U.S. Department of

Transportation

Office of the Secretary

of Transportation

DEPARTMENT ACTION ON APPLICATION IN DOCKET DOT-OST-2010-0227

(Filed April 8, 2011)

Application of Alaska Airlines, Inc. (Alaska) for a statement of authorization to 

display the “CX*” designator code of Cathay Pacific Airways Limited (Cathay) on 

flights operated by Alaska between Los Angeles, California, on the one hand, and 

Guadalajara and Mexico City, Mexico, on the other hand, for the purpose of 

transporting Cathay’s Hong Kong-Mexico traffic. The applicant also requests

waiver of the 45-day advance filing requirement under 14 CFR Part 212.

 * Approved under assigned authority (14 CFR §385.13).

 Date of Action: April 13, 20111

This action is subject to the conditions attached. Persons entitled to petition the Department for review 

of this action under the Department’s regulations, 14 CFR §385.30, should file their petitions within 

seven days of the date of this action. This action is effective immediately, and the filing of a petition for 

review will not alter its effectiveness.

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

http://www.regulations.gov

 1 The Department is acting on the applicant’s request prior to the expiration of the answer period with the consent of 

all parties served.
The Statement of Authorization granted is subject to the following conditions:

(a) The statement of authorization will remain in effect only as long as (i) Alaska and Cathay continue to 

hold the necessary underlying authority to operate the code-share services at issue, and (ii) the code-share 

agreement providing for the code-share operations remains in effect;

(b) Alaska and/or Cathay must notify the Department immediately if the code-share agreement under 

which these code-share services are operated is no longer in effect or if the carriers decide to cease 

operating all or a portion of the approved code-share services. Such notice should be filed in Docket 

DOT-OST-2010-0227;

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(c) The code-sharing operations conducted under this authority must comply with 14 CFR 257 and with 

any amendments to the Department’s regulations concerning code-share arrangements that may be 

adopted. Notwithstanding any provisions in the contract between the carriers, our approval here is 

expressly conditioned upon the requirements that the subject foreign air transportation be sold in the 

name of the carrier holding out such service in the computer reservation systems and elsewhere; that the 

carrier selling such transportation (i.e., the carrier shown on the ticket) accept responsibility for the 

entirety of the code-share journey for all obligations established in its contract of carriage with the 

passenger; and that the passenger liability of the operating carrier be unaffected;

(d) The authority granted here is specifically conditioned so that neither Alaska nor Cathay shall give any 

force or effect to any contractual provisions between themselves that are contrary to these conditions;

(e) We may amend, modify, or revoke the authority granted at any time without hearing at our discretion.

Persons entitled to petition the Department for review of this action under the Department’s regulations, 

14 CFR §385.30, should file their petitions within seven days of the date of this action. This action is 

effective immediately, and the filing of a petition for review will not alter its effectiveness.

 1 We expect this notification to be received within 10 days of such non-effectiveness or of such decision.