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### UNIFORM YANKEE JULIET AIR INC. Docket OST-2005-21116 for an exemptionpursuantto 49 U.S.C. 

### §40109(c) (Canada-U.S. Scheduled and Charter Service)



### APPLICATION OF UNIFORM YANKEE JULIETAIRINC. FORRENEWAL OFAN EXEMPTION Communications withrespectto this document shouldbe sent to: Ian A. McDougall, President 

### UNIFORM YANKEE JULIETAIR INC. 2450 Derry Road East Mississauga, Ontario L5S 1B2 (905) 405-8545 (tel.) (905) 405-9163 (fax) ianmcd@delta-mike.com

September 19, 2011 Nathaniel P. Breed, Jr. DavidM. Endersbee 

### ZUCKERT SCOUTT & 

### RASENBERGER, L.L.P. 888 17th Street, NW Suite 700 Washington, D.C. 20006-3309 (202) 973-7919 (tel.) (202) 342-0683 (fax) npbreed@zsrlaw.com dmendersbee@zsrlaw.com Attorneys for 

### UNIFORM YANKEE JULIETAIRINC.

NOTICE: Any interested person may file an Answer supportingoropposing this Application. Such Answers mustbe filed in the DOT's Docket Section and served on all persons named on the attached ServiceList. Answers to thisApplication are due to be filed on October4, 2011.

### Application of BEFORE THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY WASHINGTON, D.C.

UNIFORM YANKEE JULIET AIR INC. Docket OST-2005-21116 for an exemption pursuant to 49 U.S.C. §40109(c) (Canada-U.S. Scheduled and Charter Service) September 19, 2011 APPLICATION OF UNIFORM YANKEE JULIET AIR INC. FORRENEWAL OF AN EXEMPTION Uniform Yankee JulietAirInc. ("UYJ Air") hereby applies, pursuantto 49 U.S.C. §40109 and Subpart C ofthe Procedural Regulations ofthe Department of Transportation (the "Department" or "DOT"), for renewal ofits temporary exemption from 49 U.S.C §41301 authorizing UYJ Airto perform transborder scheduled and charter flights carryingpersons, property and mail between any point orpoints in Canada and any point orpoints in the United States pursuantto the February 1995 Bilateral Air Transport Services Agreementbetween Canada and the United States, as amended (the "1995 Agreement"). The current exemption authority issued to UYJ Airwas most recently granted by Notice ofAction Taken, issued on September28, 2009. UYJ Airrequests that the foregoing authority be granted for a period oftwo years.

### Application ofUYJ Air for Renewal ofan Exemption (U.S.-Canada)

In accordance with Section 302.303 and Section 211.20 ofthe Department's Regulations, UYJ Air submits the following information in support ofthis renewal application: 1. Existing Authority and Operations. UYJ Air is a Canadian air carrier based in Mississauga, Ontario, and is presently engaged in operating scheduled and charter airtransportation within Canada, and between Canada and points in the United States, and between Canada and points in Third Countries. UYJ Air currently operates an aircraft fleet consisting oftwo 8-passenger Learjet 45 aircraft, one 8-passenger Cessna Citation X Model C750 aircraft, one 7- passengerLearjet 35A aircraft, and one 7-passenger Cessna421C Golden Eagle multienginepiston aircraft. All five ofthe foregoing aircraft are registered in Canada. In addition to its current U.S. DOTExemption authority, UYJ Airholds aPart 129 Foreign Air Carrier Certificate and Operations Specifications issued to it by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration ("FAA") on or about October 31, 2005. In addition, UYJ Airholds Canadian Transportation Agency International LicenseNo. 050090, issued on July 26, 2005, and Transport Canada Air Operator Certificate No. 9785, effective December 31, 2002. The foregoing certificates and exemption authority authorize UYJ Airto operate scheduled and charter international air transportation between all points in Canada and all points in the United States.

