U.S. Department of 

Transportation 

Office of the Secretary 

of Transportation 

DEPARTMENT ACTION ON APPLICATION IN 

DOCKET DOT -OST -2015-0106 

(filed May 19, 2015) 

Application of Etihad Airways P.J.S.C. (Etihad) for a blanket statement of authorization 

under 14 CFR Part 212 for an indefinite period to permit it to display, on a blind sector basis, 

the (PK*) designator code of Pakistan International Airlines Corporation (PIA) on any 

current or future U.S.-UAE services operated by Etihad, for the purposes of carrying PIA's 

traffic between Pakistan and the United States.1 

The applicant also requests a waiver of the 45-day advance filing requirement under 14 CFR 

Part 212.2 

Approved under assigned authority (14 CFR § 385.13). 

Date of Action: June 10, 2015 

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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:/ I lwww .regulations.gov 

1 Etihad states that it will initially display the (PK*) designator code of PIA on Etihad flights between Abu Dhabi 

(AUH) on the one hand, and New York (JFK); Chicago (ORD); Washington, D.C. (lAD); Los Angeles (LAX); San 

Francisco (SFO); and Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW), on the other hand. 2 The Department is acting on the applicant's request prior to the expiration of the 45-day advance filing requirement 

with the consent of all parties served. 
The code-share operations authorized here are subject to the following conditions: 

(a) The statement of authorization will remain in effect only as long as (i) Etihad and PIA 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) Etihad and/or PIA must promptly notify the Department if the code-share agreement providing for the 

code-share operations is no longer effective or the carriers decide to cease operating any or all of the 

approved code-share services. Such notice should be filed in Docket DOT-OST-2015-0106.1 

(c) Etihad and/or PIA must notify the Department no later than 30 days before they begin any new codeshare service under the code-share services authorized here. Such notice shall identify the market( s) to be 

served and the date on which the services will begin. Such notices shall be filed in Docket DOT-OST-2015-

0106.2 

(d) 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 computer reservation systems and elsewhere; that the carrier selling such 

transportation (i.e., the carrier shown on the ticket) accept responsibility for the entirety ofthe 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 .. 

(e) The authority granted here is specifically conditioned so that neither Etihad nor PIA shall give any force 

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

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

1 We expect this notification to be received within ten (10) days after such non-effectiveness or of such decision. 2 Pursuant to the Department's Notice on the Matter of Blanket Notification of Code-Share Service to Open Skies 

Partners and Points, dated February 9, 2009, Etihad provides in its application blanket notification of its intent to 

display the (PK *) code on code-share services to open skies points. Etihad state that it agrees to notifY the Department 

no later than 30 days before commencing any code-share service to non-open skies points.