U.S. Department of Transportation Office of the Secretary of Transportation

DEPARTMENT ACTION ON APPLICATION IN DOCKET DOT

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(Filed March 27, 2014 )

Joint a pplic ation of Alaska Airlines, Inc. (Alaska) and Horizo n Air Industries, Inc. (Horizon ) f or amended statement s of authorization to display the “ KE ” designator
code of Korean Air Lines Co., Ltd. (Korean) on flights operated by Alaska and
Horizon (i) between points in the United States; and (ii) between points i n the Unite d
States and Canada

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The j oint a pplicants also request 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 15 , 2014

_________________________________ Director, Office of International Aviation

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 joint applicants state t hat flights displaying the “KE” code will connect with Korean’s flights arriving at Korean’s North American gateways.The Statement s of Authorization granted are subject to the following conditions:

(a) The statement of authorization for Alaska w ill remain in effect only as long as (i) Alaska and Korean
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

- sha re operations remains in effect;

(b) The statement of authorization for Horizon w ill remain in effect only as long as (i) Horizon and

Korean 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 ef fect;

(c ) Alaska and/or Horizon

, as ap propriate, and/or Korean 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- share services are operated is no longer in effect or if the carriers decide to cease operating all or a portion of the approved code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 s ervices. Such notice
should be filed in Docket DOT

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( 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 i n 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 carri age 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 Alaska , Ho rizon

, nor Korean
shall g ive any force or effect to any contractual provi sions between themselves that a re contrary to these conditions;

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) We may amend, modify, or revoke the authority granted at any time wi thout hearing at our discretion.

Persons entitled to petition the Department for review of this action under the Depa rtment’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.