry into force and which comes fully into effect on January 1, 2013, upon the

expiry of transitional provisions set forth in the Annex thereto. Approval of such exemption

authority will enable LAN Colombia to enhance its codeshare services or introduce a variety

of other scheduled and charter services on Colombia-U.S. routes should it so desire,

thereby maximizing the liberalized opportunities available to Colombian air carriers under

the U.S.-Colombia Open Skies Agreement.

3. LAN Colombia is fit, willing, and able to provide the expanded scheduled and

charter foreign air transportation described in this application. LAN Colombia has

previously furnished information to the Department that supports a determination that it is

operationally and financially qualified to engage in scheduled and charter foreign air

transportation. LAN Colombia requests, pursuant to Rule 24(g) of the Department’s Rules

of Practice, that the Department take official notice of the relevant facts contained in Docket
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DOT-OST-2008-0390 and otherwise on file with the Department to support approval of this

application.

4. This application is entirely consistent with the U.S.-Colombia Open Skies

Agreement, constituting prima facie evidence that approval of the amended exemption

authority is in the public interest.

WHEREFORE, Aerovías de Integración Regional, AIRES S.A. d/b/a LAN Colombia

requests that the Department promptly approve amended exemption authority to permit

LAN Colombia to engage in scheduled and charter foreign air transportation of persons,

property, and mail from points behind Colombia via Colombia and intermediate points to

any point or points in the United States and beyond, and that the Department grant such

further and additional relief as the public interest may require.

Respectfully submitted,

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Jeffrey N. Shane

Patrick R. Rizzi

HOGAN LOVELLS US LLP

Counsel for

Aerovías de Integración Regional,

AIRES S.A. d/b/a LAN Colombia
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I hereby certify that a copy of the foregoing Application of Aerovías de Integración

Regional, AIRES S.A. d/b/a LAN Colombia for Amended Exemption has been served this

12th day of December, 2012, upon the following addresses:

robert.wirick@aa.com

francis.heil@aa.com

sascha.vanderbellen@delta.com

sametta.c.barnett@delta.com

jhill@dowlohnes.com

perkmann@dowlohnes.com

jyoung@yklaw.com

dkirstein@yklaw.com

dan.weiss@united.com

steve.morrissey@united.com

jonathan.linde@united.com

howard_kass@usairways.com

rsilverberg@sgbdc.com

JCanny@amerijet.com

jrichardson@johnlrichardson.com

rpommer@atlasair.com

john@mietuslaw.com

kelli.bryan@evergreenairlines.com

anbird@fedex.com

marshall.sinick@squiresanders.com

matwood@cozen.com

kevin.montgomery@polaraircargo.com

agoerlich@ggh-airlaw.com

anita.mosner@hklaw.com

mlbenge@zsrlaw.com

urskr@state.gov

robert.finamore@dot.gov

john.allen@faa.gov

Jonathan Echmalian