### Application ofUYJ Air for Renewal ofan Exemption (U.S.-Canada)

2. Ownership, Citizenship and Fitness. There has been no material change in UYJ Air's ownership, board ofdirectors, executive management and key operations managementpersonnel, all ofwhom are citizens ofCanada or are landed immigrants in Canada. During that same time period, there has been no material adverse change in UYJ Air's financial condition, scope and type ofoperations, compliance disposition history or safetyrecord. 3. Fitness and Public Interest. UYJ Air submits thatthe renewal ofits existing exemption authority at issue is consistent with the public interest and Departmentprecedent. UYJ Airhas been found by the Departmentto be fit, willing and able to properlyperform the foreign air transportation applied for herein and to conform to theprovisions ofthe Federal Aviation Statutes and the rules, regulations and requirements ofthe Departmentthereunder. For the reasons stated above, the foreign air transportation which UYJ Airproposes to perform is presumptively consistent with the public interest. 4. Applicable Bilateral Agreement and 5th Freedom Reciprocity. As the Department determined in its September 28, 2009 Notice ofAction Taken in this proceeding, the exemption authority at issue is consistent with the February 1995 BilateralAirTransport Services Agreement between Canada and the United States, as amended. On July 6, 2011, the Canadian Transportation Agency filed, in DOTDocket OST-2006-24269, a statement ofthe policy ofthe Canadian Government regarding the granting of5th freedom chartertraffic rights to U.S. air carriers on the basis ofreciprocity

### Application ofUYJAir for Renewal ofan Exemption (U.S.-Canada)

on the part ofthe United States in granting such 5th freedom charter traffic rights to Canadian air carriers. 5. Duration ofRenewal. UYJ Airrequests that the exemption authority at issue be renewed for aperiod of two years. Grant ofatwo-yearrenewal is consistent with the policy and practice ofthe Department in renewing exemption authority granted to foreign air carriers in similar

cases. 6. Automatic Extension. UYJ Airhereby invokes and relies upon the provisions ofSection 558(c) ofthe Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. §558(c), as implemented by Part 377 ofthe Department's Special Regulations (14 C.F.R. Part 377), to continue in effect UYJ Air's
currenttemporary exemption authority to provide scheduled and charter foreign air transportation between Canada and the United States until the Department makes a final determination ofthis renewal application. In accordance with Section 377.10(c)(3) ofthe DOT's Special Regulations, this renewal application is being filed priorto the expiration date ofthe temporary authority at issue.Application ofUYJ Air for Renewal ofan Exemption (U.S.-Canada) 

### WHEREFORE, Uniform Yankee Juliet AirInc. respectfully requests the Department to issue an Order orNotice ofAction Taken renewing UYJ Air's existing exemption from 49 U.S.C. §41301 to authorize UYJ Airto continue to provide scheduled and charter foreign air transportation ofpersons, property and mail between points in Canada andpoints in the United States, as requested in this application.

Washington, D.C. September 19, 2011 Respectfully submitted,

David M. Enderbsee 

### ZUCKERT SCOUTT & 

### RASENBERGER, L.L.P. Attorneys for 

### UNIFORM YANKEE JULIET AIR INC.CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE Ihereby certify that on this 19'h day ofSeptember 20II, a copy ofthe foregoing Application ofUniform Yankee Juliet Air Inc. for Renewal ofExemption was served by e-mail on the following: Stephen J. Morrissey Managing Director, International and Regulatory Affairs United Air Lines 1025 Connecticut Avenue, N.W. Suite 1210 Washington, DC 20036 Steve.morrissey@united.com R. Bruce Keiner, Jr. Lorraine B. Halloway Counsel for Continental Airlines Crowell & Moring 1001 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20004 rbkeiner@crowell.com Lhalloway@crowell.com Dan Weiss Continental Airlines, Inc. Government Affairs-8th Floor 1600 Smith Street Dept. HQSGV Houston, TX 77002 dan.weiss@coair.com Anita Mosner JenniferNowak Counsel for United Parcel Service Holland & Knight 2099 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Suite 100 Washington, D.C. 20006 Anita.mosner@hklaw.com Jennifer.nowak@hklaw.com Alexander VanDerBellen JeffMorgan Sametta C. Barnett Delta Air Lines 1212 New York Avenue, NW Suite 200 Washington, D.C. 20005 Sascha.vanderbellen@delta.com sametta.c.barnett@delta.com Jeff.morgan@delta.com Carl B. Nelson, Jr. Associate General Counsel American Airlines, Inc. I I0I Seventeenth Street, N.W. Suite 600 Washington, D.C. 20036 carl.nelson@aa.com

John L. Richardson Counsel for Amerijet International John L. Richardson, P.L.L.C. 555 13th Street, N.W. Suite 420 West Washington, D.C. 20004 jrichardson@johnlrichardson.com

John Palo Vice President, Planning Military and Government Evergreen International Airlines, Inc. 3850 Three Mile Lane McMinnville, OR 97128 john.palo@evergreenairlines.com charters@evergreenairlines.com

