BEFORE THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION WASHINGTON, D.C.

__________________________________________ ) Application of ) ) CENTURION AIR CARGO, INC. ) DOCKET OST

- 20 13

- 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. L aw 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 , 201 5

. March 20 , 2015BEFORE 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 a n additional, two

- year period. The Notice , set to expire on May 23 , 2015 , permits Centurion to engage in scheduled foreign air trans portation 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 ext ension provisions of 5 U.S.C. § 558(c) and Part 377 of t he 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:- 2

- Centurion 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 certificate s 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 schedu led and charter service in a number of international ma rkets.

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

- pair s 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 servic e 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 efficient ly. 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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co n s ignees. Renewing Centurion 's authority will c ont i nue those b e n e fi ts as
t h e U

. S. and Mexico move toward an expanded air transport agreement, initialed in November 2014, 

### that w ou ld r e mov e fr e quency a nd designation limits on scheduled freighter service.
WHEREFORE , Centurion Air Cargo, Inc. requ es ts that the Dep a rtment renew the ab o ve -c aptioned e xemp tio n and grant such ot h er relief

a s ma y b e necess ary or proper.

Marc h 20, 2015 Respectfully submitted ,

John R. 

### Mie t us, Jr

. Law Office of John Mietus, LLC 6701 

### D emocracy Blvd. , Suit e 

### 3 00 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 hav e, t his 20t h day of March, 2015 cau s ed a copy of the foregoing Application for Ren e wal to be served by electronic mail on t h e following person s: sascha.vanderbellen, chris.walker@delta.com howard .kass , robert. wi rick@aa .com gmurphy, sseiden@c r owell.com for United dan .w eiss , steve .morr iss ey@ un ited.com nsspa rks, gbleopard@fedex.com jrichardso n@j ohnlricha rd son
. com + jcanny@ame r i jet .com anita.mosner, jennifer

. nowak@hklaw

. com for UPS jhill, perkmann@cooley

. com f o r Hawaiian and Je tBiue robe rt .land@ jetblue

. com thom as.t ing@sun c oun try .com bob.kneisley, les l ie.abbott@wnco.com f o r Southwes t and A i r Tran matwood, slachter@cozen .c om for Front i er jyoung, dkirstein@yklaw

. com for Sp ir i t robert. co hn, pat rick.rizzi@ h ogan l ovells.com for Republic barbara.russell@virg lnam er ica

. com dheffernan@ coze n .com + Je r emy.ross@a laskaair.com eng let s@state .gov joh n.s.duncan@faa .gov