BEFORE THE

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

WASHINGTON, D.C.

__________________________________________

)

Application of )

)

CENTURION AIR CARGO, INC. ) DOCKET OST-2013-0102

)

for renewal of exemption authority )

(U.S.-Mexico) )

__________________________________________)

APPLICATION OF CENTURION AIR CARGO, INC.

FOR RENEWAL OF AN EXEMPTION

Communications with respect to this document should be sent to:

John R. Mietus, Jr.

Law Office of John Mietus, LLC

6701 Democracy Blvd., Suite 300

Bethesda, MD 20817-7500

(202) 747-5212

john@mietuslaw.com

Counsel for CENTURION AIR CARGO, INC.

NOTICE: Any person may support or oppose this application by filing an 

answer and serving a copy of the answer on counsel for 

Centurion and upon persons served with this application no 

later than April 6, 2015.

March 20, 2015
BEFORE THE

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

WASHINGTON, D.C.

__________________________________________

)

Application of )

)

CENTURION AIR CARGO, INC. ) DOCKET OST-2013-0102

) March 20, 2015

for renewal of exemption authority )

(U.S.-Mexico) )

__________________________________________)

APPLICATION OF CENTURION AIR CARGO, INC.

FOR RENEWAL OF AN EXEMPTION

Pursuant to 49 U.S.C. § 40109(c), Centurion Air Cargo, Inc. 

(“Centurion”) respectfully requests renewal of the above-captioned 

exemption, granted by Notice of Action Taken dated May 23, 2013, for an 

additional, two-year period. The Notice, set to expire on May 23, 2015,

permits Centurion to engage in scheduled foreign air transportation of 

property and mail in the following four U.S.-Mexico city pairs, and Centurion 

requests that authority in each market be renewed:

Los Angeles, California-Mexico City (Benito Juarez), Mexico;

Los Angeles-Guadalajara;

Miami, Florida-Mexico City (Benito Juarez); and

Miami-Guadalajara.

Centurion intends to invoke the automatic extension provisions of 5 U.S.C. § 558(c) 

and Part 377 of the Department's Special Regulations; this application is timely 

pursuant to 14 C.F.R. § 377.10. In support of this application, Centurion states as 

follows: 
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Renewal Application

1. Centurion is an air carrier of property and mail headquartered at 

Miami International Airport in Miami, Florida. It is a U.S. citizen within the 

meaning of 49 U.S.C. § 40102(a)(5) and holds two certificates of public 

convenience and necessity: one authorizing domestic all-cargo transportation 

(and worldwide charter service) and a second with blanket, all-cargo, open 

skies authority; Centurion also holds scheduled exemption authority to serve 

China and several Latin American countries. Centurion provides extensive 

scheduled and charter service in a number of international markets.

2. Renewal of Centurion’s authority is in the public interest and 

consistent with liberalizing U.S.-Mexico aviation relations. Centurion 

currently operates Miami-Mexico City scheduled service, and it intends to 

resume service in the other city-pairs for which it holds authority as 

operating and economic conditions warrant. Unfortunately, slot allocation 

policy at Benito Juarez International Airport (MEX) has been a significant 

operational limitation on Centurion’s goal to maintain consistent service to 

both Mexico City and Guadalajara from Miami and Los Angeles. To date, 

Centurion has only been able to consistently obtain slots at MEX between 

2300 and 0500 local time, and this has made it difficult to schedule any 

service involving Mexico efficiently. Nonetheless, Centurion has continued to 

invest significant time and effort in developing its Mexican presence. That 

competitive presence, and the scheduled service Centurion has been able to 
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Renewal Application 

consignees. Renewing Centurion's authority will continue those benefits as 

the U.S. and Mexico move toward an expanded air transport agreement, 

initialed in November 2014, that would remove frequency and designation 

limits on scheduled freighter service. 

WHEREFORE, Centurion Air Cargo, Inc. requests that the 

Department renew the above-captioned exemption and grant such other relief 

as may be necessary or proper. 

March 20, 2015 

Respectfully submitted, 

John R. Mietus, Jr. 

Law Office of John Mietus, LLC 

6701 Democracy Blvd., Suite 300 

Bethesda, MD 20817-7 500 

(202) 747-5212 

jobn@mietuslaw .com 

Counsel for CENTURION AIR CARGO, 

INC. 
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE 

I hereby certify that I have, this 20th day of March, 2015 caused a copy 

of the foregoing Application for Renewal to be served by electronic mail on the 

following persons: 

sascha.vanderbellen, chris.walker@delta.com 

howard .kass, robert. wi rick@aa .com 

gmurphy, sseiden@crowell.com for United 

dan .weiss, steve .morrissey@ un ited.com 

nssparks, gbleopard@fedex.com 

jrichardson@johnlrichardson.com + jcanny@amerijet.com 

anita.mosner, jennifer.nowak@hklaw.com for UPS 

jhill, perkmann@cooley.com for Hawaiian and JetBiue 

robert.land@jetblue.com 

thomas.ting@suncountry.com 

bob.kneisley, leslie.abbott@wnco.com for Southwest and AirTran 

matwood, slachter@cozen.com for Frontier 

jyoung, dkirstein@yklaw.com for Spirit 

robert.cohn, patrick.rizzi@hoganlovells.com for Republic 

barbara.russell@virglnamerica.com 

dheffernan@cozen.com + Jeremy.ross@a laskaair.com 

englets@state .gov 

joh n.s.duncan@faa .gov