Malcolm L. Benge Counsel for World Airways and North American Airlines Zuckert, Scoutt & Rasenberger, L.L.P. 888 Seventeenth Street, N.W. Suite 700 Washington, DC 20006 mlbenge@zsrlaw.com Angeline Garbuzinski Legal and Regulatory Affairs Federal Express Corporation 3620 Hacks Cross Road Building B, 3'd Floor Memphis, TN 38125 anbird@fedex.comPierre Murphy Counsel for Brendan Airways, L.L.C. d/b/a USA 3000 1200 New Hampshire Avenue, N.W. Suite 590 Washington, D.C. 20036-6802 pmurphy@lopmurphy.com

Thomas E. Fosko Vice President Air Transport International LLC 2800 Cantrell Road Little Rock, AR 72202 tom.fosko@airtransport.cc

Howard Kass Managing Director & Associate General Counsel US Airways 1401 H Street, N.W. Suite 1075 Washington, D.C. 20006 howard_ kass@usairways.com

Aaron Goerlich Counsel for Allegiant Air and Ryan International Airlines Garofalo Goerlich Hainbach PC 1200 New Hampshire Avenue NW Suite 800 Washington, D.C. 20036-6802 agoerlich@ggh-airlaw.com

Robert E. Cohn Counsel for Frontier Airlines Hogan Lovells 555 13th Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20004 robert.cohn@hoganlovells.com

Robert P. Silverberg Jeffrey Johnson Counsel for ABX Air Silverberg, Goldman & Bikoff, L.L.P. 1101 30th Street, N.W. Suite 120 Washington, D.C. 20007 rsi1verberg@sgbdc.com jjohnson@sgbdc.com

2 Michael F. Goldman Counsel for Capital Cargo International Airlines Silverberg, Goldman & Bikoff, L.L.P. 1101 30th Street, N.W. Suite 120 Washington, D.C. 20007 mgoldman@sgbdc.com

MarshallS. Sinick Counsel for Alaska Airlines and Florida West International Airways Squire, Sanders & Dempsey 1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Suite 500 Washington, D.C. 20004 msinick@ssd.com Stephen H. Lachter Counsel for Astar Air Cargo Lachter & Clements LLP 1150 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Ste. 900 Washington, DC 20036 slachter@lachter-clements.com

Russell E. Pommer Associate General Counsel and

Director ofRegulatory Affairs Atlas Air, Inc. 1747 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Suite 875 Washington, D.C 20006 rpommer@atlasair.com

Mark W. Atwood Counsel for Kalitta Air and XtraAirways Cozen O'Connor Army Navy Building I627 I Street, NW Suite 1100 Washington, D.C. 20006 matwood@cozen.com ldunn@xtraairways.com

Jonathan B. Hill Counsel for Hawaiian Airlines and JetBlue Dow Lohnes 1200 New Hampshire Avenue, N.W. Suite 800 Washington, DC 20036-6802 jhill@dowlohnesJohn S. Fredericksen Vice President and General Counsel MN Airlines, LLC dba Sun Country Airlines 1300 Mendota Heights Road Mendota Heights, MN 55120 john.fredericksen@suncountry.com

Joanne W. Young Counsel for Spirit Airlines Kirstein & Young PLLC 1001 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W. Suite 600 South Washington, DC 20004 jyoung@yklaw.com

William C. Evans John R. Mietus, Jr. Counsel for Centurion Air Cargo and Trade Winds Airlines 670I Democracy Blvd. Suite 300 Bethesda, MD 20817 bill@mietuslaw.com john@mietuslaw.com Stephen A. Alterman Counsel for Horizon Air Meyers & Alterman 1220 Nineteenth Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036 salterman@cargoair.org Eric Christensen Vice President, Planning Skywest Airlines 444 S. River Road St. George, UT 84770 echristensen@skywest.com Kevin Montgomery Peter Beckett Polar Air Cargo, Inc. 1747 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Suite 875 Washington, D.C 20006 kevin.montgomery@ polaraircargo.com peter.beckett@polaraircargo.com

3 Thomas A. Gillies ChiefOperating Officer Southern Air Inc. 117 Glover Ave. Norwalk, CT 06850 tgillies@southemair.com Don H. Hainbach Jason E. Maddux Counsel for WestJet Garofalo Goerlich Hainbach PC 1200 New Hampshire Avenue NW Suite 800 Washington, D.C. 20036-6802 dhainbach@ggh-airlaw.com jmaddux@ggh-airlaw.com Robert J. Finamore Analyst Room W-86-433 Department ofTransportation 1200 New Jersey Avenue, S.E. Washington, DC 20590 Robert.finamore@dot.gov John M. Allen Director Flight Standards Service Federal Aviation Administration 800 Independence Avenue, S.W. Room 821 Washington, D.C. 20591 john.allen@faa.gov

David M. Endersbee